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Unitarian Universalist Top Stories

• Watch GA 2008 on Streaming Media
  Can't make it to General Assembly? Read reports and watch Plenary, the Ware Lecture and more via streaming media!  (Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:00:00 EST)
  
  

• Unitarian Universalist Congregations in California Celebrate Equal Marriage
  As California welcomes the legalization of same-sex marriages, Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregations across the state are joyfully hosting weddings.  (Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:45:00 EST)
  
  

• Equal Marriage Becomes Law in California
  With tears of celebration, same-sex couples began to experience the joy of civil marriage in California on June 17, 2008. Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregations across the state joined in the celebration at City and Town clerk's offices, church properties, and other wedding locations.  (Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:00:00 EST)
  
  

• UUA Prairie Star and Heartland Districts Launch Flood Relief Funds
  In the aftermath of devastating floods, the Unitarian Universalist Association Prairie Star and Heartland Districts have announced the launch of individual district relief funds to provide assistance to Unitarian Universalists in Indiana and Iowa.  (Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:30:00 EST)
  
  

• Watch General Assembly on Streaming Media!
  General Assembly (GA) can come to your desktop or laptop, via streaming media! Our GA web staff will bring more than twenty hours of GA to you.  (Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:30:00 EST)
  
  

• Crossing Borders: An Interfaith Visit to Israel and Palestine
  As a member of an Interfaith Compassionate Listening Delegation, I was in the Muslim Quarter of Old Jerusalem.  (Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:00:00 EST)
  
  

• General Assembly is Coming!
  In addition to business sessions (Plenary), this year's General Assembly program comprises over three hundred workshops, lectures, and worship opportunities over the five days of GA.  (Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:00:00 EST)
  
  

• Spring Into Summer with Mary Oliver's "Red Bird"!
  Red Bird, acclaimed poet Mary Oliver's twelfth book of poetry, makes for perfect late spring/early summer reading!  (Fri, 23 May 2008 10:30:00 EST)
  
  

• UUA President Celebrates California Supreme Court Ruling
  Unitarian Universalist Association President William G. Sinkford today applauded the ruling of the California Supreme Court and its historic support of marriage equality.  (Thu, 15 May 2008 15:45:00 EST)
  
  

• Forrest Church Presented With Roosevelt Four Freedoms Award
  Rev. Forrest Church, Minister of Public Theology at All Souls Church Unitarian in New York City, was presented with the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Freedom Medal, conferred by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, on April 9, 2008.  (Mon, 12 May 2008 15:30:00 EST)
  
  

• UU Service Committee and UUA Partner to Launch Myanmar Cyclone Relief Fund
  The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee and the Unitarian Universalist Association have joined to launch a humanitarian relief fund to help survivors of the recent Myanmar cyclone.  (Tue, 06 May 2008 10:45:00 EST)
  
  

• UUA President Addresses Immigrant Rights May Day Rally
  In support of immigrants' rights, thousands of immigrants and their interfaith allies marched, rallied, and prayed around the country in dozens of cities on May 1st. In Chelsea, Massachusetts, Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) President William G. Sinkford spoke at a rally in support of the immigrant community along with other secular and religious leaders who support immigrants' rights.  (Fri, 02 May 2008 14:45:00 EST)
  
  

• Resources for UU Congregations: The Flower Communion
  Celebrating Flower Communion is an excellent opportunity for UU congregations to express their commitment to our Sixth Principle: We Covenant to Affirm and Promote the Goal of World Community with Peace, Liberty and Justice for All.  (Thu, 01 May 2008 10:30:00 EST)
  
  

• UUA Announces Important Election Year Resources
  The Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (UUA) is pleased to announce two important resources to help congregations carry out effective, nonpartisan electoral activities in 2008 and beyond.  (Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:30:00 EST)
  
  

• Green Sanctuary Program to be Managed by UUA Beginning July 1
  Staring this July, the UU Ministry for Earth's successful Green Sanctuary Program will start to be managed by the UUA as a part of their Congregational Services program.  (Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:30:00 EST)
  
  

• 2007 Melcher Book Award Presented to Kate Braestrup for "Here If You Need M
  Rev. Kate Braestrup accepted the Unitarian Universalist Association’s (UUA) Frederic G. Melcher Book Award on April 16, 2008, for her memoir Here If You Need Me.  (Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:30:00 EST)
  
  

• UUA Treasurer Discusses Socially Responsible Investing and Environmental St
  UUA Treasurer Tim Brennan traveled to New York City on Feb. 14 to attend the Investor Summit on Climate Risk.This year's meeting attracted hundreds of investors and culminated in the proposal of a climate action plan endorsed by 49 different organizations, including the UUA.  (Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:00:00 EST)
  
  

• First Emerson UUA Chair of Divinity Appointed at Harvard Divinity School
  The theologian and historian Daniel Patrick McKanan has been named the inaugural incumbent of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Chair of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School.  (Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:30:00 EST)
  
  

• Earth Day 2008: Celebrate and Advocate!
  The UUA, the UU Service Committee, UU Ministry for Earth, and others are joining together to celebrate Earth Day Sunday—April 20th—in our congregations.  (Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:15:00 EST)
  
  

• UUA Debuts Second Phase of National Marketing Campaign
  The UUA has begun a second phase of national advertising with the April 14 edition (on newsstands April 4) of TIME Magazine, the most widely read news magazine in the United States.  (Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:15:00 EST)
  
  

• A Long Overdue Conversation on Race
  Obama's speech, by naming the honest concerns and fears on both sides of the racial divide, presents us with that rarest of opportunities, an invitation to re-engage with an issue many people would prefer to ignore.  (Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:15:00 EST)
  
  

• A Good Day for Peace: UUs Engage in Civil Disobedience to Protest War
  More than 200 people, including nearly 100 UUs from several Connecticut churches, gathered in front of the federal building in Hartford to demonstrate their opposition to the war in Iraq. 5 individuals, including 2 members of the Unitarian Society of New Haven and their minister, Kathleen McTigue, were arrested for first degree disorderly conduct and trespassing when they refused to move away from the doors of the building.  (Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:15:00 EST)
  
  

• Witnessing for Peace: A Pastoral Letter from Rev. William G. Sinkford
  It has been 5 long years of war and occupation in Iraq. Many of you, like me, have been praying and protesting this war, since before it began. We like to see ourselves as innocent. We like to see ourselves as fair, compassionate and kind. We like to see ourselves as freedom-loving and freedom-promoting. The Iraq war has stripped that self-image away from us.  (Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:45:00 EST)
  
  

• Washington, DC, Training Focuses on Sexuality Education, Advocacy
  The UUA's Washington Office for Advocacy is preparing for the fourth annual Sexuality Education and Advocacy Training (SEAT).  (Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:00:00 EST)
  
  

• Sinkford Joins UUs in Interfaith Witness for Peace
  UUA President William G. Sinkford and several hundred Unitarian Universalists came together in Washington on Friday, March 7, to participate in an Interfaith Witness for Peace.  (Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:15:00 EST)
  
  

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