Recent Stories
Innovations help congregants hear
How some Unitarian Universalist churches are helping people with hearing disabilities.
Restoring a Gilded Age church
Church built to honor William Ellery Channing in 1880 is restored for the 21st century.
What do you need a potion for?
Maybe I went too far mixing V8 and Pop Rocks, but life isn't always sweet.
The gospel of inclusion
The Universalism of former Pentecostal bishop Carlton Pearson.
Reach out to become a public church
A Unitarian Universalist church should see the greater good as its primary purpose.
Youth, adults bond through service trips
Service trips are a great way to help people in need.
Unitarian Universalism in Africa
Unitarian Universalism is growing rapidly in Africa, uniting people from many tribes to serve the poor.
Congregations organize to combat recession
Tightening their own belts, Unitarian Universalist churches help members in need.
The church board and the Illuminati
What did the Décor Committee know, and when did they know it?
Expanding a landmark
A green addition to a Frank Lloyd Wright landmark.
Congregations remain hopeful in face of recession
Most are worried about finding ways to support members in need.
The mini-golf church
Unitarian Universalists congregation in Colorado Springs bought an amusement park in 2007.
Congregations develop programs for seniors
What Unitarian Universalist congregations can do to make churches friendlier places for seniors.
Two die in Knoxville church shooting
Knoxville congregations, UUs nationwide reaffirm openness after July 27 attack.
More congregations create addiction ministries
125 Unitarian Universalist congregations now offer ministries to people struggling with addiction.
Rowe Camp chapel fully renovated
101-year-old building serves UU camp founded in 1924.
Congregations helping other congregations
Aiding another congregation gives 'sense of supporting a larger vision of Unitarian Universalism.'
The stages of rest
Four stages of burnout and recovery as the church year draws to a close.
Cedar Lane's modernist auditorium
Pietro Belluschi's design for a Unitarian Universalist church in Maryland.
The fellowship movement
A look back at the lay-led congregations that transformed Unitarianism.
Music programs key to congregational life
Growing diversity in music characterizes Unitarian Universalism today.
Adapting to children's needs for 200 years
How Unitarian and Universalist religious education evolved over two centuries.
New London congregation has room to grow
Remodeled sanctuary features skyscape mural.
Recycling an old church
Elements from a 1911 church are incorporated into a new sanctuary.
Congregations welcome transgender people
Unitarian Universalist churches, General Assembly affirm transgender people.
Spiritual landmark in Second Life
Building a church in virtual reality.
Starting a new congregation from scratch
How three new congregations began.
Confessions of a prodigal volunteer
Life after burning out at church.
Passionate, unfiltered voices about ministry
New book about congregations and ministers working together.
Midweek church nights build spirit
Dinner, programs, and worship for all ages bring people together on weeknights.
The spiritual practice of hospitality
Welcoming people to our congregations is a way to encounter the mystery and wonder of life.
Our calling, Summer 2007
The unfulfilled promise of a racially and culturally diverse Unitarian Universalism.
Churches take steps toward diverse, multicultural future
Congregations respond to the General Assembly's challenge to examine race and class.
Unitarian Universalists on the Eightfold Path
Buddhism puts down roots in American congregations.
Maryland congregation meets in a yurt
Sugarloaf Congregation of Unitarian Universalists builds inexpensive new home.
New playground illustrates UU Seven Principles
Texas church helps design and build Principles-themed playground.
What membership means
Our covenant is open to all who will enter it with us.
Interfaith community groups leverage power
Hundreds of people gathered on a specific issue can have a strong impact on elected leaders.
The church in the hill
Jacksonville, Fla., church is built into a hillside.
Congregations for the environment
Turning the UUA's Seventh Principle into a call to action.
Golden age of Unitarian growth
One person inspired eight new churches in a dozen years.
Centenarian ordained to honor long service
Muriel Davies ordained by Maryland church she founded almost 50 years ago.
Church meets gold standard for green buildings
Ohio fellowship gets LEED gold certification for new building.
Musicians’ network offers children’s songbook
Thirty songs for children's choirs and worship services.
Summer UU religious education programs
Children need religious education in the summer, too.
Community ministers help build bridges
Ministry to youth on an organic farm in Los Angeles links church to larger community.
Learning to raise lifelong UUs
We're not just a religion of exiles.
Outdoor labyrinth
Virginia church practices a centuries-old tradition.
Fairbanks home to northernmost UU congregation
New building puts Alaska congregation 'on the map.'
Reviving a 227-year-old church
How the oldest Universalist church in America came back to life.
'Great Story' religious education
Science and religion in the Sunday school.
Books to honor great occasions
Four new books celebrating life's passages.
The joys and challenges of covenant groups
Not all small groups are covenant groups.
Hurricanes’ devastation is emotional as well as physical
Florida UUs uneasy about third stormy year; Louisiana church is hiring to help volunteers.
UUs join interfaith efforts to shelter homeless
Unitarian Universalist congregations shelter the homeless.
Churches give away Sunday collection
Entire nonpledge Sunday offering donated to community groups every week.
Churches relying on renewable energy sources
Wind, solar, and geothermal power are among sources.
A death in Iraq; a church changed
An opponent becomes an ally after losing his soldier son.
Bare naked church ladies
Church's playful fundraising calendar celebrates senior women.
New border ministry for El Paso
A Massachusetts church youth group calls border ministry in Mexico an 'eye-opener.'
Tombaugh memorial window
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Las Cruces honors a founding member's scientific achievements.
Interim ministers help ease transitions
Interim ministers help congregations make successful transitions between settled ministries.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Unitarian Universalist churches
Architect with Unitarian roots designed two famous UU churches.
Why I go to General Assembly
Denominational diversity in all its splendor.
Raising money through home hospitality
Congregations turn to creative fundraisers.
General Assembly Report 2004
Annual event in Long Beach, California
Enduring bond between American church and African clinic
Unity Church-Unitarian and the Nyirongo family.
Sharing the plate increases giving
More congregations give their Sunday offering to charity.
Are boys getting what they need at church?
When Sunday school isn't boy-friendly.
10 ways to make your religious education program boy-friendly
The bold experiment of the fellowship movement
The do-it-yourself fellowship movement spread Unitarian congregations far and wide.
Childhood memories of a Unitarian fellowship
The cartwheels, the parade, the presents for poor people.
Congregations commit to civil liberties
UUA champions civil liberties as U.S. responds to 9/11.
'His rightful place'
The Rev. W.H.G. Carter's great-granddaughter shares a family's living tradition.
A step toward racial reconciliation
A Cincinnati church reaches out to the family of a black Unitarian minister it rejected many years ago.
Grassroots work joins Unitarian Universalists, others
Faith-based community organizing builds alliances to make change.
UUs open their hearts in 9-11's aftermath
UU congregations and volunteers respond.
UU churches in cities attacked on 9-11
Houses of hope.
Congregation's wall of remembrance
Sharing the grief of 9/11.
9-11 postcard from Brooklyn
One minister describes a day of shock and mourning.
Unitarian Universalist responses to 9-11
Congregations near and far respond to 9/11.
Universalism: 200 years and growing
The spirit of Universalism and the future of Unitarian Universalism.
New Wichita church full of spaces for children
New UU building also has 'safe' rooms built to withstand tornadoes.
