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UUs in the News:
​Washington Post advocates joining us

Joining a Unitarian Universalist congregation is one of five things Perry Bacon Jr. of The Washington Post advises doing, instead of doomscrolling the news. 

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UUs In the News
Here we show times when our members were featured in media coverage.
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Local ABC7 reports on panel discussion

"SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - At a Panel Discussion Thursday night, Zander Moricz took to the stage and spoke again in front of a crowd of hundreds of people.

The discussion was put on by Bowser Diversity Initiative and held at the Unitarian Universalists of Sarasota. It was called 'Power and the People: Social Justice in America Since the Civil Rights Movement.'”

So begins the report by ABC7 of the January 23, 2025, event. See the report and video clips at our local ABC7's website...


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​Washington Post advocates joining us
Joining a Unitarian Universalist congregation is one of five things Perry Bacon Jr. of The Washington Post advises doing, instead of doomscrolling the news. His opinion piece is also available on his November 27 X account. An excerpt follows:

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​Opinion:  Don’t doomscroll about Trump. Do these five things instead.
Elections are important, but they’re not the only way to advance progressive policies.
(Washington Post staff illustration; iStock)
By Perry Bacon Jr.
November 27, 2024 at 7:45 a.m. EST

You might be angry and fearful of another four years of Donald Trump being president. That’s how I feel. I want to encourage you to channel some of that frustration into these five actions:

​2. Join a Unitarian Universalist congregation

If you’re part of a Christian, Muslim, Jewish or other religious group that meets regularly and engages politically, skip this. But there is a growing number of Americans, particularly on the left, who are religiously unaffiliated and not regularly congregating with people who share their values.
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They should consider the Unitarian Universalists. I recently started regularly attending a UU service in Louisville. It’s much more political than the Christian churches I have previously been a member of. That turned me off at first. Since politics is essentially my job, I try (usually unsuccessfully) to avoid discussions of elections and government in my off-hours. And I was leery of a church whose openly liberal values would clearly turn off Trump supporters and therefore ensure a congregation that didn’t include many Republicans.

But before the election, church members engaged in politics in a practical way, encouraging congregants to go canvassing in opposition to a proposed constitutional amendment here to create a school vouchers program. (It failed.) So at least on Sundays, I was in a community of people working on a concrete, discrete local issue, as opposed to nervously speculating about Vice President Kamala Harris’s poll numbers.

Post-election, I was relieved to be in a space where we openly discussed shared values and ideals we felt had been rejected by America in electing Trump, such as support of immigrants and LGBTQ+ people.

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September 26:
Suzie Brucklacher interviewed by SNN about caregiver issues

See the video and the transcript ...
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September 22: Roy Ingham featured in Climate Strike coverage

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Roy Ingham was featured in Carrie Seidman's column about the Climate Strike in the September 22, 2019, Herald-Tribune. See more pictures below. 
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Read Seidman's column... 
​Read Seidman's report in the September 21 issue

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Heraldtribune.com included this picture of Roy Ingham, with the following caption: Roy Ingraham [sic], a 94-year-old World War II veteran, represented the Greatest Generation at the local Youth Global Climate Strike rally.
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July 16:
​Jody McBrien's new book featured

Jody McBrien's new book about refugee resettlement efforts is featured in the July 16 Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
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