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In a comprehensive effort to reimagine the transitions system for Unitarian Universalist ministers and dismantle barriers that prevent full inclusion in the religious leadership of the faith, the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) launched the Transitions Review Task Force (TRTF) in June 2025. The UUA helps to connect ministers searching for a position with congregations that want to find a minister. The task force was appointed by Rev.

In a pair of rulings on Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld state laws that ban transgender women and girls from participating in female sports and rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to limit birthright citizenship. The Unitarian Universalist Association, which tracked the two cases because of their relevance to UU values, shared separate statements on the Supreme Court opinions. In Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v.

As told to Ethan Loewi. Interview condensed for length. I’m a fourth-generation member of the Unitarian Church of Jowai, in northeast India. It was the first Unitarian church in the region, founded in 1887 by Hajom Kissor Singh. We know each other so well here because our parents know each other, and we grew up with the church. There’s a closeness that I feel with the community, and I think everyone in the church shares the same feeling.

As Unitarian Universalists continue to reimagine where and how they come together to worship and create community, more than two thousand embraced an experimental approach to this year’s General Assembly, the annual meeting of the Unitarian Universalist Association, where they gathered to recommit to resisting oppression and working for collective liberation.

Rev. Dr. Clyde Grubbs, a lifelong UU who has served in many of the faith’s leadership positions and as a mentor and spiritual director for countless people, has received the 2026 Award for Distinguished Service to the Cause of Unitarian Universalism. One of the most prestigious awards given by the UUA, it is bestowed annually upon someone who, over a considerable period of time, exemplifies what Unitarian Universalism stands for. Rev.

In January, in response to increasingly aggressive and ultimately deadly tactics by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, local Unitarian Universalists banded together and with community partners. They were joined by hundreds of UUs from around the country who answered a call to show up, where in sub-zero temperature they and thousands of others marched and sang to send a powerful message: Love is greater than ICE.

For the first time—for a few days, at least—General Assembly was all business. In an experimental approach to doing the work of the Unitarian Universalist Association’s annual General Assembly (GA), this year the business portion was held June 14–16 entirely online and separately from the rest of GA programming.

Two religious educators—Cathy Seggel and Rev. Leia Durland-Jones—were recognized at the 2026 UUA General Assembly for their longtime contributions to UU faith development with the Angus H. MacLean Award for Excellence in Religious Education.

The 2026-27 Unitarian Universalist Association Common read is the collection of essays Love at the Center: Unitarian Universalist Theologies, edited by UUA President Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt. UUA 2026-27 Common Read Love at the Center: Unitarian Universalist Theologies Purchase the book We may agree that love is central, but what does that mean to us and what does it require of us?

Be still. Feel yourself breathing—in and out. Feel your heart beating rhythmically—dub ah dub ah dub ah dub. Imagine your blood moving along through your arteries, small cells, each with a nucleus, each containing the map that makes them part of you. Each cell bumping and twisting. Moving along. Endless transfer of energy and nutrients as your blood cells deliver oxygen to all parts of your body. And in that endless motion is the story of our beginnings.