Central East Region of the UUA
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The Central East Region of the Unitarian Universalist Association covers 9 states: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, most of Ohio, northern Virginia, Washington DC and 1 congregation in Connecticut.
Faithify Friday! So many projects to choose from. What would you like to Faithify today?
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December 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Faithify Friday! So many projects to choose from. What would you like to Faithify today?
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Book Highlight! In the Absence of the Ordinary: Soul Work for Times of Uncertainty–Essays on grief, change, and sacred transitions by Francis Weller. We are at a threshold. This book invites us to embody new ways of being and connecting so we can navigate troubled times together.
In the Absence of the Ordinary
We are at a threshold. As we face uncertain futures, the familiar is falling away. This book invites us to embody new ways of being and connecting so we can navigate troubled times togetherIn his…
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December 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Book Highlight! In the Absence of the Ordinary: Soul Work for Times of Uncertainty–Essays on grief, change, and sacred transitions by Francis Weller. We are at a threshold. This book invites us to embody new ways of being and connecting so we can navigate troubled times together.
Have you looked at Grounded, Resilient, and Responsible: Responding and Organizing in Authoritarian Times? This resource is designed to provide practical support, strategic guidance, and spiritual sustenance as we navigate an increasingly chaotic and urgent landscape.
Responding and Organizing in Authoritarian Times — Side With Love
Side With Love is a public advocacy campaign that seeks to harness love's power to stop oppression. It is sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Association and all are welcome to join. Contact…
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November 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Have you looked at Grounded, Resilient, and Responsible: Responding and Organizing in Authoritarian Times? This resource is designed to provide practical support, strategic guidance, and spiritual sustenance as we navigate an increasingly chaotic and urgent landscape.
Faithify Friday! CER Project! Help First Unitarian Universalist of Columbus, OH support legal aid for immigrants. This is an ambitious project, so please help! Time is running out!
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November 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Faithify Friday! CER Project! Help First Unitarian Universalist of Columbus, OH support legal aid for immigrants. This is an ambitious project, so please help! Time is running out!
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Have you written and presented a sermon on a disability issue or topic between May 1, 2025 and April 30, 2026? If so you are eligible to submit it for the EQUUAL Access Sermon Award. Details at their website.
Sermon Contest Entry Information – EqUUal Access
EQUUAL ACCESS CAROLYN CARTLAND SERMON AWARD CONTEST
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November 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Have you written and presented a sermon on a disability issue or topic between May 1, 2025 and April 30, 2026? If so you are eligible to submit it for the EQUUAL Access Sermon Award. Details at their website.
With Gratitude, this week's post from the Better Together Blog.
With Gratitude
This week starts what I often call the season of gratitude.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
With Gratitude, this week's post from the Better Together Blog.
Children's Book Highlight! This Is How We Talk: A Celebration of Disability and Connection, by Jessica Slice and Caroline Cupp, Illustrated by: Kayla Harren. A new jubilant, inclusive, luminously illustrated picture book that celebrates all the ways we communicate with each other.
This Is How We Talk
From the creators of This Is How We Play is a new jubilant, inclusive, luminously illustrated picture book that celebrates all the ways we communicate with each otherWe sign, write, clap! We tap,…
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November 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Children's Book Highlight! This Is How We Talk: A Celebration of Disability and Connection, by Jessica Slice and Caroline Cupp, Illustrated by: Kayla Harren. A new jubilant, inclusive, luminously illustrated picture book that celebrates all the ways we communicate with each other.
Looking for fun and fellowship in the long winter months? Join us for Winter Institute February 13-16, 2026 at Salt Fork State Park in Cambridge, OH. Registration is open.
Winter Institute 2026
Winter Institute (WI) is a long held tradition of gathering over President’s Day week-end for a mid-winter retreat at Salt Fork State Park in Cambridge, OH
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November 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Looking for fun and fellowship in the long winter months? Join us for Winter Institute February 13-16, 2026 at Salt Fork State Park in Cambridge, OH. Registration is open.
Faithify Friday! Full Hearts, Full Tummies. Help No Child Goes Hungry feed children this holiday season - this non profit is based in the Central East Region.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Faithify Friday! Full Hearts, Full Tummies. Help No Child Goes Hungry feed children this holiday season - this non profit is based in the Central East Region.
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Do you have a t-shirt design idea for this year's Summer Institute Theme, Co-Creating Hope: The Art and Beauty of Resilience? We're taking design proposals!
2025 T-Shirt Design Contest!
We’re excited to announce a logo design competition for this year’s CER Summer Institute Camp T-shirt! Our 2026 theme is “Co-Creating Hope: The Art and Beauty of Resilience.” We invite all campers …
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November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Do you have a t-shirt design idea for this year's Summer Institute Theme, Co-Creating Hope: The Art and Beauty of Resilience? We're taking design proposals!
If you identify as Black, Indigenous, or a person of color (BIPOC), you’re warmly invited to the UUA Central East Region’s monthly BIPOC gathering—a virtual space for connection, reflection, and spiritual grounding. Wednesday, November 19, 6:30 pm ET. Registration is required.
CER BIPOC Monthly Gathering
If you identify as Black, Indigenous, or a person of color (BIPOC), you’re warmly invited to the UUA Central East Region’s monthly BIPOC gathering
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November 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
If you identify as Black, Indigenous, or a person of color (BIPOC), you’re warmly invited to the UUA Central East Region’s monthly BIPOC gathering—a virtual space for connection, reflection, and spiritual grounding. Wednesday, November 19, 6:30 pm ET. Registration is required.
UUA's Outreach and Public Witness Office Offers 101 Webinar Series, from the Better Together Blog. First session is December 4, 2025 at 11 am ET.
UUA's Outreach and Public Witness Office Offers 101 Webinar Series
The UUA's Outreach and Public Witness Office offers a Communications 101 Webinar Series
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November 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
UUA's Outreach and Public Witness Office Offers 101 Webinar Series, from the Better Together Blog. First session is December 4, 2025 at 11 am ET.
Book Highlight! Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church by Eliza Griswold. Americans have been leaving their churches. Some drift away. Some stay home. And some have been searching for—and finding—more authentic ways to find and follow Jesus.
Circle of Hope
A 2024 National Book Award for Non-fiction FinalistA 2024 Publisher's Weekly best Religion book of the year.A New York Times Notable book of 2024.A Pulitzer Prize winner’s intimate portrait of a…
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November 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Book Highlight! Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church by Eliza Griswold. Americans have been leaving their churches. Some drift away. Some stay home. And some have been searching for—and finding—more authentic ways to find and follow Jesus.
If your congregation needs some help thinking about safety in these times, you may want to review the Threats from Without, Care from Within Safety class on UU Institute. This class is free.
Threats from Without, Care from Within
This robust training helps you anticipate and plan responses to violent threats, vandalism, doxxing, and other forms of intimidation and harassment.
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November 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
If your congregation needs some help thinking about safety in these times, you may want to review the Threats from Without, Care from Within Safety class on UU Institute. This class is free.
Faithify Friday! CER Project! Help First UU Columbus, OH, support legal aid for immigrants. This is an ambitious project, so please help!
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November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Faithify Friday! CER Project! Help First UU Columbus, OH, support legal aid for immigrants. This is an ambitious project, so please help!
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Join the Green Sanctuary Community Gathering as we hear from Boise UU Fellowship talk about their plan, Imaging a Carbon Neutral World. November 19 at 7 pm ET.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Join the Green Sanctuary Community Gathering as we hear from Boise UU Fellowship talk about their plan, Imaging a Carbon Neutral World. November 19 at 7 pm ET.
The UU Mental health Network is sponsoring a training for those who want to become a Companion on Saturday, November 15, 1-4 pm ET. Registration is open.
Become a Companion Workshop | UU Mental Health Net
The purpose of the Become a Companion workshop is to present you with the Companionship Model to integrate into your spiritual, personal, or professional life as a healing relational connection tool,…
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November 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The UU Mental health Network is sponsoring a training for those who want to become a Companion on Saturday, November 15, 1-4 pm ET. Registration is open.
Tell Me Your Story, this week's Better Together blog post.
Tell Me Your Story
If we stop to listen to other's stories we may be able to bridge the gaps between us.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Tell Me Your Story, this week's Better Together blog post.
Book Highlight! Raising Awe-Seekers: How the Science of Wonder Helps Our Kids Thrive, Deborah Farmer Kris. What if helping boost kids’ mental and emotional well-being, strengthen their social ties, & support their curiosity & internal motivation were as simple as rediscovering awe?
Raising Awe-Seekers
A truly inspiring book for parents and caregivers, and for the kid inside us all.What if helping boost kids’ mental and emotional well-being, strengthen their social ties, and support their curiosity…
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November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Book Highlight! Raising Awe-Seekers: How the Science of Wonder Helps Our Kids Thrive, Deborah Farmer Kris. What if helping boost kids’ mental and emotional well-being, strengthen their social ties, & support their curiosity & internal motivation were as simple as rediscovering awe?
Join leaders from across the country gather to hear an esteemed guest speak on an emergent issue, hopeful development, or pressing concern in Unitarian Universalism.
This month: members of the Normalizing Change Cohort, Tuesday, November 18 at 7:30 pm ET.
This month: members of the Normalizing Change Cohort, Tuesday, November 18 at 7:30 pm ET.
Congregational Leaders Conversation
Congregational Leaders Conversations are an opportunity to dig into an emergent issue, hopeful development, or pressing concern in Unitarian Universalism
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November 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Join leaders from across the country gather to hear an esteemed guest speak on an emergent issue, hopeful development, or pressing concern in Unitarian Universalism.
This month: members of the Normalizing Change Cohort, Tuesday, November 18 at 7:30 pm ET.
This month: members of the Normalizing Change Cohort, Tuesday, November 18 at 7:30 pm ET.
Faithify Friday! Full Hearts, Full Tummies. Help No Child Goes Hungry feed children this holiday season - this non profit is based in the Central East Region.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Faithify Friday! Full Hearts, Full Tummies. Help No Child Goes Hungry feed children this holiday season - this non profit is based in the Central East Region.
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Join us for The Gathering, Monday, November 10 at 8 pm ET. This month we are joined by UU the Vote to talk about Democracy.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Join us for The Gathering, Monday, November 10 at 8 pm ET. This month we are joined by UU the Vote to talk about Democracy.
Is your congregation considering change or experimenting with change? This program is for you. Normalizing Change in Congregational/Communal Life, November 15, 2-6 pm ET.
Normalizing Change in Congregational/Communal Life
Change is a constant: in everyday life and in the life of congregations.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Is your congregation considering change or experimenting with change? This program is for you. Normalizing Change in Congregational/Communal Life, November 15, 2-6 pm ET.
People Power: UUs in Georgia are Energized for Utility Justice from UU World.
A growing number of Georgia UUs, passionate about promoting green energy and bringing down soaring utility bills, are making their voices heard across their state.
A growing number of Georgia UUs, passionate about promoting green energy and bringing down soaring utility bills, are making their voices heard across their state.
People Power: UUs in Georgia are Energized for Utility Justice
A growing number of Georgia UUs, passionate about promoting green energy and bringing down soaring utility bills, are making their voices heard across their state.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
People Power: UUs in Georgia are Energized for Utility Justice from UU World.
A growing number of Georgia UUs, passionate about promoting green energy and bringing down soaring utility bills, are making their voices heard across their state.
A growing number of Georgia UUs, passionate about promoting green energy and bringing down soaring utility bills, are making their voices heard across their state.
When to Call the Region from the Better Together Blog.
When to Call the Region
We often have folks ask why would I call the region or the UUA? Here is a quick list to help you figure out what we would love to chat with you about.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
When to Call the Region from the Better Together Blog.