Author: Terry Anderson
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Apr. 10, 2024. – How Migration Really Works – Bruce Knotts
Read more: Apr. 10, 2024. – How Migration Really Works – Bruce KnottsBruce Knotts presents a discussion based upon the new book by Hein de Haas entitled “How Migration Really Works”. Hein de Hass is a professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam and founding member of the Migration Institute at the University of Oxford. In this book Prof. de Haas demolishes 22 myths about migration that too…
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Feb. 17, 2024. Education, Women’s Rights, and the Abolition of Slavery.
Read more: Feb. 17, 2024. Education, Women’s Rights, and the Abolition of Slavery.The Reverend Rick Davis talks about American Unitarian Rev. Samuel Joseph May who during the nineteenth century championed education, women’s rights, and abolition of slavery. Aligning the efforts and successes of past Unitarian leaders with our efforts today, provides inspiration and lessons for each of us. Recent Posts Archives
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Jan. 21,2024 – Plus ça change: David Reich revisits his 2010 satire, “The Antiracism Trainings”
Read more: Jan. 21,2024 – Plus ça change: David Reich revisits his 2010 satire, “The Antiracism Trainings”David Reich has written a funny, incisive novel about race, religion, and office politics. He’s fearlessly unpious, observant, and witty, but he’s also fair to his flawed and often enjoyably irksome characters. His gift for finding nuanced humanity in their semi-good intentions gives warmth and life to this quietly ambitious satire. -Carlo Rotella, author of…
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Jan. 20, 2024-Finding Our Way: Where Our Liberal Religion Must Go From Here
Read more: Jan. 20, 2024-Finding Our Way: Where Our Liberal Religion Must Go From HereIn this evocative service Rev. Dr. Todd Eklof helps us find our way. Somehow, over the past few decades, Unitarians and Universalists have lost our way, often demonstrating the very opposite of our purposes and principles. Now, whatever we are about must include regaining our place as am influential liberal religious voice in the world.…
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Dec. 16, 2023. Blue Christmas
Read more: Dec. 16, 2023. Blue ChristmasDecember’s NAUA worship service theme was: “Blue Christmas.” The holiday season, while filled with light, can create palpable darkness. This service offers a space to hold your grief sacred and to honor any loss or pain you are feeling. Join us for heartfelt music, sacred solace and reflection. This service includes Christmas, Solstice and Hanukah…
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Lessons from the Unitarian Quest for Consensus 1865-1895
Read more: Lessons from the Unitarian Quest for Consensus 1865-1895The Transcendentalist critique of historical Christianity created a rift in the Unitarian church between traditional-minded Unitarian Christians and more radical Free Religionists who felt that the church should embrace a more universal form of religion. Although the National Conference of Unitarian Churches was founded in 1865, it took nearly 30 years for the conference participants…
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Nov. 14, 2023 – Parliament of the World’s Religions by Bruce Knotts
Read more: Nov. 14, 2023 – Parliament of the World’s Religions by Bruce Knotts“We accept all Religions as Truth” are the words spoken by Swami Vivekananda at the founding of the Parliament of the World’s Religions in 1893 in Chicago. Our speaker is Bruce Knotts, a Trustee of the Parliament of the World’s Religions. Bruce discusses the founding and history of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, as well as…