Redding Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

05/07/2026

Please join us for this special event…

05/07/2026

Women's Health Specialists is hosting the Drive the Vote for Equality Tour on Friday, May 8th, 2026, 6:00 p.m. at 6:00 p.m. at the River Front Park, followed by the lighting of the Sundial Bridge. We would like to invite you to join us as a sponsor/partner of this historic event. Please reach out to my email or cell phone if you would like to talk more about how we can work together to share this with our community members and make this North State event a BIG success for equal rights!
Join us as we build collective power to secure equal rights for all! The event will included educational speakers, signing of the ERA petition, and pictures with the mighty golden Saxon that drove for women’s suffrage in 1916. Program coming soon!

Registration Here
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Sign the Petition Here
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05/07/2026

04/20/2026

04/20/2026

I am delighted to invite you to join the Mosaic Spring Gathering on Saturday May 2. This online event will celebrate the launch of Mosaic Congregations, a movement to cultivate antiracist, multicultural Unitarian Universalist communities grounded in justice, healing, and shared power.

During the time together, speakers will introduce the Mosaic framework, offer spiritual and political grounding for the work ahead, and invite congregations into a deeper practice of Beloved Community. Learn more and register at the link in the comments below.

04/20/2026

Today, the Unitarian Universalist Association calls for an end to the war in Iran in a letter to President Trump and other U.S. leaders.

The letter names this military action as a violation of our deepest commitments and warns that it threatens religious liberty. It also makes clear that this “illegal and destructive use of military force cannot be justified on the grounds of human rights,” and puts Iranian people at further risk of harm.

Grounded in a generations-long witness for religious pluralism, the UUA affirms that many people of faith oppose imperialist aims masquerading as religious commitments.

UU leaders are also inviting you to join them by adding your name to the public letter.

Read the full letter and sign on at the links in the comments.

04/20/2026

Freedom Demands We Organize: A National UU Call to Moral Action

Join Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis for a gathering to help meet this moment with courage, solidarity, and strategic action.

Tuesday, May 5th
8:00 pm ET • 7:00 pm CT • 6:00 pm MT • 5:00 pm PT • 4:00 pm AT • 2:00 pm HT

Buy Your Tickets Here: bit.ly/We-Organize

04/20/2026

04/20/2026

In March, we asked:

Who is a woman in UU history—recent or distant—who inspires you?

And you showed up with so many names, stories, and reflections. Thank you! 💛

This graphic brings together the names you shared in the comments of that post—women who have shaped Unitarian Universalism through leadership, courage, care, creativity, and a deep commitment to justice and community.

This list is not exhaustive. It reflects just a portion of the wisdom and legacy held across our tradition—and the people who continue to inspire you today.

We’re grateful for each name you offered, and for the ways these stories continue to ripple outward.

04/20/2026

It was an honor to gather in Boston last weekend with UUA staff colleagues and many dedicated Unitarian Universalists who are deeply committed to the future of this faith to close out our 200th anniversary year marking the founding of the American Unitarian Association* in 1825. We hope to share more stories and photos with you from those events in the coming weeks.

Marking this anniversary, I reflected on our early liberal Christian history and was reminded that initially, Unitarianism was an approach – well, first it was an epithet – but then it was an approach to liberal Christianity. The imaginations of early Unitarians, their dedication, and their investment in the covenants that would sustain us over time turned a collective set of values, a method of engaging scripture, an understanding of the personhood of Jesus, and the use of our own reason into a community of communities that together would elevate a liberal Christian love ethic into the very heart of the living tradition that we today freely hold together in common cause.

I think we forget sometimes the courage it must have taken our forebears to formally move away from the traditions that raised and sustained them and claim a new structure – one that would sustain and support congregations whose life saving message of worthiness, of possibility, of a shared spiritual journey would authorize and invite all people of good will who would live their lives by a set of shared values, to dream the world anew.

How blessed are we to be the inheritors of such a richly courageous religious tradition, in these days when such dreaming might otherwise feel impossible?

* The Universalist Church of America was organized in 1793. The Universalists and Unitarians consolidated their institutions to become the Unitarian Universalist Association in 1961.