ReligiousNews.com report of UUA General Assembly

2023 Jul 12 | News

Many NAUA members also belong to congregations that are members of the UUA or the CUC. Thus our interest in following news from these organizations.

The report from ReligiousNews.com provides a fairly balanced overview of the issues – notably the proposals to revise the bylaws and replace the current seven principles and sources. In the coming year UUA member congregations will be debating these proposed changes. We hope that readers query their delegates to the past and future general assemblies as to their voting behaviors and intentions to vote next year..

 

NAUA’s New Website

2023 Jul 10 | Uncategorized

NAUA is pleased to unveil the new website from which you are viewing this post!  We are pleased to be working with Skvare a website developer. Skvare’s logo is “helping others, help others” indicating their history of successful projects working with a variety of non profit, NGO and educational organizations.

Skvare focusses on developing websites and technical systems using open-source software. For this site build, we chose to use WordPress- the world’s most popular and open-source website platform. We also asked Skvare to implement CiviCRM – also an open-source platform that is used for constituent relationship management.  CiviCRM will allow us to better serve our members from across the continent.

As always with a new site, you may find small errors (we hope not) or you may have suggestions for improving this site. These comments are welcomed and encouraged. Please email info@naua.org with any suggestions.

 

News Template

2023 Jul 6 | Uncategorized

Liberal Bcaon #7

Liberal Beacon #7

This issue features a fascinating examination by Stephen Palmer of current Unitarian thinking through the lens of Elizabeth Kubla Ross’s 5 stages of grieve. This is follwoed by the personal and somewhat heart breaking story of Rev. terry’s Cummings journey through Unitarian congregations. Finally an artcile on an unscheduled model of  child care that practcied at one UU Church a book review our usual regular features.

Don’t miss this issue and reward your friends by emailing them a free copy!

 

6/20/2023 – Climate Action – Risk and Opportunity by Dr. Jan Dash

2023 Jun 14 | NAUA Academy

Image of a tree that appears to be located between two climates. One climate on one side is dry and appears abused; the other side is healthy and refreshed.

Unitarian Universalist Climate Action-Opportunity and Risk.

The speaker will be Dr. Jan Dash who is the Editor of the Journal of Climate Action, Research and Policy, the Editor of the World Scientific Climate Encyclopedia and the Gabelli Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Fordham University.

Review of climate change-risk and opportunity.
Vision for Unitarian Universalism being a powerful national voice for more urgent climate action.

What can the NAUA do for climate action?
After the Dr Dash’s presentation a brief Q&A session will follow and the session concludes with breakouts rooms that allow you to get to know new friends!

Register at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0549abaf2da6fe3-uuclimate#/

Date: June 20, 2023

Time 4:30-6:30 PDT, 7:30-9:30 EDT

5/16/2023 – What is Liberal Religion? It’s History and Values by Rev. Dr. Todd Eklof

2023 May 16 | NAUA Academy

Photo of Renaissance Art painted on a ceiling. Art is of a woman standing between two men. One man is strapped to a tree, and the other is on his knees by the woman's feet.

What is Liberal Religion? It’s History and Values

Tuesday May 16 4:30-6:00 PM Pacific Time

In this session, Rev. Dr. Todd F. Eklof will discuss the origins and characteristics of liberalism in the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods, how liberalism manifested as Unitarianism in Eastern Europe and, later, in the United States, and why it remains essential to human progress in today’s world. Click HERE to watch the recording of the presentation portion of this session.