I hope you are looking forward to participating in 2025 NAUA Summit- this year hosted on the new Zoom Events portal. This post is meant to help you navigate through this environment – using a Bee analogy. I used to keep a few colonies of bees and have just finished a...

One of the key priorities of the NAUA Board of Trustees this year has been the creation of a Three-Year Strategic Plan for our fledgling organization. The now completed plan outlines goals and objectives, along with tentative deadlines, for ensuring long-term growth,...

August's worship service will explore our relationship with the environment and climate change as a moral and spiritual imperative. Gail Sandlin will lead the August NAUA Service. She will explore our relationship with the environment and climate change as a moral and...

On June 15th the North American Unitarian Association (NAUA) became a member of the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF). This is an important milestone for NAUA as membership in IARF represents recognition of NAUA as a member of the world-wide...

The NAUA International Alliance hosted a 5-month educational series on Mythology, It was led by Margarete (Marga) Hanna from January through May 2025, with support from Stephen Polmar, John Eichrodt, and Wayne Hanna. We asked Marga to summarize the series for those...

Todd Eklof, NAUA President, will discuss the NAUA's past, present and future, then invite participants to reflect on his message and share their own thoughts. Todd Eklof, NAUA President, will be the main speaker for May's service. He will discuss where we are, where...

Ralph Waldo Emerson decried the Unitarianism of his day as “corpse-cold” and urged the religion to evolve with new understandings of the contemporary world. Those understandings are still with us today, but our Living Tradition asks us to continue evolving with the...

Enjoy the latest issue of The Liberal Beacon, which includes the following insightful articles and book reviews: "What Universities Owe the Liberal Project" by Emilie Chamlee-Wright "Dumbfounded: The Need for Laughter in the Face of Adversity" by Todd Eklof "An...

Discussions about nuclear weapons are often framed as security, legal, political or military issues. Yet equally important are moral and ethical perspectives, and faith communities play a critical role in bringing in such dimensions to discourses about nuclear...

This month’s NAUA service fell the day before Easter, the day of the Christian Resurrection, so what better day to have a discussion of “Life After Death”? Bob Simoni discussed the latest research in recalled experiences of death, formerly called near death experiences, and then discussed the Hindu Reincarnation belief system and finally ended with real life examples of young children who have inexplicable experiences of previous lives with vivid details that seem impossible to imagine.

The newly established NAUA Member Services Committee presented their Action Plan to the NAUA Board of Trustees on March 12th. Many who participated in last year's Summit will find their ideas expressed below. The Committee has a threefold purpose: 1. To recruit new...

"Yours, Mine and Ours: The NAUA Going Forward"March 15th, 2025 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM PST This month's worship service explores various perspectives ("Yours, Mine and Ours") on the future of the NAUA. Join on the 3rd Saturday of the month to take a closer look at...