Most UU communities do this simple ritual every week. Will this UU staple repeat its 2016 championship as Most UU Thing Ever, or will our anti-institutional streak topple it?

I have so many camp and youth con shirts, many of them in tie-dye, that my non-UU friends sometimes wonder if we double as Grateful Dead fanatics. Well . . .

They each had three names and big ideas and no list of Famous Unitarian Universalists would be complete without a bunch of ’em: William Ellery Channing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Theodore (Dare To Be Different) Parker . . . 

We may not be able to agree about God or church architecture, but we’re pretty clear that it’s important to “let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”

As a kid, I wondered why some of the adults at church showed up for the forum but then left before worship. I’m more the worship type—but there’s more than one way to be UU!

Approximately 172.63 percent of Unitarian Universalists shared the Rev. Wayne Arnason’s moving benediction on social media during or right after Election Day.

My dream is one day to publish a “UU GA Fashion Guide” highlighting the sock-and-sandal combos, fanny packs, and terrific hats we wear to our annual convention. The worship, preaching, and music are SO good, though.

Pete Seeger and all the other UU folk singers whose interactive songs—like “If I Had a Hammer” or Fred Small’s “Everything Possible”—have made so many worships so memorable.

Martha and Waitstill Sharps’ mission to rescue refugees from the Nazis—the subject of Ken Burns’s documentary—was one of our faith’s finest hours. UU children know that our flaming chalice symbol comes from these times as well.

Anytime I see someone at a local concert clapping off-beat, I’m tempted to ask them, “So, which UU church do you go to?”

Many black UUs and other UUs of color argue the late 1960s hold painful and revealing truths about our faith. (Here’s one introduction to the conflict that drove many black UUs away in the 1970s.) Black Lives of UU helps us learn from those mistakes in the Black Lives Matter era.

If it’s not Sunday morning, you can find your fellow UUs at a show—or quite possibly in the show!

Few know about one of the most remarkable parts of our faith’s history: the women who served, officially and unofficially, as clergy in the nineteenth century—and built tremendous communities. Cynthia Grant Tucker’s book Prophetic Sisterhood tells their stories.

Our very own seven-day winter holiday honors a different UU Principle each night.

Kimberly French wrote about the 2016 runner-up: “No other song, no other prayer, no other piece of liturgy is so well known and loved in Unitarian Universalism as ‘Spirit of Life’ by Carolyn McDade.”

And squeeze after!

Most UU communities do this simple ritual every week. Will this UU staple repeat its 2016 championship as Most UU Thing Ever, or will our anti-institutional streak topple it?

They each had three names and big ideas and no list of Famous Unitarian Universalists would be complete without a bunch of ’em: William Ellery Channing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Theodore (Dare To Be Different) Parker . . . 

Approximately 172.63 percent of Unitarian Universalists shared the Rev. Wayne Arnason’s moving benediction on social media during or right after Election Day.

My dream is one day to publish a “UU GA Fashion Guide” highlighting the sock-and-sandal combos, fanny packs, and terrific hats we wear to our annual convention. The worship, preaching, and music are SO good, though.

Martha and Waitstill Sharps’ mission to rescue refugees from the Nazis—the subject of Ken Burns’s documentary—was one of our faith’s finest hours. UU children know that our flaming chalice symbol comes from these times as well.

Many black UUs and other UUs of color argue the late 1960s hold painful and revealing truths about our faith. (Here’s one introduction to the conflict that drove many black UUs away in the 1970s.) Black Lives of UU helps us learn from those mistakes in the Black Lives Matter era.

Our very own seven-day winter holiday honors a different UU Principle each night.

Kimberly French wrote about the 2016 runner-up: “No other song, no other prayer, no other piece of liturgy is so well known and loved in Unitarian Universalism as ‘Spirit of Life’ by Carolyn McDade.”

Most UU communities do this simple ritual every week. Will this UU staple repeat its 2016 championship as Most UU Thing Ever, or will our anti-institutional streak topple it?

My dream is one day to publish a “UU GA Fashion Guide” highlighting the sock-and-sandal combos, fanny packs, and terrific hats we wear to our annual convention. The worship, preaching, and music are SO good, though.

Many black UUs and other UUs of color argue the late 1960s hold painful and revealing truths about our faith. (Here’s one introduction to the conflict that drove many black UUs away in the 1970s.) Black Lives of UU helps us learn from those mistakes in the Black Lives Matter era.

Kimberly French wrote about the 2016 runner-up: “No other song, no other prayer, no other piece of liturgy is so well known and loved in Unitarian Universalism as ‘Spirit of Life’ by Carolyn McDade.”

Most UU communities do this simple ritual every week. Will this UU staple repeat its 2016 championship as Most UU Thing Ever, or will our anti-institutional streak topple it?

Kimberly French wrote about the 2016 runner-up: “No other song, no other prayer, no other piece of liturgy is so well known and loved in Unitarian Universalism as ‘Spirit of Life’ by Carolyn McDade.”