Blessed Beltane! Our group Exploring Earth-Centered Spirituality met on Saturday to consider the neo-Pagan holidays centered around May Day. My own...
Growing Together: The Interdependence of Our Community Garden In our garden, every plant relies on the others around it—roots intertwine, and life-giving resources like water and nutrients are...
Veatch Grantee One Fair Wage Holds Digital Memorial to Commemorate Sacrifices of Service Workers During Covid-19 Last month, Veatch grantee One Fair Wage—a national organization seeking to end subminimum wages for service workers in the United...
Interdependence When I was in seminary, I took an ethics class—it was required for the obvious reasons. Of the many important things I was told, one...
Fighting Forward: Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Leads Effort to Remake the Kingsbridge Armory For nearly 30 years, the Kingsbridge Armory—thought to be the largest in the world—has sat empty, despite multiple attempts to...
Pluralism A public friend, a member of the clergy from another religion, once kidded with me that Unitarian Universalists must have it easy around...
Veatch Grantee Education and Training Institute Organizes March on International Women’s Day As we close Women’s History Month, we are happy to share news from a New Jersey-based grantee that organizes immigrant workers, the...
Member of VOCAL-NY, a Veatch Grantee, Attends State of the Union as Rep. Yvette Clarke’s Guest During the State of the Union address earlier this month, Congresswoman Yvette Clarke invited Milton Perez, a longtime leader of Veatch...
We Gather On Native Land The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock is located in Shelter Rock, New York, the ancestral home of the Matinecock...
The Situation in Haiti Claire Deroche received this email from Cassandra Ryan of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC in answer to her query about...
Wildflower Meadows at UUCSR UUCSR has engaged Larry Weaner Landscape Associates to design wildflower meadows along the perimeter of the Great Lawn. This design work...
Transformation When my son was young he loved to play with the Hasbro toy “Transformers.” One moment the toy was a dump truck and the next, after...
UUA Opens Its Hearts and Its Home The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) is partnering with The United Way, the Black Refugee & Immigrant Community Coalition,...
Normandy Mail Call for a Shelter Rock Member! We are delighted to share that UUCSR member Capt. Hugh Stephens, affectionately known as Huey, has been honored with an invitation to the...
Justice and Equity, by Rev. Dr. Natalie Fenimore So often we worry about “fairness.” We want everyone to be treated the same. To have equal opportunities. But the reality is that we...
Eighth Principle Study Group Did You Know That There Is a National UU Eighth Principle Study Group That Meets Online Monthly? Wednesday, February 21 | 7:00 pm It’s...
LIAC UU Welcomes Executive Director The Executive Board of The Long Island Area Council of Unitarian Universalist Congregations (LIAC), the organization connecting Long...
Lessons of Love from the Wild Perhaps you know the ecological restoration story of wolves being reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park, but do you know what this...
Asking the Clergy: LGBT Inclusiveness in Your Faith Published in Newsday, January 21, 2024 Jim Merritt, Special to Newsday In December, Pope Francis took a small but significant step toward...
Hero (Just for One Day) Laura is a hero everyday. She is a Math teacher. The kind of teacher I hated in school; the kind that wanted me to learn and be better...
The Eighth Principle in Practice The Eighth Principle calls on us to perform specific actions to confront racism and other oppressions. One way we can do that as members of...