Posted on February 14, 2024 by Roger Brewin In honor of Darwin Day on Friday, The UU Humanist Association is excited to offer a free Zoom presentation and celebrate the birthday, the work, and the legacy of Charles Darwin. Darwin Day - A Zoom Conversation with Rev. David Breeden and the UUHA Date: Sunday, February 18 Time: 7:00pm Eastern (6:00pm Central | 5:00pm Mountain | 4:00pm Pacific) Where: Zoom (Login instructions are listed below) Read more about DARWIN DAY: A Zoom Conversation with Rev. Breeden & the UUHA ..read more

Posted on October 29, 2023 by davidbreeden7@gmail.com Read more about Rev. David Breeden: A Philosophy of Radical Humanist Welcome » A Philosophy of Radical Humanist Welcome Rev. Dr. David Breeden, Senior Minister, First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis   A philosophy of radical welcome rooted in Humanism necessarily dives to to the very essence of what it means to be human, to be human in the fullness of human potential, and to be human in a community of care.   As so many of the world’s religious and philosophical writings advise, and as evolution appears to have selected for, w ..read more

Posted on May 31, 2023 by Justin Jagoe Please join the UUHA on Thursday for a terrific online discussion! Evidence-Based Solutions with the Citizens' Climate Lobby UU Action Team Thursday, June 1st at 8:00pm Eastern/7:00pm Central. Read more about ONLINE ZOOM CONVERSATION: Evidence-Based Solutions with the Citizens' Climate Lobby UU Action Team ..read more

Posted on May 5, 2023 by Justin Jagoe Please join the UUHA in a few weeks for a terrific online discussion! Imagine There’s No Heaven:  A Humanist Approach to Mortality and Memorial with Rabbi Adam Chalom Thursday, May 18th at 8:00pm Eastern/7:00pm Central. If this life is the only life we know, how do we face that reality with courage? If loss is final, how can we celebrate life while acknowledging the depth of our grief? Our connections to other people give our lives meaning and are the key to addressing our mortality and the human need for memorial. Love transcends nature, weavin ..read more

Posted on February 9, 2023 by Roger Brewin Read more about RELIGIOUS HUMANISM JOURNAL: Call for Submissions - "Humanist Work and Communities, A Compendium" » For the upcoming issue of the Journal of Religious Humanism (Volume 50 #2), we are seeking submissions.   This issue's theme will be "Humanist Work and Communities, A Compendium"   The UUHA plans a volume of short articles about groups and individuals who perform significant humanist work, and/or offer community and services for non-theists.    We seek suggestions of individuals and groups who write or publish books a ..read more

Posted on January 25, 2023 by Justin Jagoe Humanist writer and activist Luciano Gonzalez-Vega will join the UUHA for a conversation about their life, work, and vision for an active and action-oriented humanism in the year ahead. Luciano’s writing about the intersections of religion, freethought, and culture has been prominently featured in The Humanist and OnlySky media. They also served as co-chair of the Latinx Humanist alliance, and have been affiliated with the Secular Latino Alliance and Hispanic American Freethinkers. We will have a chance to learn about Luciano’s own religious roots an ..read more

Posted on December 30, 2022 by Roger Brewin We are pleased to announce the publication of our latest edition of the UUHA's official publication, the Journal of Religious Humanism. Paid UUHA members should receive a digital copy of the journal via email today. Our latest issue of the journal is "How We Live Out Our Humanism, Part II" Read more about "How We Live Out Our Humanism, part II" Edition of Religious Humanism Journal Available to Members Today ..read more

Posted on December 30, 2022 by Leika Lewis-Cornwell Dear UUHA Members, We hope 2022 has held plenty of moments of joy for you and your family; perhaps getting to gather again for the holidays as we emerge from the long pandemic and the isolation it brought to many of us, perhaps enjoying new traditions and making new memories together. We hold lightly, in community, any pain that has touched your life.  Read more about Please Support the UUHA in the New Year ..read more

Posted on December 11, 2022 by Roger Brewin “How We Live Out Our Humanism, Part II” Vol 50 #1 of the journal Religious Humanism, will be available to UUHA members, mid-December, 2022. “I was in philosophy class … when the professor asked how many of us believed we could have a moral world without Christianity. I alone raised my hand,” writes Beth Lefever, “and then said that I didn’t believe Jesus would be a Christian were he here today. I was not very popular in my (conservative) northern Indiana university,” she adds, beginning a heart-felt account of her journey to UU Humanism and to paris ..read more

Posted on September 5, 2022 by Roger Brewin This op-ed was written by The Rev. Dr. Lucas Hergert, minister of the North Shore Unitarian Church in Deerfield, Illinois. He will teach Ethics at Meadville Lombard Theological School during the coming academic year.   How do Unitarian Universalists and other religious and secular progressives frame a response to the demise of Roe v. Wade? Kate Greasley’s book Arguments about Abortion: Personhood, Morality, and Law (2017) offers a thorough defense of the pro-choice position. Written before the Supreme Court scuttled Roe, Greasley’s jus ..read more