Happy New Year from the
UU Humanist Association!

Happy New Year, everyone! 2015 was filled with accomplishments for the UU Humanist Association and 2016 is shaping up to be equally exciting. Last year we:

• Added a dozen new Humanist groups to our directory
• Held our Humanist of the Year celebration at General Assembly for Kendyl Gibbons
• Launched the Freethinker Friendly program a new Social Justice program
• Published new issues of our Journal
• Contributed to the new book, "Humanist Voices in Unitarian Universalism" from Skinner House, due out soon
• Had booths or tables at GA, many district / regional meetings, and numerous individual congregations
• And much more

If you are not sure of the status of your membership with the UU Humanist Association, please visit the website and join or renew to help keep the association strong. We rely on members for the resources to do the things that we do.

Matching Donations

The matching donations program is on-going: all donations made before the end of February, up to a total of $3200, will be matched by a small group of generous donors. Help us meet this goal by donating today.

All the best,

Maria Greene
Executive Director

John Hooper
President

The Freethinker Friendly program is now accepting applications

The Freethinker Friendly program was designed to help congregations communicate their welcome of atheists, agnostics, humanists, and other non-theists. Many diverse congregations have been working on the requirements since the program was announced last June at General Assembly. Now these congregations may submit their application to be officially recognized as Freethinker Friendly Congregations. We have also set up a Minister-to-Minister advisory service to help answer the questions about how the benefits and goals of the program. Read more.

Journal update

Members should have received the Fall 2015 issue of the Journal in either their mailbox or their Inbox depending their choice when signing up for membership. You can read about this issue on the website and read the call for papers, on the topic of Naturalism, for the next issue.

A new climate justice initiative

At GA we launched a new social justice program we're calling S.O.A.P. (Save Our Ailing Planet). Read more about SOAP for the Holidays and the New Year on our website.

 

Secular Coalition for America has a new Executive Director

Congratulations to the Secular Coalition for America for selecting Larry Decker as their new Executive Director. UUHA is a member organization of SCA and we appreciate how they lobby on our behalf in Washington.