Headwaters Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

04/13/2026

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04/13/2026

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So much fun with Peter Mayer this weekend! Shout out to all the familiar HUUF member faces in the Bemidji Justice Singers - you all did an amazing job; what a great show!

03/31/2026

03/22/2026

Victoria Safford reminds us today that People have the Power!

VOTE 2020On September 22nd, 2020, the climate action non-profit Pathway to Paris released a new video featuring individuals from around the world singing the...

03/17/2026

A monthly Zoom gathering, open to all!

Love at the Center: Exploring UU Voices

Today, 7-8:30pm

Please see the comment section on this post for the Zoom link

02/26/2026

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Unitarian Univeraslist is a long name, and it is not even very descriptive; we are not using either word's traditional definition.

Our values are a better description of who we are, but they are still 7 words that require context and explanation that not everyone is going to wait around for.

Back at the turn of the century, we UUs talked a lot about the "elevator speech": What is your less-than-a-minute version of what Unitarian Universalism means to you?

This is ours, and we think it makes a fun t-shirt or button.
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01/25/2026

A protest broke out Saturday at the South Texas family detention complex in Dilley, about 70 miles south of San Antonio, after guards abruptly ordered attorneys to leave while detainees — many of them children — poured into open areas of the facility chanting “Libertad,” or "Freedom," according to an immigration attorney who witnessed the event.

Immigration attorney Eric Lee said he was at the Dilley facility for a confidential visit with clients — an immigrant family of six, including five children —when guards began shouting for everyone in the waiting area to leave, citing what they described as “an incident.”

As the Michigan-based attorney walked toward his car, he said he heard what sounded like “hundreds of children” shouting, with voices he described as "high-pitched" and "urgent." He said he could see children streaming from dormitory areas behind a chain-link fence and chanting “Libertad."

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01/25/2026

Letter to the Editor by Michael Armer

When ICE was an outfit we could be proud of.

Once upon a time, I had a guy deported.
I was helping run a foreign exchange program in support of the Irish peace process. The several hundred participants were almost all in their early 20s, and as my old gym teacher used to encourage us to lock our lockers, “Boys, if you put 10 people in a room, one of them will be a crook.”
This young man was more than a crook. While in the program, he committed and was convicted of felony assault of two people. By the time he was released from jail, he had overstayed the visa that allowed him to participate in the program. I recall driving him to the airport and making sure the airplane door shut behind his sorry derriere.
We had quite a few visa overstays. What was especially frustrating was that our program staff could tell federal immigration enforcement, then part of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), exactly where our overstays lived and worked. Regrettably, INS simply didn’t have enough staff to pick them up and get them out of the country. The only way INS could help us with overstays was if a program participant was a felon.
Bingo — now we had a way to get him out of the country.
The INS enforcement officers were from the part of INS we now know as ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement. I was the exchange program’s point of contact with the INS, and the enforcement officers were very professional. There was never any question of conduct unbecoming an officer.
It is no exaggeration to say that many ICE officers seen on TV these days display the polar opposite of that professionalism.
Failure to clearly identify themselves, excessively violent actions, unnecessary face masks, failure to show legally valid authorization, transporting people to foreign countries without a hearing, and the detention of U.S. citizens are wrong on so many levels. Now, an ICE agent shot and killed a Minneapolis woman. My view is that this shooting was an unjustified blunder by an agent who disregarded responsible law-enforcement firearm discipline. I have seen firsthand how our immigration system can responsibly remove dangerous people who are here illegally — but responsible is not what ICE is about these days.

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The following is a letter to the editor submitted by a reader and does not reflect the views of the Pioneer. Letters can be sent to [email protected] or P.O. Box 455, Bemidji, MN 56601.

01/16/2026

Today at noon

MUUSJA - Minnesota Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Alliance Hands-on Solidarity: Concrete Ways to Support Immigrants and Resist the Federal Occupation in MN - 1/16 (CORRECTED TIME), 1/18, 1/20, 1/24

Today, Friday, Jan 16th at noon. Register below

01/16/2026

MUUSJA - Minnesota Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Alliance Hands-on Solidarity: Concrete Ways to Support Immigrants and Resist the Federal Occupation in MN - 1/16 (CORRECTED TIME), 1/18, 1/20, 1/24

Today, Friday, Jan 16th at noon. Register below

01/04/2026

Sean Dunham and special guest Ben Benoit will talk about the Leech Lake Restoration Act Sunday at 10am central.

Check our website Headwatersuu.org. All services are recorded and available for viewing at your leisure. 🎉

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