A new art class is being offered in the Gallery on the Pali. Sign up now!
Over 25 people have registered to join us for this year’s Hope Circle — a process to engage in a loving and direct look at FUCH’s recent history together in a facilitated and compassionate space, in support of our relationships with one another. An introduction and “kick off” to the work will happen this Sunday, […]
This month, we’re taking action together. In this week’s newsletter, learn how you can take action for our community, learn about Harvesting Aloha for the Holidays, and find ways to support Aloha Harvest throughout September through our 7-Eleven canister campaign and Give Aloha. Taking Action for Our Community September brings together two important causes: Hunger […]
View this email as a webpage. Image description: The Side With Love logo is next to the words “Tending SOIL” in purple and green font. Underneath in italics reads: “Nourishing Justice Leadership in UU Congregations”. Beneath, in black text over a yellow text box, reads: “Skills. Organizing. Interdependence. Liberation.” If you had the amazing congregational […]
Dear UUWF Community, September is Sexual Health Awareness Month, and we’re thinking about what sexual health and liberation can teach us about building an irresistible feminist future. A feminist future is one where people have the knowledge, autonomy, resources, and freedom to make decisions about their bodies, relationships, and sexual lives without shame or stigma. 5 Ways to […]
Please see below for an invitation from our friends at First Unitarian Portland: You are invited to join an Antiracism Learning Circle this fall. It’s on Zoom, so you can join from anywhere. Invite your friends, too. Learning Circles start the week of September 21, 2026. REGISTRATION plus full descriptions, schedules, and additional information is HERE. A printable flyer is HERE. The website is HERE. […]
To the Interfaith `Ohana of Hawai`i and The Interfaith Alliance of Hawai`i: Here are interfaith events occurring this weekend and through early October for the International Day of Peace. Most are reminders, but the “Ring Your Bell for Peace” event is new. A Public Discourse Event for National Literacy Month is being held tomorrow evening […]
Registration closes Monday, September 22 at noon.
Hello, friends, When asked how she maintains hope in these times, Jane Fonda said, “I think we have to become living ambassadors to an irresistible future where everybody will be seen and respected by their government. Where everybody feels they are taken care of.” We believe that just as women+ and girls+ are disproportionately impacted by injustice, […]
September 2026 View this email in your browser A Contrast in Class Life Stories Let’s Be Like Dolly By Betsy Leondar-Wright UUCC Cofounder Let’s compare two people who rose to fame from hardscrabble childhoods in Appalachia, the late Dolly Parton and J.D. Vance. One spoke about her parents with reverence and shed light on the causes […]
September 2026 September Worship: Homecoming During the first worship service of September, as UU’s, we celebrate the beginning of a new “church year” known as Homecoming or Ingathering. It is a time to reconnect with our community of Beloveds. It is a time to reach out to those we have lost contact with, check on them, […]
Aloha, My name is Nicole Ames, and I am the Election Protection Organizer with Common Cause Hawaiʻi, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and strengthening democracy. As we prepare for the 2026 General Election, we are looking to partner with community organizations, faith groups, and civic-minded individuals to recruit volunteers and help ensure all […]
If you’re having trouble viewing this email, you can see it online. Visit UU Ministry for Earth online at uumfe.org. Please support our work. Letter from the Director What’s New from UUMFE Connect with Our Partners in Climate Justice This month’s recipe Dear Ones, We begin the month of September as we begin anything – embodying varying […]
View this email as a webpage. Image description: The Side With Love logo with “Side With Love” in orange block letters next to a hand drawn black heart. September asks something different of us than August did. The work we’ve been building toward all summer starts to show its shape: eleven regional Solidarity Summits, turning this […]
Email not displaying correctly? VIEW IT in your browser. Dear Friends, Your UUA Newsletter email has become UU Connections, with a new look and feel as we continue to offer timely resources and updates from the UUA to a wider Unitarian Universalist audience. If someone you know would like to receive this email twice monthly in their […]
The rules exist until someone changes them. So that’s what I decided to do. Hi there: I’ll let you in on a secret. Book clubs intimidate me. Most book clubs read one book each month, discuss the book one time, and then move on to the next book. I don’t read particularly fast, and I […]
UU Women’s Federation September Events! September is packed with connection, reflection, and action at UUWF! We’re back! We missed you! After taking time this summer to rest, reflect, and regroup, UUWF is excited to return to programming and reconnect with our community. We’re coming back refreshed and ready to offer cohesive, meaningful programming designed to […]
Love animals? Did you know there’s a UU organization dedicated to honoring and protecting them?
Call your governor now to object to Hawaii troops sent to D.C.!
Aloha!! After Lala, having seen “Mary Oliver, Saved By the Beauty of the World” the moving documentary on my trip to NYC, I thought of her poem… Hurricane It didn’t behave like anything you had ever imagined. The wind tore at the trees, the rain fell for days slant and hard. The back of the […]
