Hi, UUMFE community! We’re excited that so many of you signed up to attend our Community Read! Our next meeting is on Tuesday, October 28th, and we will continue to meet on the last Tuesday of every month for the next eight months. Below you will find a list of ways to feel prepared for […]
UUMFE chose Ayana Elizabeth Johnson’s What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures (2024) as its first Community Read. The inaugural discussion took place September 30. Over sixty people from the United States and Canada participated. Community Read organizers sought to choose a book that not only recognizes the urgency of climate change […]
This week marked one year since Hurricane Helene ravaged the East Coast of the US, causing record-breaking flooding in North Carolina and beyond. In the words of our former Executive Director, Rev. Kelly Dignan, “Climate change and disruption is real. And it creates anxiety, distress and grief. Part of our mission at UUMFE is to […]
We’re excited that so many of you signed up to attend our Community Read! Our first meeting is tomorrow on Tuesday, September 30th, and we will continue to meet on the last Tuesday of every month for the next nine months. If you haven’t yet, please register to receive the Zoom link and sign up […]
In order to uplift Sun Day events being offered in UU communities, we will be sharing events on our social media as we receive requests. If you have a Sun Day event you would like us to promote, please email comms@uumfe.org no later than 8am CST on Friday, September 19. As an expression of interfaith […]
Our Earth is crying. Can we hear it? With every street that became a river this July, with every home lost, with every human tragedy, a profound truth emerged: We are not separate from the Earth. Her suffering is our suffering. The recent floods—whether close or geographically distant—are spiritually universal. They are not isolated acts […]
UU Ministry for Earth Community, A few weeks ago, I published pictures of myself and other UU’s in front of the US Capitol for UU Hill Day. Led by the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC), the Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice (UUSJ), and the Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth (UUMFE), over 100 UU’s gathered on Hill Day in hopes of slowing, stalling, or […]
We’re dreaming big, and we need your input to ensure UUMFE’s future programming aligns with the needs and interests of our community. If you spoke with us at GA in person, you may have heard us talking about it! The UU Ministry for Earth is conceptualizing an EarthChurch—an innovative new space for the UU community. […]
The UU Ministry for Earth 2025-26 Community Read begins in September! We will be reading “What if We Get it Right?” by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. Sign up here to join the Community Read group email list. We will be sending general reminders in our monthly newsletter, too, but this group will have more opportunities to connect […]
Dear Ones, On the heels of the Unitarian Universalist Association’s General Assembly, I am still filled with the love and hope that gathering as a community of UU’s provides. The strength of our UU faith, which is made up of each one of us, has been reaffirmed to me. This faith is a weaving. It […]
