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  • Tributes to Rev. Dr. Finley C. Campbell

    Rev. Dr. Finley C. Campbell

    In this special issue of UUMUAC”s View from the Mountaintop 11 friends provide memories and pictures of  Rev. Dr Finley C. Campbell,  Rev Campbell was the founder of the Unitarian Universalist Multiracial Unity Action Council. (UUMUAC)  Finley’s principled anti-racism, so thoroughly uncompromising, led him to an understanding that is still not grasped by many people: that racism in many forms…

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  • Nov. 18, 2023 – The “United” States

    NAUA Treasurer Bob Simoni shares his insights into the often united, United States Recent Posts Archives

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  • Rev. Kate Rhode opens law suit against the UUA

    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…

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  • Different Responses to the Current State of Unitarian Universalism

    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…

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  • October 23, 2023. Not Fallen Angels – Reconsidering fashionably cynical attitudes about humanity and civilization

    Our speaker this month is the  Rev. Mark Gallagher who was a UU parish minister for about 25 years, mostly in Vancouver, Washington, where he now carries on a private practice ministry of preaching, teaching, and spiritual growth work. In this sermon, he overviews the destructive result of cynical attitues and actions. Recent Posts Archives

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  • 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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