Author: Terry Anderson
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Solstice 2025 Celebration Saturday Worship
Read more: Solstice 2025 Celebration Saturday WorshipThis moving video of the 2025 Holiday Reflections of the Season features greetings, best wishes, poems and readings from NAUA leaders across the continent. Not to be missed!! Recent Posts Archives
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Dec 12, 2025. Rise of the Nones: Challenge for our Society or Opportunity for Unitarians?
Read more: Dec 12, 2025. Rise of the Nones: Challenge for our Society or Opportunity for Unitarians?This December 2025 NAUA Academy session features a presentation and a lively discussion on the opportunities and challenges from the Arising of the Nones. Joyce Francis leads the discussion, presents efforts of the New Salish Sea Congregation and our own stories of finding Unitarian alternatives. Does the same programs and activities of Unitarians still work for the…
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Nov. 15, 2025 – Freedom From Want by Rev. Twinkle Manning
Read more: Nov. 15, 2025 – Freedom From Want by Rev. Twinkle ManningThis service reviews our capacity to free each other from all kinds of want – and our innate need to do just so. Twinkle is the contract minister for the Universalist Unitarian Church of Waterville, Maine. She is an author, poet, retreat leader and liturgist, as well as a semi-retired television producer. She served for…
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Nov. 11, 2025. “Christian Nationalism”
Read more: Nov. 11, 2025. “Christian Nationalism”At its core Christian Nationalism is a political-ideological view that a particular nation either is or should be a Christian nation — meaning the identity, culture, laws or governance of that country should reflect a specific form of Christianity. It is distinct from simply “being Christian” or “Christian values influencing society.” Rather, it tends to…
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Oct. 18, 2025. Welcoming the Stranger
Read more: Oct. 18, 2025. Welcoming the StrangerRev. Alex Holt, a longtime Unitarian minister, led the October 18th NAUA Service. His theme was It is said we are a hopelessly divided country and perhaps we should secede to make us more unified. Really? Can we as liberal religious communities continue to welcome the stranger rather than push them away? How can that…
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Sept. 20, 2025. JD Stillwater: One Song – the Science of Oneness
Read more: Sept. 20, 2025. JD Stillwater: One Song – the Science of OnenessFor millennia mystics and poets have told us that “All is one” and yet we feel ourselves surrounded by separation, antagonism, and isolation! With help from some intrepid dung beetles, science ambassador JD Stillwater takes us on a tour of findings from mainstream science that reveal an underlying wholism in everything, from human bodies to…
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Apr. 25, 2025. The Role of Faith Communities in Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
Read more: Apr. 25, 2025. The Role of Faith Communities in Abolishing Nuclear WeaponsDiscussions about nuclear weapons are often framed as security, legal, political or military issues. Yet equally important are moral and ethical perspectives, and faith communities play a critical role in bringing in such dimensions to discourses about nuclear weapons, which poses existential threats to humanity and our planet. In this talk, Anna Ikeda of Soka Gakkai International will…
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Jan. 14, 2025 – When we Almost Got it Right – Societies that Worked
Read more: Jan. 14, 2025 – When we Almost Got it Right – Societies that WorkedAs we hear distressing stories of violence and oppression from around the world, we may benefit from reminding ourselves of times and places when human beings did organize themselves into durable just societies. In this talk Dr. Reimers discusses some of these times and places: from the world’s first cities in 4000 BCE, to the…
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Dec. 10, 2024. Liberal Religion—Is It Time for Hospice?
Read more: Dec. 10, 2024. Liberal Religion—Is It Time for Hospice?Religious participation is plummeting. “Church” has become a bad brand. Should we resign ourselves to palliative care for our aging congregations? Can we find ways to feed the hunger for meaning and community? One thing is certain: We cannot church the way we always have and hope for different results. Speaker: Rev Peter Morales is…
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Dec. 3 2024. I Before We, Except Overseas: Tracing the Roots of our Multi-Century Identity Crisis
Read more: Dec. 3 2024. I Before We, Except Overseas: Tracing the Roots of our Multi-Century Identity CrisisI Before We Except Overseas – Tracing The Roots Of Our Multi-Century Identity CrisisMost cultures of European descent cultivate individual identity more than other cultures of the world. We have to go back 60, or 100, or perhaps 300 years to find the roots of our contemporary debates over the role of identity in our…