December

12/19/06 Summoning the Sun

12/1/06 Sinkford Speaks at Washington DC World AIDS Day Event; Urges Congressional Action

November

11/28/06 UUA President and UU Congregations Prepare to Observe World AIDS Day with Lobbying, Witness and Solemn Remembrance

11/21/06 Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations 2005-2006 Annual Report on Giving Now Available 

11/17/06 The Deep Well of Appreciation: a prayer of Thanksgiving by Rev. Marta Valentin

11/13/06: Unitarian Universalists Witness for Economic Justice, Equality in Marriage, Peace during 2006 Election Season

11/10/06: Honoring our Unitarian Universalist Veterans

11/3/06: State Ballot Measures to Restrict Marriage (voted or pending) 2006

October

10/26/06: Unitarian Universalist President Commends Court Ruling in NJ Marriage Case

10/25/06: Death Toll Mounts in Iraq: How Can We Respond?

10/24/06: Taking Time for the Stories of Our Lives

10/20/06: Beacon's Anniversary of a Landmark Publication: The Pentagon Papers

10/18/06: Connecticut Interfaith Clergy Bear Witness Against Legislators Supporting Military Commissions Act

10/10/06: New From Skinner House Books and the UUA!

10/05/06: UU-supported community based investing helps First Nation people return to their homes

10/05/06: The Mid-Term Elections Are One Month Away: We've got resources to help you bring your faith into action!

September

9/26/06: "Tzedakah va Chessed:" A Prayer for the High Holy Days

9/26/06: Timely New and Recommended Titles From Beacon Press

9/15/06: US Holocaust Memorial Museum Honors Unitarians

August

8/30/06: Pastoral Letter: We Are Called to Continue the Journey

8/29/06 Hurricane Katrina, one year later: Voice from the Gulf

8/28/06 Sinkford Joins Religious Leaders to Advance World Peace

8/24/06 Hurricane Katrina, one year later: Profiling Mary Croom-Fontenot and ACT

8/23/06 Tim Brennan, New UUA Treasurer, Takes Office

8/18/06 Hurricane Katrina, one year later: Profiling Vicky Cintra and MIRA

8/9/06 A Lasting Gift to the Information Age: The Fifteenth Anniversary of the World Wide Web

July

7/28/06 Witnessing for Peace

7/21/06 UUA Applauds Voting Rights Act Renewal

7/11/06 Sinkford Lobbies House of Representatives on Marriage Amendment

7/6/06 UUA President Decries Court Ruling in NY Marriage Case

7/6/06 Enjoy Summer Reading from the UUA Bookstore and Beacon Press!

It's summer and the pace of life has slowed a little. Take time now to catch up on your summer reading with these new books! Blessing the World: What Can Save Us Now, by the Rev. Rebecca Ann Parker, edited by the Rev. Robert Hardies, is a collection of Parker's theological writings focusing on salvation and redemption. Her life's work, so eloquently displayed on these pages, is to expose the lie that violence redeems and to direct us toward the forces that repair broken life.

Peace in Our Lifetime: Insights from the World's Peacemakers, by Susan Skog, offers stories of 50 exceptional peacemakers working in war zones, high-conflict organizations and neighborhoods, with a foreword by Thich Nhat Hanh.

Beacon Press offers Life Work, written by Donald Hall, author of numerous prizewinning volumes of poetry including The One Day, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, essays, children's books, and criticism. His new collection of short stories, The Willow Temple, will be published by Houghton Mifflin this spring. In June 2006, Hall was named the 14th poet laureate of the United States.

Mary Oliver, one of the most celebrated and best-selling poets in America, has written Blue Iris; House of Light; New and Selected Poems, Volume One; and New and Selected Poems, Volume Two. Now, Beacon is proud to offer At Blackwater Pond:  Mary Oliver Reads Mary Oliver, a new CD.

Check out these and other Beacon and UUA titles now and stock your shelves for your summer vacation!

June

6/16/06 Unitarian Universalists Prepare to Mark Tragic Milestone in Iraq War

6/16/06 Unitarian couple honored for World War II rescues

6/14/06 Restoring Unitarian Universalism in the Jazz City: UU ministers and their congregations plan for the future of our faith

6/7/06 Tapestry of Faith: Visionary Generosity Brings UU Religious Education into the Twenty-First Century

6/5/06 Unitarian Universalists Speak at the Clergy for Fairness Press Conference

May

5/30/06 Rising like the Phoenix: UUA-UUSC Gulf Coast Relief Funds Support New Orleanians Working to Restore the City of Jazz

5/25/06 UUA Professorship Established at Harvard Divinity School

5/24/06 UU Ministers Travel to DC to Advocate Against Discrimination in the Constitution

April

4/25/06 In Support of Marriage Equality: No Discrimination in the Constitution

4/20/06 Honoring "The Blue Green Hills of Earth": Earth Day 2006

4/14/06 Unitarian Universalist Association Supports Immigrant Rights

4/6/06 Pastoral Letter from the Rev. William G. Sinkford: In This Season of Rebirth, a Call to People of Conscience

March

3/16/06 On the Anniversary of War: A Call for Public Debate

3/6/06 New Director of Ministry and Professional Leadership Appointed

3/1/06 Register now for the UUA General Assembly in St. Louis!
The UUA's General Assembly will take place from June 21-25 in St. Louis, Missouri, and registration is now open! If you're an active youth, young adult or adult member of a UU congregation, plan now to join us in St. Louis for GA! You'll want to be present for the rousing ingathering program with its banner parade and terrific music, the Ware Lecture delivered by award winning poet Mary Oliver, and the Sunday morning worship service led by the Rev Gail Geisenhainer, minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Vero Beach, FL. You'll have the opportunity to attend hundreds of valuable programs and workshops, meet Unitarian Universalists from across the United States, and worship and celebrate together at GA. Visit the GA web page for further information and registration and housing information!

February

2/10/06 Freedom to Marry 2006: UUs Focus on Legislative Advocacy While Affirming Marriage Equality

2/8/06 Join the Million Voices for Darfur Campaign – Call for a U.S. Response to Genocide!

January

New from Skinner House

1/31/06 New and Recommended from Skinner House Books
The UUA and our own Skinner House Books have new resources to feed your spiritual soul!  We're pleased to announce publication of the second edition of Rejoice Together: Prayers, Meditations and Other Readings for Family, Individual and Small-Group Worship, Second Edition - Helen Pickett, Editor.

We Pledge Our Hearts: A Treasury of Poems, Quotations and Readings to Celebrate Love and Marriage, collected by Edward Searl, is a new resource to honor love and our affirmations of love to one another.

To celebrate our religious traditions through music, we recommend Singing the Journey, a new supplement to Singing the Living Tradition, which offers 74 multicultural hymns, chants and songs for marking the seasons of our lives in a myriad of musical styles. MORE >>

1/24/06 UUA Calls for Action on Eve of Alito Supreme Court Vote

1/19/06 Kennedy Keynotes Greater Boston Martin Luther King Day Living Wage Event

1/13/06 Unitarian Universalists Call for a Just Minimum Wage on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

1/11/06 Consultation on Ministry to and with Youth Underway

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