KUUF has three Move Forward Teams focused on creating specific and meaningful actions in the lifelong work of “dismantling racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.” That quote…
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…
The title is from James Baldwin's Essay, “The Fire Next Time.” What Shall We Do With All This Beauty is the question Baldwin closes that essay with. We’ll talk about…

Active Persistence

July 26, 2020
What role does persistence have during the time of the pandemic and social, economic and political upheaval.  What are the thoughts on persistence in our Unitarian Universalist tradition?  How might…
Elen Maurer, KUUF Board of Trustees President, will talk about her experiences at June’s General Assembly (GA).  The GA is an annual gathering of thousands of Unitarian Universalists, and this…
Rev. Joseph Santos-Lyons will speak on LOSING FAITH, MAKING CHANGE.  It is a simple axiom that to achieve social justice, enough people must lose faith in the institutions that oppress…

Relational Identity

June 21, 2020
Rachel McDonald will explore stories about how relationships shape us and serve as a source of perpetual renewal.
Merle Kindred discusses her experiences working in Guyana, which is a birder’s paradise, with over 900 species available to birders with binoculars.
Borrowing from Theodore Parker’s sermon, “The Transient and the Permanent in Christianity,” I will see if I can build a reflection on the permanent and transient in our faith from…
A look at Rev. Theodore Parker (1810-1860), who was an American Transcendentalist, minister of the Unitarian church, a reformer and abolitionist; his words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches…