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A Prayer for Courage to Remember and Witness Liberator and Lover of Freedom to Be Whole and Enough, may we learn and lean into the courage to remember history as it happened, to bear witness to the harm and to the hopes, to the imperfect people making sometimes, often, horrific... Rev. Naomi King

Sue Ferguson

If I’m not cultivating an open heart and watching for the helpers, the teachers, and the angels, I may miss them when I need them the most.

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A Prayer for Asking for What We Need Hello, just me over here. Yup, me again. Still asking. Yes, I am still asking for what I need. I have noticed the differences between my desires, my wants, and my needs. Yes, and I really do need. I have gathered my... Rev. Naomi King

Tania Márquez

When we become fully aware of our limited time on earth we can still leave behind flowers and songs.

Continue reading "Flor y Canto"

A Prayer for Rest Gracious Love, may we rest. May we have spaciousness to rest in dappled or deep shade on a hot day, with a nice breeze, and on a cool day in a pool of warming sun. May we have spaciousness to rest from persistent violence and aggressions... Rev. Naomi King

A Prayer for Mothers' Day 2023 Mother-Parent of All, we give thanks for this day and for being birthed into being in our amazing diversity of expression, culture, movement, perception, thinking, reverence, and feelings. There are so many ways of being a person and we all come to being a... Rev. Naomi King

Joanna Fontaine Crawford

We are the hands and feet of love. And sometimes its fingernails, too.

Continue reading "Fingernails as Faith Development"

In responding to recent attacks on trans and nonbinary+ people, the UUA calls out the dangerous anti-democratic practices being used to silence dissent. We pledge our continued commitment to protect peoples' right to feel safe expressing their identity and to defend democratic institutions.

Continue reading "Trans, Nonbinary+ Lives and Democracy are at Risk: UUs Unequivocally Defend Justice"

A Prayer For Abundant, Imperfect Enoughness, Week of May 8, 2023 Lover of Imperfection, Still-Becoming, Not-Yet, Still-Enough, hold us and encourage us to hold each other tenderly, questioning the sources and power accrual behind expectations to do more than we have energy to do, to not experience illness, impairment, or... Rev. Naomi King

Jennifer Hundley-Batts

The miracle of grace is available to us even when it has been left untended.

Continue reading "The Uncovering"

A Prayer to Widen Our Circle of Care Heart of Compassion, may we learn, day by day, moment by moment, how to widen our circles of care, as we begin with the coil of sweetgrass wrapped around itself in the centre, and build that circle outward, to create a mat,... Rev. Naomi King

The UUA is very pleased to announce the appointment of Ebony C. Peace as Director of Human Resources. In this executive position, Peace helps to lead the UUA’s overall commitment to being a workplace where people of all backgrounds and identities can thrive.

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Lynn Gardner

In our times of need, may we each be saved by hope, connection, and love.

Continue reading "Saving What We Can"

A Prayer for Nurturing an Earth Economy - Earth Day 2023 Honey of the Rock, we’re searching for sweetness amid so much catastrophe and change. We’re searching for refuge, for protection, for assurance that we will all be all right. Honey in the Rock, Shelter and Refuge, Rock of Our... Rev. Naomi King

JD Stillwater

Remind me that life is magical and mysterious.

Continue reading "Wondrous Beyond Words"

A Prayer for Connecting Deeply with Earth Rock of Our Hearts, connect us deeply to the earth wherever we live, wherever we are migrating, wherever we are exiled, wherever we travel, wherever we are. Connect us deeply to the earth, so we learn the ways of the land as it... Rev. Naomi King

Lindasusan Ulrich

May we remember the belonging that is ours simply because we were born.

Continue reading "Kinship with the World"

Susan Frederick-Gray

UUA President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray responds to the recent vote of the TN House of Representatives to expel State Representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson because of their actions supporting gun safety advocates.

Continue reading "From the UUA President: Tennessee Teaches Us We Cannot Normalize Authoritarianism. We Must Protect Democracy."

A Prayer For Dreaming the World Made Whole: Community Shelter, Refuge, and Home of the Displaced and Dispossessed, the Exiled and the Ones Who Shall Not and Have Not Been Relocated, invite us to dream a world and then work each to create it, to converse together and try stuff... Rev. Naomi King

Myke Johnson

It’s complicated, sorting out where Jesus fits into my life as a witch. But he hasn’t gone away.

Continue reading "Radical Loving"