HUUMS - Harvard Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Students

10/25/2022

HUUMS HDS alumni: a current UU student at HDS is doing a research project on HUUMS for a class and is interested in connecting to discuss memories related to your time in HUUMS. There is no information currently available between 1983 and 2011. If you are interested, you can reach the student at [email protected].

08/31/2022

Today is the first day of classes at Harvard Divinity School and was also the first Noon Service of the year, where different faith traditions get to put on a service for the wider HDS community. HUUMS was honored to be the first facilitators for the new school year, and we put together a familiar water communion tradition to mark this special occasion. Thanks to all who planned, participated, or were present in body or spirit for this beautiful tradition!
[Image ID: Two rows of smiling people standing in a chapel behind a bowl and pitcher of water on a table]

04/20/2022

Thank you for checking out Harvard Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Students! In light of the fact that our organization is made up of all student volunteers this page will not be monitored closely. If you would like to get in contact with us either with general questions or to set up a UU history tour of Boston or Harvard please send an email to hdsuums@gmail[dot]com.

09/03/2021

Welcome back everyone! As we settle in after the first week of in person learning, we are going to take this opportunity to re-introduce (or introduce for the very first time!) some of our student-run organizations here at .

First up, HDS Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Students (HUUMS). HUUMS graciously hosted a moving first Noon Service of the year on Wednesday and are here to tell you a little more about what they do and how you can get involved. Are you a part of a student group that would like to be featured on the HDS account? DM us!
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What you should know: HUUMS students and friends gather once a week, Fridays at noon. Students plan and lead our worship services and then we all have lunch together. Like UUs in general, we are interfaith and welcoming of people of any gender, sexuality, race, nationality, ability, and religion or lack thereof. As long as you treat others with kindness, you're welcome in HUUMS.

Organizational Goal: To support each other in living our Unitarian Universalist values while we are in divinity school, including friendship, financial support of other student orgs, and participation in the justice work of the greater student body.

Impact at HDS: One example of living our UU values is that we host UU history tours for visiting congregations and that work gives us funds to provide small grants other groups and students, such as HDS Holy Bees, the Material Aid and Advocacy Program, Freedom School, as well as donations to outside orgs supporting UUs of color.

Many of us are in training to become UU ministers, so we have a very praxis-oriented approach to divinity school. We are committed to concrete work that makes the world safer and more equitable for all humans in harmony with the Earth.

Want to learn more? Email [email protected] or [email protected]

08/31/2021

HUUMS is hosting the first Noon Service of the semester tomorrow! Anyone can join via bit.ly/HDSNoonService!

09/09/2020

"Despite loneliness and change: We are connected," Rev. Leslie Takahashi reminds us. "Even in the face of the inevitable losses of life: We are connected."

Across the limits of our imagination, we are connected.

03/14/2020

Very proud of UU's own Rev. Lynn Ungar! If you aren't already, consider becoming a member of the Church of the Large Fellowship. You'll get the Quest for Meaning, of which Lynn is the editor, either digitally or in print. (https://tinyurl.com/twyzoou)

“Pandemic,” a little-known poet’s poem about the coronavirus, goes viral

04/03/2019

Please join us this Friday for worship in Andover Chapel! We will hear a message from the Rev. Adam Dyer and share a meal afterwards! All are welcome.