A Letter from Swamini Adityananda Saraswati Chair, UUMFE Last month, global leaders came together for climate justice at the United Nations’ COP30 meetings in Brazil. What they left behind were empty promises in a time when we quite simply don’t have time. Since 1970, 60% of our world’s species have gone extinct. The UN Environment Program […]
Hi, UUMFE community! Our next meeting is on Tuesday, November 25th, and we will continue to meet on the last Tuesday of every month January-May 2026. (Please note that we are skipping December.) Below you will find a list of ways to feel prepared for our connection and discussion. To prepare for our next session […]
About Rev. Lauren Rev. Lauren Spivey Levwood is a long-time member of the UU Ministry for Earth community. A board member since 2022, she served as Chair of the Board of Directors from 2024 – 2025 before moving into the position of Acting Director in 2025. A religious naturalist and longtime environmentalist, Rev. Lauren is spiritually nourished by […]
Our hearts are with the people of Haiti, the Bahamas, Cuba, and Jamaica in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa. We are grateful for organized disaster relief efforts, such as the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee’s much needed response. This is what love looks like in action. Here is a quote from UUSC’s press release: “UUSC partners […]
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 […]
