UU Humanist Association

08/28/2026

Awesome!

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope blog is NASA's hub for the mission's launch updates, where all are invited for behind-the-scenes looks on Roman's road to launch and beyond. This flagship mission’s vast, deep surveys will help astronomers explore dark matter, dark energy, exoplanets, and almo...

08/28/2026

Beloveds, if you are able, I hope you will watch this Sunday as NASA launches their Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, designed to explore some of the universe’s biggest mysteries, including dark energy.

The telescope is named for lifelong and devoted Unitarian and later Unitarian Universalist, who was also NASA’s first chief astronomer, Nancy Grace Roman. A longtime member of the River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation RRUUC in Bethesda, MD, Roman was as committed to serving her community, especially around issues of poverty and food insecurity, as she was to fearlessly advancing science in her role at NASA.

Details about the launch are in the story linked in the comments below.

08/19/2026

It’s a Humanism double-header!

I’ve recently launched an entrepreneurial ministry focused on helping people map a life path after dogma.

Tomorrow evening at 6:00 pm Eastern, before the UUHA Annual Meeting, I’ll be hosting a webinar, Permission to Choose, and I’d love to have you there if this is a topic that resonates!

In the space between “I know what I don’t believe” and “I know who I am,” things sometimes feel foggy. Lonely. Like there’s no map for this part.

That’s because there isn’t one that’s perfect for you. YET. Luckily, I happen to be pretty great at helping people make a “sh*t, what happens next?” plan.

Permission to Choose is a free live masterclass on how to stop living someone else’s story and start building one that’s actually yours.

Wednesday, August 19
6pm EDT, 90 minutes live
No replays. No catch.

Sign up now (masterclass.leikalewis.com) and write this next chapter for yourself.

07/23/2026

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06/17/2026

TONIGHT: You’re invited to join UUHA Board Members Rev. Kevin Jagoe and Fish Stark for a Live Webinar at this year’s Unitarian Universalist Association’s General Assembly! Explore what today’s non-religious younger generations seek in community—empathy, connection, and honesty. Learn from the latest research on young people’s values, offering insights for nurturing communities of belonging and engagement. (Free online event.)

UPDATE: the recorded program can be viewed here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UAMX3zfK0UIv6UNSdzdTXPiTJG4QeymJ/view?usp=sharing

03/26/2026

Fish Stark, Executive Director of the American Humanist Association and UUHA board member, gave this guest sermon at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Monica last Sunday. Check it out!

Humanism is, at its core, a practice of presence. A choice to focus on the world we can see, the neighbors we can reach, the suffering we can actually reduc...

03/02/2026

What are your favorite humanist resources for kids and congregations? Grandmother Fish is a modern classic that has been popular with UUs and UU Humanists since its publication a decade ago.

Author and Unitarian Universalist Jonathan M Tweet, who joined us at GA in 2019, writes:

"I have created a number of resources that help kids engage with evolution, in particular Grandmother Fish (Macmillan 2016), the first book to teach evolution to preschoolers. I can probably get Macmillan to ship your DRE a comp copy, and I'm available for virtual visits (or in-person visits, I'm in Seattle). I've done evolution presentations to congregations and kids at various UU churches. Kids love animals & families so they love learning about our place in the family of animals. There's a page on my website with links to resources or information about resources on this topic."

See link for more info.

Activities This page points to resources you can use and describes activities that I run when I make an author appearance. Webinar on Grandmother Fish, Clades, and Clades Prehistoric Here’s a record of a webinar I led, showing educators how to use Grandmother Fish, Clades, and Clades Prehistoric i...

01/26/2026

Watch and share!

Humanism isn't the opposite of faith - it's the opposite of authoritarianism. Unitarian minister Curtis Reese, a co-founder of the American Humanist Associat...

01/08/2026

Statement on the killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE:

We grieve the killing of Renee Nicole Good, a 37 year-old mother and legal observer, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis yesterday—an act of state violence that has stolen a life and reverberates through an already-wounded community. This is not an isolated incident, but the result of policies that criminalize immigration and enforce borders through fear, surveillance, and force rather than care.

Side With Love is in solidarity with immigrant communities in Minneapolis and across the country who live under constant threat of detention, separation, and death at the hands of the state. We are in solidarity with the faithful masses of people showing up to build a world where the worth and dignity of all are held as sacred and unshakable truth. As people of faith and conscience, we are called by love to tell the truth about this violence, to accompany those most impacted, and to keep organizing toward fulfilling the promise of our communities and institutions to make safety, belonging, and freedom real for all.

We join many others in demanding accountability and an immediate end to I.C.E. operations in all our communities. We invite all people of faith and conscience to grieve together, to refuse the normalization of state violence, and to commit themselves to the long work of transforming the systems that betray our deepest moral and spiritual commitments.

12/02/2025

TONIGHT

Join the Unitarian Universalist Humanist Association (UUHA) as we host an important conversation with the American Humanist Association. During this program, we will also have some announcements and updates from the UUHA Board and a sneak peak at what is on the horizon for 2026.

https://uuha.org/blog/202512/community-conversation-tuesday-december-2

Register to receive the Zoom details for this program: https://forms.gle/qBc5GSnAA2x6V3Uv8

Levers of Change:
Humanist Policy, Politics, and Advocacy
in the Time of Christian Nationalism
Rachel Deitch, Policy and Political Director
for the Center for Freethought Equality
and the American Humanist Association

How do we grow humanist influence at every level of government within the confines of our nonprofit groups? This presentation explores how the American Humanist Association (AHA) and its affiliate, the Center for Freethought Equality (CFE), are pressing every lever available to expand humanist visibility and impact. Learn what’s happening at the federal and state levels, how we’re responding (not just reacting) to the rise of Christian nationalism, and where you can plug in to advance humanist values through advocacy and political engagement.

We also hope you'll fill out this survey about what you'd like to see the UUHA do. And if there are any updated contact information for your group - or you need help restarting the group - please let us know!

https://forms.gle/ExufbKTmBz4nsyYD6