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  • As a people of one shared Faith and as single congregations tied to others through our Unitarian Universalist Association, many of us are gathering our hopes for what the upcoming calendar year will bring.

    By Natalie Briscoe | January 4, 2024 | From Southern Region

  • One of the important tasks we take on as Unitarian Universalists who hold Love as our core value is the study of how love moves among us, transforms us, and is incarnated by us....

    By Natalie Briscoe | December 1, 2023 | From Southern Region

  • Sending leaders to a Leadership Experience is an investment in the future of a congregation and in the future of Unitarian Universalism. Leadership Experience (LE) participants are more grounded in Unitarian Universalism and hear a deeper call to serve....

    By Natalie Briscoe | November 1, 2023 | From Southern Region
    Tagged as: Leadership Development
  • A UU Institute course banner with the wording "The Strategic UU Board 260" in white letters on a purple background with a photo of a brass measuring instrument to the right.

    Members of your Southern Region worked with Team LeaderLab & UU Institute to bring the new Leading Large Board Retreat to our large congregations this summer....

    By Lillian Drab-Braddick | September 28, 2023 | From Southern Region
    Tagged as: Governing Boards, Leadership Development

  • Your Southern Region Staff is looking forward to another great year of learning, loving, and leading with you! We are so thrilled to share meaningful partnership with you this year through multiple opportunities for guidance and leadership development in our Southern Region programming. Most...

    By Natalie Briscoe | August 2, 2023 | From Southern Region
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    If you are a Minister, Religious Educator, or President in a Congregation in the South, you will be hearing from Southern Region Staff this Fall!...

    By Natalie Briscoe | July 5, 2023 | From Southern Region
  • Logo for Our Whole Lives Sexuality Education series

    I am a Unitarian Universalist and a Kentuckian. For so many reasons in the last few years, my heart has broken with the horrific treatment of people who are made to suffer simply because of their LGBTQ/TGQNB identity. As a UU religious educator, my heart gravitates to young people, who are on a...

    By Nancy Combs-Morgan | May 30, 2023 | From Southern Region
    Tagged as: Sexuality Education
  • Boundaries_and_Covenant

    When we lean into creative conflict, doing our best to create courageous space, we must understand that it can’t be accomplished without setting boundaries. I would never suggest that anyone should put up with any kind of abuse. In loving relationships people should know one another’s needs,...

    By Connie Goodbread | May 23, 2023 | From Southern Region
    Tagged as: Covenant
  • Seen from high above, a human crowd forms two hands and a heart shape on white background

    No, it’s not a thing yet. But I’m definitely going to make it happen! The creation of Unitarian Universalism as one denomination occurred when the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of America joined on May 15, 1961. Once combined, the new Unitarian Universalist...

    By Natalie Briscoe | May 2, 2023 | From Southern Region
    Tagged as: Principles and Purposes, UU History
  • intersecting street signs, with the words "impossible" and "possible," in front of blue sky and clouds background

    As human beings we are conflict avoidant – until we are not. Then we are willing to destroy one another. Conflict begins when there is more than one idea, opinion, or experience in the room. We are so conflict avoidant that we even avoid using the word conflict for this experience. We can’t see...

    By Connie Goodbread | April 19, 2023 | From Southern Region
    Tagged as: Change & Conflict