News and updates from the Central East Region of the UUA to keep your congregation informed. Opportunities for Connection CER Update ~ February 2022 Quick Links Featured Resource: Faithify.org Find Your Primary Contact CER Website Better Together Blog UU Leadership Institute CER Events CER Webinars CER News UUA Job Board Submit a Job to be PostedCongregation … Continue reading CER Update – February 2022
Unitarian Universalists pay attention to justice issues and we are known for speaking out. The ideal of “Beloved Community” motivates many of us, and we sometimes use this phrase as shorthand for our most cherished shared beliefs. Well, what are our beliefs? Why do they turn Unitarian Universalism toward justice? How do they call us … Continue reading UUA News – February 2022
As the first month of 2022 draws to a close, I am sending you love and so much care. I have never experienced anything like this extended period of uncertainty, isolation, discouragement, loss and heartbreak. I hear from so many corners how exhausted our religious professionals and leaders are. The constant planning and changing plans. … Continue reading UUA News – January 2022
UUA Newsletter – January 2022 from Rachel Walden Unitarian Universalist Association Dear Friends, As the new year unfolds, the UUA continues to develop inspiring programs and resources for Unitarian Universalists, UU congregations, and communities. Informed as always by the opportunities and upheavals in our wider world, UUA staff have crafted some new programs and events … Continue reading UUA News – January 2022
Opportunities for Connection CER Update ~ January 2022 Quick Links Featured Resource: Disaster Relief Fund Find Your Primary Contact CER Website Better Together Blog UU Leadership Institute CER Events CER Webinars CER News UUA Job Board Submit a Job to be Posted Congregation & Cluster Events Stewardship for Us Blog In Spirit – UUA Bookstore … Continue reading CER Update Jan 2022
Donate to the auction by midnight January 19! Have you learned to love shopping online? Shop for a cause! Auction and Eco-Justice are teaming up to bring you food, fun, frolic, and guilt-free stuff. Good Stuff! lasts from January 20–27. Bid on gently used items and crafts. What a green way to shop! A Blue … Continue reading First UU Auction 2022
As the year draws to a close, we’re reflecting on the ways that Unitarian Universalists were able to thrive in spite of so much turmoil and uncertainty. Whether we liked it or not, we had many opportunities to practice a new normal for Unitarian Universalism, and we continued to provide life-saving ministry regardless of changing … Continue reading UUA News – December 2021
An update from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers U.S. Department of Justice indicts the “Patricio Transnational Criminal Organization (TCO)” on felony charges of “international forced labor trafficking,” money laundering; 54-count indictment paints picture of operation’s staggering scale: 24 arrests, 71,000 farmworkers over multiple years, more than $200 million in profits;Quotes from indictment: Patricio TCO “unlawfully charged Victims … Continue reading Update from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
UUA Newsletter – November 2021 from Rev. Dr. Susan Frederick-Gray Unitarian Universalist Association To our UU community, As our lives become busy making plans with friends and family and holiday celebrations in our congregations, I am mindful that this year marks the 52nd annual Day of Mourning protest—an event that began when Frank Wamsutta … Continue reading UUA News 11-2021
With all of the changes and complications arising in the ways our Unitarian Universalist communities can gather together during the COVID 19 pandemic, many of us feel frozen in place, ambivalent, or uncertain about how to live into our faith today. And yet we have signposts, as Rev. Tania Yadira Márquez writes in Call from … Continue reading UUA News 10-28-2021
