4/10/2024 – How Migration Really Works – Bruce Knotts

Apr 14, 2024 | NAUA Academy

4/10/2024

Bruce 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 often shape our policies and attitudes.

Our speaker, Bruce Knotts, served as the Regional Refugee Coordinator in West Africa for the U.S. Government from 2000 to 2003. He currently teaches a course on refugees and migration at New York University, School of Social Work. He will discuss the current political debates on immigration and the plethora of misinformation on the subject.

New Edition of the Liberal Beacon

Apr 5, 2024 | Liberal Beacon, News

Lit beacon, lighthouse

The Liberal Beacon #10

Featured Articles: 

  • Sensing the Spiritual Realm: Benneville and Early Universalist Pietism  – Vernon Chandler 
  • Religious Pluralism in Context  – Terry Cummings 
  • The Diversity of Diversity: Why Integration is Still the Right Way Forward – Bruce Knotts 
  • Be Loved – Judy Robbins 
  • An Open Statement in Opposition to Article II Revisions – Kevin McCulloch 
  • Mind Control, Cults and Unitarian Universalism – Todd F. Eklof 

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What stage of Reaction to the Changes in Unitarian Universalism are you at?

Mar 28, 2024 | Liberal Beacon, News

In this insightful article, Dr. Stephen Polmar examines changes and reactions within the Unitarian movement using the famous stages of grief model developed by Dr. Kubler Ross.

This article was first published in the Oct. 2023 issue of the Liberal Beacon and bears reading -for a second time.  Many of us in the NAUA have reacted strongly against the critical theory driven agenda of most of the leadership in today’s Unitarian congregations. But where and how does that leave individuals with long records of service and support for their local congregation and the wider denominations?

This article helps us navigate our own internal feelings and may well help us move forward with understanding and resolve to make things better.

The whole issue of the Beacon, led by Stephen’s excellent article is available for download

Does this article resonate with your expereince. What stage of grief are you at?

I Before We Except Overseas – Tracing The Roots Of Our Multi-Century Identity Crisis

Mar 18, 2024 | News

Most 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 society. One intriguing theory is that this focus on individual identity has been intentional and has a distinct purpose. This talk will look at some theories that help explain how we have ended up with increasingly destabilizing disagreements about culture and politics in North America and Europe.

4/20/2024 – Immigration/living in another culture – Being Welcoming

Mar 18, 2024 | Uncategorized

This month’s service features a sermon by Joyce Kinnear  and her topic is  “Immigration/living in another culture – Being welcoming”

 

Joyce and her husband Scott are long time Unitarians who have lived in Panama for the past few years and have recently moved to Mexico; they used to live in Castro Valley, California.