Spring 2006, Vol.XX No.1

Features

Welcome to the Ecozoic Era
Meet Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow, two evangelists of cosmic evolution.
By Amy Hassinger in Ideas

Seeds of opportunity
Community investing brings economic opportunities to low-income Americans—and Unitarian Universalist congregations are joining in to help.
By Dorothy May Emerson in Life

Gloucester's revival
How the oldest Universalist church in America came back to life.
By Jane Greer in Life

Departments

The land ethic
We are citizens in an interdependent community of life.
By Aldo Leopold in Opening words

Behind the bylines, real people
How we find our writers.
By Tom Stites in From the editor

Open our plentiful granaries
The impoverished people of Goz Beida welcomed refugees from Darfur and showed me what radical hospitality really looks like.
By William G. Sinkford in Our calling

Mailbox, Spring 2006
What our readers tell us.
By Jane Greer in Letters

Letters, Spring 2006
Readers respond to the Winter 2005 issue.
in Letters

Hands-on environmentalism
Landowners, environmentalists, and policymakers worked together to preserve a bear's habitat.
By Brent Haglund in Forum

Looking for ways to serve youth better
Featured online in another form:
Looking for ways to serve youth better
Congregational and denominational youth programs under review.
By Donald E. Skinner in Congregational life

Northernmost UU congregation
New building puts Alaska congregation 'on the map.'
By Jane Greer in Congregational life

A stranger in my own hometown
There's a problem with thinking of Unitarian Universalists as exiles from other religions: What about people who grew up UU?
By Barbara Wells ten Hove in Reflections

Relics from the forbidden fruit
Artist's assemblages honor nature.
By Shaw Stuart and Kenneth Sutton in Reflections

Children of Shoah
Symbolic richness in mixed media.
By Constance Demuth Berg and Sonja L. Cohen in Reflections

'Sing with us'
A chance encounter in a hotel lobby leads to new understanding.
By Jason Shelton in Reflections

Flowering
Grow a life here.
By Linda Buckmaster in Reflections

Kingfisher
Feeding the birds.
By Lee Robinson in Reflections

In my church
The genesis of a ritual.
By Karen Lee Shelley in Reflections

Record giving for disaster victims
Tsunami, hurricane, flooding, and earthquake relief.
By Jane Greer and Tom Stites in UU news

Marriage in the nineteenth century
Two books reveal the complexities of women's lives in Unitarian Boston.
By John Buehrens in Bookshelf

Books to honor great occasions
Four new books celebrating life's passages.
By Christopher L. Walton and Kenneth Sutton in Bookshelf

Counterculture church?
How American culture transforms—and is sometimes transformed by—liberal religion.
By Christopher L. Walton in Bookshelf

Books by UU authors, Spring 2006
A selection of books written by Unitarian Universalists.
By Kenneth Sutton in Books by UU authors

UU children, holy evolution, and a church reborn
Questions for spiritual reflection and adult group discussion.
By Jane Greer in What in the World?

UUSC led on Central American human rights
Three years before he was murdered, El Salvador's Archbishop Oscar Romero told us: 'Tell the world what is happening here.'
By Richard Scobie in Looking back