Rev. Kate Rhode has successfully launched her lawsuit against the UUA. In the suit she charges that the UUA unlawfully disfellowshipped her and thus eliminated her pension. This follows a distinguished career as a UU minister. She served many congregations over 40 years of successful UU ministry. Rev. Rhode has launched a GoFund Me page entitled “Make…

The illiberalism that currently exerts control over the Unitarian Universalist denomination gives rise to many intense feelings. In this essay, reprinted from Issue #7 of the Liberal Beacon, Stephen Polmar aptly describes these reactions with which many of us are currently struggling. The essay uses the lens of Kubler-Ross’s Stages of Grief model.  This model and Stephen’s comments…

Latest News from NAUA  The CBC Ideas program provides a daily broadcast and podcast on current and often academic topics. This podcast and text will be of interest to Unitarians who are trying to understand the rise, and demise of religion from an historical perspective. In this podcast and the text version, Dr Molly Worthen provides a a very…

Rev. Todd Eklof teams up with a variety of Artificial Intelligent tools and Wikipedia to create an amazing set  short videos high lighting ancient Greek Philosophers. Besides being engaging, visually stunning and informative, Todd claims the videos were easy and quick to create. We hope you enjoy the videos and subscribe to the YouTube Channel …

Frank Casper and Jay Kiskel are long time Unitarians who are very concerned with the ideological and authoritarian shift happening in Unitarian Universalist congregations and organizations.  They also realized that there is no way for average Unitarian Universalists to communicate with one another.  Thus, they authored Used to be UU: The Systematic Attack on UU Liberalism and founded…

There is much uncertainty and uneasiness about what Artificial Intelligence will mean for our future but, for now, it’s already being employed by millions of people to save time researching, writing, creating art, and producing media. Not wishing to be left behind, I recently started dabbling with AI myself and have been overwhelmed by its creative possibilities.…

On August 6, 1945 at 8:15 am the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima Japan. Since then the potential for nuclear catastrophe has grown to a frightening scale.In our work for peace, we should following the will of the United Nations General Assembly that voted with an overwhelming majority to abolish nuclear weapons.As long…