Thankful to finally return to the #EarthDay service at my #UU congregation after two weeks away, even if I am finding myself still a little slow. Started the morning with some wonderful #uke practice where I actually a) had enough voice to sing all 4 songs and b) actually got most of the chords right. Things are definitely looking up more than they were.
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The #UnitarianUniversalist congregation in Oakland has a pretty cool church. I just dropped off my son and his friend (via BART) for a youth event.
Flowers from my Unitarian church 🐰🐣🌷🌹💐
Happy Day of Resurrection 😊
🏙 Region: Boston, United States
🏛️ POI: First Church in Boston
❓ Have you ever taken a multi-day sightseeing tour?
➡ See the sights like a local in Boston: https://visitsights.com/sights/United%20States/Boston
#️⃣ #UnitarianUniversalist #Sights #Religion #Boston #Church #UnitedStates #Sightseeing #Travel #Amenity #PlaceOfWorship #Building
During the pandemic I left my brick snd mortar #unitarianuniversalist #church in favor of an online congregation, and I love all the righteously angry music they choose to play.
🏙 Town: Baltimore, United States
🏛️ Sight: First Unitarian Church
❓ What's the most beautiful scenery you've ever seen while sightseeing?
➡ Experience the beauty of Baltimore: https://visitsights.com/sightseeing-tours/United%20States/Baltimore
#️⃣ #Baltimore #Travel #Religion #Sights #Amenity #UnitedStates #Sightseeing #Building #UnitarianUniversalist #PlaceOfWorship
#Maine: #HoultonME rally against #Trump administration was one of 16 in Maine
by Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli, March 3, 2025
HOULTON, Maine — "Fifty-two people stood together in the rain on Saturday afternoon in downtown Houlton, wearing black armbands and carrying signs calling for the restoration of the nation.
"The rally was one of more than a dozen around the state on Saturday against the new administration of President Donald #Trump. Co-organizer Marilyn Roper said it was meant to draw attention to what demonstrators see as the recent loss of so many of the nation’s rights and the dismantling of government agencies. They also urged support for #Ukraine in its war against #Russia.
"Also over the weekend, demonstrators gathered at the State House in Augusta to protest the Maine Principal’s Association’s rules allowing transgender student athletes to participate in sports divisions that align with their actual gender, which have sparked the ongoing threats by the Trump administration to cut Maine’s federal funding.
"As the group of Houlton-area residents stood in silence displaying messages of restoration, passing drivers honked in solidarity. They specifically called for the restoration of law and order, decency, democracy, and the U.S. Agency for International Development [#USAID], among other things.
"During one stretch of time, the only vocal opposition came from a man driving a black pick-up truck, who yelled his disapproval out the window as he drove by.
"Roper is part of a statewide peace and justice group that co-organized the March 1 rallies in 16 communities, with one each in every Maine county. Some of the other demonstrations were in #BangorME, #SkowheganME, #CalaisME, #Damariscotta and #PortlandME.
"Several participating in the Houlton rally expressed their disgust and shame regarding Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance’s berating of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office on Friday.
"Others bemoaned what they see as so many losses since the January inauguration.
"Houlton resident Bertrand Laurence said that even people who choose to not be involved are making a political statement.
"A core group of local organizers has been meeting regularly over the years to plan this and other activities related to issues of #SocialJustice and democracy.
"Following Saturday’s one-hour rally, organizers met at the #UnitarianUniversalist Church to plan future actions, including an upcoming postcard mailing campaign to the White House, said Roper.
"The postcards, slated for a March 15 mailing, will be addressed directly to Trump as a public expression of opposition to his behaviors and policies.
"'May the rallies in Maine and across the country bring about some halt in the destruction of our democracy and restoration of so much lost,' Roper said."
Source:
https://thecounty.me/2025/03/03/county-politics/houlton-rally-against-trump-administration-was-one-of-16-in-maine/
#MaineProtest #BadDOGE #USPol #MainePol #MaineProtests #Resist #ResistFascism #ResistDOGE #SixteenCounties
🏙 City: Boston, United States
🏛️ Attraction: First Church in Boston
❓ What's the most historically significant sight you've visited?
➡ Check out more sights in Boston: https://visitsights.com/sights/United%20States/Boston
#️⃣ #Sights #Sightseeing #Religion #Building #Boston #UnitedStates #Travel #PlaceOfWorship #UnitarianUniversalist #Church #Amenity
#Humanism #UnitarianUniversalist Principles/Affirmations comparison.
What do you think?
I admit I was surprised when I found out that the Unitarian Universalist religious movement accepts atheists, humanist, etc, among the deist & theist. All I knew was that they are a liberal church so I assumed they were a christian liberal denomination. Oh my! how pleasantly wrong was I.
The North Shore Unitarians, Vancouver, Canada - living by 8 principles - no dogma, deity optional. We just got a new sign and are wondering what y'all think of the tag line "Diverse beliefs - Shared values"? Does that work for you as a Unitarian? #unitarian
#uu
#unitarianuniversalist
#liberalreligion
Beautiful, meaningful and funny Christmas/seasonal reflection from our "no dogma, deity optional" lay led North Shore Unitarians congregation in Vancouver, BC #unitarian #unitarianuniversalist #UU @DougMuder @McPatrick @milkman https://youtu.be/94ivEKNg-XU?si=LBM8UI2tnzc8AeJb&t=2721 Link starts just before the reflection. Please boost/share onward if it resonates
@N3VEM we have CERSI here in the Ohio and Pennsylvania area, that sounds very similar to this:
https://www.cersiuu.org/about/
it's basically a regional #UU / #UnitarianUniversalist thing for adults and kids that has programming in these topics for both
there might be something similar in your area
I had an idea, that feels like someone must be doing - feels like it would make a good #UnitarianUniversalist thing. Basically do a week in the summer, that is just like the vacation bible schools that lots of churches do, but instead it's all social justice themed, speakers from community activist groups, kids activities to introduce the concepts of social justice, bus the group to an organized protest etc.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone.
#spirituality #unitarianuniversalist
https://www.livescience.com/25779-christmas-traditions-history-paganism.html
Also also, the fact that this congregation… do #UnitarianUniversalist organizations call them congregations? Anyway, they had their hymn book in #Braille so I could actually follow along! There was one copy for 3 blind people, but they did say we just had to let them know if we plan to attend regularly and they can order more. Pretty sure that’s gonna be my most pleasant surprise of #Accessibility and #Inclusion all week. :)
Morning, mastodon!! Yesterday, I did a thing. I attended a #UnitarianUniversalist service for the first Tyne!! In addition to being a beautiful service, I heard a song that really resonated with me. I’m not sure why exactly, but when songs move my spirit in some way I don’t question it too much. I do share such songs, though, so have a song. :)
Blue Boat Home: https://youtu.be/WhsXl1_rEwI?si=_ZnGtK5qnztVavMb
By UUA minister Richard M. Woodman (died 2020) :
“ We who view the Christmas story from a naturalistic perspective easily read the impossible into the attendant notice of miraculous events: chorus of angels, virgin birth and the strange star.
Yet isn’t the miracle only *embroidered* with these tales?
The impossible event is that in times of deepest despair, visions and inspirations of hope, of peace, of love come to all.”
#Unitarians #UUA #UnitarianUniversalist #RingwoodUnitarians #Christmas
I’ve been thinking about authoritarianism & fascism from an #ecotheology perspective: how animal communities remove bad leaders from power…and what ecological succession might tell us about how political and economic systems lay the groundwork for their own failing and the next system’s rise. 🤔
@andymcmillan if by "secular church" you mean community without religious dogma, try checking out a #UnitarianUniversalist congregation: https://www.uua.org/find or https://cuc.ca/unitarian-universalism/find-a-congregation/ . Community without dogma is what they do. (If you are in North America, that is; UUs are thinner on the ground in Laos and Chad.)
