UU Expressions
UU Expressions Welcome to UU Expressions: Love in Real Life, a 10 episode docu-series that discovers, celebrates, and challenges how Unitarian Universalism (UUism) is practiced across Canada in 2024. Blogpost coming soon *** Call...
Congregational Safety: More Questions Than Answers
Congregational Safety: More Questions Than Answers A few decades ago, congregational safety may have seemed relatively simple, a matter of determining how many fire extinguishers a church building needed to have or what the...
Uncolonize or Decolonize?
Uncolonize or Decolonize? We’ve had a lot of people ask us why we use the terms uncolonize and decolonize. They often wonder if they are interchangeable terms or if we mean to say decolonize. ...
Old Ways Won’t Open New Doors
Old Ways Won’t Open New Doors There is a hard truth that I think we all know, but that we, or at least I, spend a fair amount of time denying. Change is inevitable. ...
The Breath that Sustains Us
The Breath that Sustains Us On Sunday, May 15, 2022 over 300 Unitarian Universalists (UUs) across Canada attended a virtual national worship service like no other. There were no speakers, and it did not...
My experience at the CUC Young Adult Retreat
My experience at the CUC Young Adult Retreat I was floating in water so clear I could see the bottom. I sat on a paddleboard and relaxed on the pond. Dragonflies danced around me....
How to Shake Up a Church
How to Shake Up a Church Adapted from Meg Muckenhoupt and Dan Harper It is the middle of October and the local Unitarian Universalist (UU) Director of Religious Exploration (DRE) is in a spooky...
Ripples of Creativity
Ripples of Creativity Have you noticed how creative ideas and events inspire other innovations? And the more you pay attention, the more you see? We have! And we’re excited to make it an intentional...
Truth and reconciliation again? How to move out of shame and into accountability
Truth and reconciliation again? How to move out of shame and into accountability Introduction September 30th is known across Turtle Island as Orange Shirt Day, or Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It’s...
Inclusion in Action: An Organizational Culture Shift Tool
Inclusion in Action: An Organizational Culture Shift Tool In November 2021, the Canadian Unitarian Council (CUC) committed to “Accountably dismantle racism and other barriers to full inclusion.” Making this decision required a lot of...
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