Soundings : Blue Boat

Transition in Campus Ministry

It has been such an honor to work with all of you in my nearly three years serving as Campus Ministry Associate at the Unitarian Universalist Association. I look forward to continuing in this position until my last day on July 12th. I have appreciated getting to know many of you as individuals, and learning what particular gifts you bring to your campus ministry. Some of my favorite memories are helping you plot the most enjoyable and effective ministry through one-on-one phone calls, larger conference calls, and group google hangouts with monocles, pirate hats and tiaras. Having the duty of organizing information in spreadsheets and databases, updating and creating resources, and attempting to wield the UUA…
Connect with Youth Caucus

Whether you’re going to be in Louisville or going to be checking in on GA happenings from home, there are a few ways to keep up with what’s happening with the Youth Caucus. Watch our Twitter feed Youth media volunteers, Youth Caucus Staff and UUA staff will be using the twitter handle @YouthCaucusGA to keep you up to date with what’s going on in particular sessions and for glimpses into what’s going on around GA. Contact us here if you have questions or thoughts to share! If you’re tweeting, use the hashtags #uuaga and #gayc Visit us on Tumblr and Share your Story You can find us at http://youthcaucus.tumblr.com. A…
Waiting on Justice and Equality

This story includes material re-posted from Huffington Post and SCOTUS Blog. – Ed. US Supreme Court still to rule on major rights cases The Supreme Court did not announce decisions Thursday in hotly anticipated cases on affirmative action, the Voting Rights Act and gay marriage. The court is first expected to make a decision on Fisher v. University of Texas, challenging the university’s affirmative action policy in college admissions. The justices then will likely rule on the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act along with decisions on the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s gay marriage ban, Proposition 8. The court did rule Thursday that companies cannot patent human genes in a…
Drop in Dialogue @ GA

Discuss how to grow UU Faith Greetings, Young Adult Folks! This year at General Assembly, young adults are going to have a great opportunity to have our voices heard in a meaningful way. On Saturday June 22nd from 12:00 – 1:30 pm, the UUA Board of Trustees is hosting a drop-in conversation for young adults centering around 3 questions that speak to how our UU faith might grow in the coming years. There will be conversation about the future of the traditional “congregation” as the center of spirituality and religious development. We’ll also address how decisions are made in our denomination now, how they might be made more democratically, and what we can do to…
Moved by the Movement for Civil Rights

This story is re-posted from the Orlando Sentinel and originally appeared in its June 10, 2013 online edition. The Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice (UUCSJ) offers “Civil Rights Justice Journeys” – click here to learn more. -Ed. Unitarian teens tour civil rights battlefields By Jeff Kunerth, Orlando Sentinel, June 10, 2013 The luggage kept cascading out the back of the two Dodge Grand Caravans as 10 teenagers from Orlando’s University Unitarian Universalist Society prepared Monday for a five-day tour of civil-rights memorials and museums. Once everything was secured, the teens and their three adult chaperones embarked in what passes for vacation Bible school for Unitarians — a road trip to visit the battlefields of…