Come explore the film, “Come Sunday,” which tells the moving story of Bishop Carlton Pearson’s journey from leading an evangelical megachurch to being labeled a heretic for embracing Universalism. After the demise of the megachurch, Pearson’s remaining congregants found a home at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa where he became an Affiliated Minister. In … Continue reading Come Sunday: The Carlton Pearson Story
Based on the book by Mark Morrison-Reed, learn about the Empowerment Controversy that divided Unitarian Universalism in the late 1960s during the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. What happened when the Unitarian Universalist Association responded to demands for change in its approach to racial justice? What can we learn from mistakes of the past?
Find out how our traditional congregational governance practices can get in the way of inclusion and equality. How might we take a fresh look at how we organize our church and how we select and train our leaders? Join us for another chapter on the UUA Commission on Institutional Change Report that recommends how we … Continue reading Widening the Circle: How We Organize. How We Lead
Our sense of caring at GUUF leads us to nurture relationships, build communities and work for justice. Caring also leads to generosity. Find out what science and world religions have to say about generosity and the positive impact it has on our lives.
In his address to the Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly on May 18, 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Don’t sleep through the revolution.” Let’s take a fresh look at that lecture and how it may call to us today. Read the lecture here: https://www.uua.org/ga/past/1966/ware
In similar fashion to Emerson’s “Divinity School Address,” let’s explore another “throwdown” in Unitarian history – Theodore Parker’s controversial 1841 sermon, “The Transient and Permanent in Christianity.” The transient, to him, was Christianity’s theological and scriptural dogma, and the permanent was its moral truths. Find out how Parker’s radical vision of Christianity changed Unitarianism and … Continue reading Theodore Parker Throws it Down
