Liberal Religion – Its History and Values
Liberal Religion - It’s History and Values In this NAUA Academy Session, Rev. Dr. Todd F. Eklof discusses the origins and characteristics of liberalism in the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods, how liberalism manifested as Unitarianism in Eastern Europe and,...
Top Notch Saturday Community Worship Service
NAUA's monthly worship for October was service was exceptional. The music was first rate and Rev. Mark Gallager gave a very insightful sermon - Not Fallen Angels: Reconsidering fashionably cynical attitudes about humanity and civilization. The zoom recording of this...
Latest issue (#7) of the Liberal Beacon
In this month’s issue from the Liberal Beacon Editorial Board: Stephen Polmar uses Kübler-Ross's five stages of grief to explain Different Responses to the Current State of Unitarian Universalism. Rev. “Twinkle” Marie Manning shares her seasonal poem The Dark...
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...
A Very Compelling Academy Presentation!
The NAUA Academy presents its most compelling course to date with over 100 people registered. The presentation covers the philosophy and ideas behind the identity movement, that has driven so much controversy in churches, universities and businesses. This presentation...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Latest Issue of the Liberal Beacon
New Issue of the Liberal Beacon The August 2023 Issue of the Liberal Beacon is now available. Featured Articles An Introduction to Humanistic Psychology by Candace Schmidt, Ph.D The Parable of New Coke by Rev. Dr. Todd F. Eklof Dismantling The Wedge Issue by Rev....
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...