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/ The Faithful Work of Health Plan Governance https://www.uua.org/uuagovernance/blog/faithful-work-health-plan-governance Image in red and white with a red stripe on the right side with circles containing the UUA chalice logo, a stethoscope in the shape of a heart, and a prescription pad. The text reads, "The Faithful Work of Heal Plan Governance" and "A Governance Blog Post by Co-Financial Advisor Chris Chapel" and "tinyurl.com/blog-health-plan"

Chris Chepel

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Rising UUA Health Plan premiums are understandably causing concern across our congregations. But what’s driving these increases, and what can we do about them?
]]> Fri, 30 Oct 2026 11:19:25 -0400 Chris Chepel https://www.uua.org/uuagovernance/blog/faithful-work-health-plan-governance Congregational Salary Program: Creating Opportunities for All to Thrive https://www.uua.org/leaderlab/congregational-salary Colorful scarf draped around thick white candle with an artistic chalice flame in the background

Jan Gartner

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The UUA offers a Congregational Salary Program as a service to congregational leaders. Our approach emphasizes process and values, with recommended salary ranges provided for six job levels in four congregational size profiles.
]]> Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:30:00 -0400 Jan Gartner https://www.uua.org/leaderlab/congregational-salary By Remembering, We Love https://www.uua.org/braverwiser/remembering-we-love alt text: In a chapel or funeral home, six adults form a cluster, their backs turned toward the camera. They have their arms around each other and are focused on an object out of view, implied to be a casket.

Kim Mason

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All Souls is a day to remember the dead, and by remembering, say: this life mattered.
]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:50:23 -0400 Kim Mason https://www.uua.org/braverwiser/remembering-we-love 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 Religious Progressives in the South Endure Thanks to Resilient Networks of Safety and Care https://www.uuworld.org/articles/berry-street-essay-jami-yandle © Dave Adamson/Unsplash

Jami A. Yandle

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Football, Southern organizing, and trans communities can teach us about how interconnectedness keeps people alive.
]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0400 Jami A. Yandle https://www.uuworld.org/articles/berry-street-essay-jami-yandle 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