It doesn’t happen that often, but there we were, a thousand or more strong, gathered on the heels of the Supreme Court decision that overturned the long held basic rights of women to reproductive freedom, to reproductive justice, to agency over their own bodies. And we could not sit still for that. We marched in Portland, Oregon, letting our voices be heard, bearing witness to this egregious attack on human rights. It doesn’t happen so frequently that one of the selected A

Recently I read an article 1 about the renewal of a crumbling New Jersey church that became a model for reinvestment in community life entitled, “Fix It and They Will Come.” It told the story of an Essex County UU church whose building was literally crumbling before their eyes and whose congregation had shrunk in size by half over the past ten years. They were seriously thinking about closing their doors. The policies that had shaped post-industrial cities like theirs had tak

This past year we adopted revisions to our by-laws. It had been a long time – maybe 15 years! Needless to say, a lot can happen in that amount of time. We updated the language in general so it is more gender inclusive, replacing the all-male “he” phrases with “he/she.” This is a step in the right direction, not quite all the way there. It is still reflective of a gender binary that is not realistic, but we can work on that. We added our mission statement which is new si