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Category: News

Latest news of interest to Unitarians with  a focus on NAUA activities.

  • Religious Charisma

    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…

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  • Philosophy in a Nutshell

    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 …

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  • Summary of book “Used to be UU”

    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…

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  • Mama Bear and AI

    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.…

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  • Ban Nuclear Weapons

    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…

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  • ReligiousNews.com report of UUA General Assembly

    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…

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