In the summer of 2020, after the racial justice protests around the country, a group of Houghton alumni came together to write and deliver an open letter to the Houghton-Portage…
Over the course of decades, traditional local news operations have been wrung dry. New models of journalism, including nonprofits, offer sustainability for community journalism that gives even tiny communities the…
The topic of this Forum will focus on our responses to what happened at the Capitol in Washington D.C. on January 6th. We will call upon our UU values to…
Professor JD Slack addresses “the crisis of expertise” in which the value and advice of “experts,” most notably in the sciences, are increasingly being challenged and disregarded. She explores the…
Circles is a relationship-based program designed to help families move out of poverty permanently. It matches low-income individuals (or families) with two middle-income partners. These new friends (Allies) help broaden…
Jessica Anderson presents the "Cult of True Womanhood," Suffragettes endured campaigns designed to divide and abolish their movement. There was also a growing contingent of female suffragettes that wanted to…
Merle Kindred discusses her experiences working in Guyana, which is a birder’s paradise, with over 900 species available to birders with binoculars.