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Unitarian Universalists mobilize for voting rights, criminal justice reform in 2018 elections

As elections approach, Unitarian Universalists work to register voters, promote criminal justice reform, and re-enfranchise 1.5 million people in Florida.

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UUs learn tools for ending the money bail system

Every day, thousands of people are held in jails across the United States—not because they’ve been convicted of a crime, but because they cannot post bail. The hazards of the bail system hit people of color especially hard, because one in three black men in the U.S. will go to jail at some point, while for whites, that number is one in seventeen, according to Leslie Mac, a member of the Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism Organizing Collective.

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UU World, Summer 2018.

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Aisha Hauser accepts MacLean Award for Excellence in Religious Education

On Friday morning, Aisha Khadr Hauser was presented with the 2018 Angus H. MacLean Award for Excellence in Religious Education at the UUA General Assembly in Kansas City, Missouri. The award is given annually to a Unitarian Universalist who has made outstanding contributions to religious education.

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2018 General Assembly kicks off with music, worship, and celebration

Acknowledging the hurts and distresses of the current moment, the opening sessions of the 2018 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association nonetheless called participants to celebrate the healing and strengthening virtues of music, worship, and joy. The fifty-seventh annual sessions began on June 20 in Kansas City, Missouri, and will conclude on Sunday, June 24.

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“Once we’ve taken one risk, we prefer not to take another. But to foster lively, ongoing creativity, we must let the familiar go.” —Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, UU World

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"Like our ancestors, we crave the resources needed to be able to navigate the unknown. We don’t just need the ability to withstand hard times, to persevere, although these are vital skills. We crave the resources to explore the mysteries in our world, in our lives, and in our own hearts," writes Laura Randall ("Grateful for the Dark," UU World, Winter 2017).

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Intersectional feminism means showing up when there are no pink hats

I attended my local Women’s March last year in Cleveland carrying a sign that said, “We’ve Been Marching. Black Lives Matter.” I didn’t carry the sign to shame those who were just finding their place in activism. Instead, I was suggesting to marchers, specifically white women, that there was a problem if their new interest in activism was solely because they suddenly felt impacted by oppressive policies.