NAUA and the Future of Liberal Education

NAUA & the Future of Liberal Religion As NAUA prepares for this session. Rev. Dr. Todd F. Eklof shares his thoughts about the direction it should take in its efforts to help Unitarianism and liberal religion to carry on and thrive. This presentation will include...

Difference between Woke, Left and Liberal – with a little Enlightenment and Foucault thrown in!

Have you been caught trying to prepare or deliver a short elevator speech, that lets others know what is the problem with the current ideological focus in many of our social institutions?  If this describes your experience some days, you likely will really appreciate...

New Summit Special Issue of the Liberal Beacon

This Issue of the Liberal Beacon introduces the Beacon's new editor John Griffin. It features extensive details about the upcoming NAUA Summit to be held Oct. 17-20 in Spokane and online via Zoom.  Besides details of the Summit, this issue features short bios of the...

NAUA and the Future of Liberal Religion

NAUA & the Future of Liberal Religion As NAUA prepares for its first Summit in Spokane,  Rev. Dr. Todd F. Eklof will share his thoughts about the direction it should take in its efforts to help Unitarianism and liberal religion to carry on and thrive. This...

NAUA Service: 9/21/2024 – Healing the West by Julian Adorney

This monthly service includes Chalice Lighting, Hymns, guest music and an very interesting guest speaker - Julian Adorney. Julian Adorney is the founder of Heal the West, a Substack movement dedicated to preserving and repairing our liberal social contract....

Dynamic Keynote Speaker Announced for NAUA Summit

NAUA is very pleased to announce that John Wood Jr. will be joining us as the keynote speaker for the historic first NAUA Summit in Spokane Oct 17-20th. John Wood Jr. is a leading figure in the American depolarization movement. He is national ambassador for Braver...

Blog relaunched by Helen Pluckrose

Many of us experienced mind expanding learning when we fead British Academic, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay's best selling book Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody. This book...

The Evolution of Humanism

  In this recording of Sept 16 2024 NAUA Academy meeting, Dr. Mark Reimers presents an overview of three stages of Humanism. This recording, as well as all previous NAUA Academy session are available on the NAUA website   The roots of humanism lie in ancient wisdom...

September News and Events Reminder

Announcements: First Annual Yearly NAUA Summit - Register Now! We have over 110 members registered (about half online) for our first Yearly Summit. The summit will be on the weekend of October 17 to 20, 2024 in Spokane, WA. and all sessions will be shared on Zoom. We...

NAUA Summit Early Bird Rates extended

  Are you concerned about the future of our religious tradition? Would you like to meet new friends who share these concerns. Do you want to celebrate the beginning of a new faith tradition? Do you want to take a trip to the beautiful Spokane and Spokane Valley? ...

NAUA Summit Early Bird Deadline Approaches

  Are you concerned about the future of our religious tradition? Would you like to meet new friends who share these concerns. Do you want to celebrate the beginning of a new faith tradition? Do you want to take a trip to the beautiful Spokane and Spokane Valley? ...

Our Age

Our age is known for violence. It has been marked by alienation. It has spawned bureaucracy. It has embraced cynicism. Yet human beings yearn for alternatives; they long to matter. They hunger for a community of shared values reflecting the triumph of intelligence and...

When Liberalism Goes Terribly Wrong

When Liberalism Goes Terribly Wrong (Alternatively – When Populism Swings Left) We hope you will be able to join us for an important service from UU Spokane on Sunday August 18. As you see from the description below, the topic is timely, and given Todd's insights and...

New Edition of the UUnderWorld

The  Aug. 2024 issue of the UU Underworld: A Newsletter for Unitarian Universalist FreeThinkers is now available.here.This version of the UUUnderworld features articles, advise, humour and letters to the editor. Make sure you read and share Rebecca Pace's warning to...

Unitarianism and Freedom of Thought – by John Dietrich updated by and Todd Eklof

While many of us had the opportunity to hear Rev. Eklof present an amended version of Rev. John Dietrich's 1918 sermon,  "Unitarianism and Freedom of Thought", last Sunday on UUSpokane zoom, some of you did not. For me, it was an extremely powerful and meaningful...