UUA Top Stories https://www.uua.org/ Top Stories from the Unitarian Universalist Association en https://www.uua.org/files/styles/max_992x992/public/logos/uua_logo_gradient_on_white.png?itok=zTEG1IXI UUA Top Stories https://www.uua.org/ Being Good Family https://www.uua.org/braverwiser/being-good-family Alt text: On a desk or table, a pair of folded eyeglasses rests on sheets of paper. A person's forearm and hand are lightly resting on the desk behind the glasses.

Tucker Culbertson

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Like gravity, my ancestors are ubiquitous and mysterious. Like history, they are not past but present. Like the past, they are not dead nor even past.
]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2026 02:36:15 -0400 Tucker Culbertson https://www.uua.org/braverwiser/being-good-family Interfaith Groups Can Sue Trump Administration to Stop Immigration Arrests at Houses of Worship, Federal Court Rules https://www.uuworld.org/articles/immigration-houses-worship-lawsuit-ice © Chris Northcross/UUA

Elaine McArdle

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The Unitarian Universalist Association, among the plaintiffs, pledges to continue its “faithful dissent against such oppression.”
]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400 Elaine McArdle https://www.uuworld.org/articles/immigration-houses-worship-lawsuit-ice Embodied Scriptures https://www.uua.org/braverwiser/embodied-scriptures A close-up of two Black people's intertwined hands. The two people appear to be sitting across from each other. The hand resting protectively on top appears to be an older person, and the hands being nestled have decorated nails.

Melissa Jeter

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I am the “we” of the narratives I still do not know about my ancestors.
]]> Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:56:43 -0400 Melissa Jeter https://www.uua.org/braverwiser/embodied-scriptures Before You Gather Those Signatures...: A New Early Review Opportunity for GA 2027 Business! https://www.uua.org/uuagovernance/blog/new-early-review-opportunity-ga-2027-business image with red background and white, faded chalice which reads in white letters, "Early Opportunity for General Assembly 2027 Business Review"

Kimberly Quinn Johnson 

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Bill Young

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The new church year is getting underway and that means General Assembly (GA) 2027 is already on the horizon.Maybe there’s an issue your congregation has been talking about. Maybe you’ve had an idea for strengthening our Association. Maybe you’re wondering whether a change to the UUA bylaws
]]> Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:00:47 -0400 Kimberly Quinn Johnson , Bill Young https://www.uua.org/uuagovernance/blog/new-early-review-opportunity-ga-2027-business Unfinished Ground https://www.uua.org/braverwiser/unfinished-ground Seen from above, a person plunges both hands and forearms onto a piece of fabric in a plant pot or bucket, as if tamping down soil. There's soil and plant matter on the floor around the pot.

Stacy Duffy

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May we tend both the soil beneath us and the fertile, unfinished ground within ourselves.
]]> Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:55:55 -0400 Stacy Duffy https://www.uua.org/braverwiser/unfinished-ground Before You Gather Those Signatures...: A New Early Review Opportunity for GA 2027 Business! https://www.uua.org/uuagovernance/blog/new-early-review-opportunity-ga2027-business image with red background and white, faded chalice which reads in white letters, "Early Opportunity for General Assembly 2027 Business Review"

Bill Young

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Kimberly Quinn Johnson 

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The new church year is getting underway and that means General Assembly (GA) 2027 is already on the horizon.Maybe there’s an issue your congregation has been talking about. Maybe you’ve had an idea for strengthening our Association. Maybe you’re wondering whether a change to the UUA bylaws
]]> Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:29:13 -0400 Bill Young, Kimberly Quinn Johnson  https://www.uua.org/uuagovernance/blog/new-early-review-opportunity-ga2027-business Unitarian Universalist Association Releases Historic Statement on Religious Practice of Faithful Dissent, Noncompliance, and Civil Disobedience https://www.uua.org/pressroom/press-releases/civil-disobedience-statement-2026 A crowd stands in front of a chain link fence at the Delaney Hall Detention Center. There are red, orange, and yellow ribbons festooned to the fence. Rev. Dr. Sofia Betancourt is standing in the middle of the crowd, wearing a green shirt and clergy collar.
The UUA releases an historic statement asserting that civil disobedience and faithful dissent from oppressive policies and actions are fundamental practices of the Unitarian Universalist (UU) faith tradition.
]]> Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0400 https://www.uua.org/pressroom/press-releases/civil-disobedience-statement-2026 Brave New Patterns https://www.uua.org/braverwiser/brave-new-patterns A white woman with short hair, lying down with eyes closed, is viewed from above. Around her head on the floor are arranged dozens of black jigsaw puzzle pieces in expanding circles.

Ann Stillwater

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Learning about my neurodiversity has been a huge relief.
]]> Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:54:37 -0400 Ann Stillwater https://www.uua.org/braverwiser/brave-new-patterns UUA Issues Historic Statement on Faithful Dissent and Civil Disobedience https://www.uuworld.org/articles/sara-lawall-civil-disobedience-unitarian-universalism © Kyle Pfannenstiel/Idaho Capital Sun

Sara LaWall

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After her arrest during a protest of anti-trans legislation, Rev. Sara LaWall explains why civil disobedience is deeply rooted in her UU faith.
]]> Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:00:00 -0400 Sara LaWall https://www.uuworld.org/articles/sara-lawall-civil-disobedience-unitarian-universalism Permission to Grieve https://www.uua.org/braverwiser/permission-grieve A Black man with a salt-and-pepper beard sits on a leather couch. He's using both hands to cradle the head and back of a brown pit bull terrier, and nuzzling its face, as the dog gazes happily into the distance.

JeKaren Bell

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Grief does not measure itself by species.
]]> Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:34:41 -0400 JeKaren Bell https://www.uua.org/braverwiser/permission-grieve