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November 2025

November Worship: Be Free Anyway

The energy permeating from our rituals and our practice create and enliven pathways in the body and of the heart. How do we tend to those pathways in an upside down world? Join Rev. Mykal on the 3rd Sunday in November for a service of celebration and gratitude for the radical imagining of Buddhism.

Special Reminder: This is Rev. Mykal’s second-to-last worship service as BLUU’s first-ever community minister. Let’s show up and show him love like only the BLUU community can!

Black Sacred Space:

BLUU’s online worship services are Black Sacred Space in their entirety — by and for Black people, with the words and voices of Black folks across the diaspora — and we hope that Black UUs and Black UU-adjacent folks (who share our values) from far and wide will join us!

For our non-Black siblings in faith, please DO share this invitation with Black folks in your life and community. Getting the word out about BLUU’s gatherings and other programming is one powerful way of lending your support, and we deeply appreciate it!

For all of our services, feel free to come into our BLUU Zoom Room as early as 15 minutes before the start of the service to get settled, say hello to the folks who are already gathering, and listen to the music softly playing as we all prepare for our time together.

Join the Community Conversation

It’s the final virtual gathering in our ‘Meet Us by the Fire’ series, and

we want you there! Join us in Black Sacred Space, Wednesday, November 12 for our last community convo of the year.

RSVP for Resourcing Ourselves

BLUU Affordable Housing Cooperative

We’re excited to introduce our pre-application process for families interested in living in an affordable housing cooperative. Register to attend our upcoming training sessions to learn more.

Annual Beloved Meeting

Please join us for our annual Beloved Member Meeting! Come learn about BLUU’s changing governance formation, the ministerial transition, and to gather together in community. More information and a detailed agenda coming soon!

Email info@blacklivesuu.org with questions.

Support BLUU

Since our inception, BLUU has been a beacon for Black people seeking liberation and a deep, inclusive spirituality that honors their lived experiences. We want to continue to be a beacon, but we need your help to do so.

Donations from our UU community and aligned friends support programming, spiritual care, and advances social justice initiatives. BLUU provides spaces for Black folks to feel more connected, allowing us to collectively imagine more possibilities. BLUU Beloveds find strength to fight the systems of oppression and collectively work with our UU community to change them. We also work in solidarity with other marginalized groups across the world; we know none of us are free until we’re all free.

Will you support our efforts by donating today?

Donate to BLUU

Beloveds Get the BLUU Box Free

A collage of Black Unitarian Universalists in worship or gathering together at meetings. Text says Become a BLUU Beloved

Did you know one of the perks of becoming a BLUU Beloved is you get the BLUU Box free? A monthly mini-publication, the digital BLUU Box is a one-of-a-kind way for individuals, small group ministries and congregations to inform, grow and deepen their faith with Black-centered spiritual resources. Start your Beloved journey today!

BLUU Beloveds are Black Unitarian Universalists and other Black spiritual people who want to deepen their connection with each other and their commitment to BLUU by becoming members of BLUU.

Become a BLUU Beloved

Rev. Mykal Slack, our minister, or any of a team of BLUU community pastoral care leaders, can be available for pastoral care. Please call or text our pastoral care line at 984-219-8710 to arrange a time that works for you. We are grateful for your life and will be honored to be on the journey with you.

Pastoral care is a model of emotional and spiritual support that can be found in all cultures and traditions. People who provide pastoral care offer support to people in their joys, sorrows, and uncertainties associated with specific life events occurring while part of the community in which pastoral caregivers serve. Spiritual care is a multi-faceted model of support in individuals’ search for meaning, purpose, wholeness, and connection in day-to-day life.