Can We Find a Home Here? Answering Questions of Interfaith Couples
by Catherine Bowers

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If your life partner is someone who comes from a religious tradition different from your own, you are already familiar with the joys and challenges of creating intimacy across cultural boundaries. Because religious identity is closely tied with a person's larger cultural background, many of the day-to-day differences you and your partner encounter may have little to do with religious belief or practice. For many interfaith couples, these differences in styles of interaction and approach to life are part of their initial attraction to one another, and they learn to negotiate them early on in the relationship. FULL TEXT»

Soulful Journeys: The Faith of African American Unitarian Universalists
edited by Mel Hoover and Jacqui James

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"Lift Every Voice and Sing" proclaims the first line of the song I learned in childhood as the Negro National Anthem. It is included in our Unitarian Universalist hymnal, but its wisdom is far too easy to overlook. Unitarian Universalism is a hymn in many parts. -- Rev. William G. Sinkford FULL TEXT»

Unitarian Universalism: A Religious Home for Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender People
Barbara J. Pescan

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In our search for religious truth, we weigh the religious voices and visions of every place and time on a balance with our own voice and vision. We search the gathered wisdom of humankind-reason and intuition, the arts and science-and we search our own experience. We enter the combined religious traditions of the Unitarians and the Universalists, offering the life-truths of bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgender people. FULL TEXT»

Unitarian Universalism: A Welcoming Place for Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender People
Scott W. Alexander

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At a time when some faith traditions are expressing deep ambivalence about whether to truly welcome bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgender persons and others continue to express open hostility toward anyone who is of a minority in sexual orientation or gender identity, Unitarian Universalism is deepening its long-standing commitment to the full inclusion and affirmation of all persons-without regard to sexual orientation or gender identity. FULL TEXT»

Jornadas Espirituales Latinas
Latino/Latina Spiritual Journeys
edited by Ervin Barrios and Julio Naboa

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A bilingual pamphlet in which seven Latinos and Latinas describe the journeys that brought them to Unitarian Universalism.
Los unitarios universalistas latinos hemos viajado por diversos caminos, pero hemos llegado a un punto de convergencia en nuestra jornada espiritual. No compartimos las mismas formaciones culturales o teológicas; tampoco existe una fórmula mágica que originalmente haya despertado la conciencia espiritual en todos nosotros. Sin embargo, todos nuestros testimonios reflejan un enfoque claro y común, una sed por el conocimiento y por el uso de la razón, inexplicablemente ligada a la necesidad de un crecimiento espiritual auténtico. A veces estas historias hacen eco y reverberan entre sí, reflejando vidas paralelas, pero que en su mayoría, tejen una red que trasciende sus hilos individuales. Esta red de experiencias enriquece y a la vez es enriquecida dentro del contexto del universalismo unitario. FULL TEXT»