Great Job, Joy!!

Here’s a great example of what you can do to help build a culture of peace:

Instead of presents on her birthday, Joy Sullivan (above), a new UU-UNO Youth Envoy from Tallahassee, FL proposed having her friends and family make contributions to either an environmental organization or one working on peacebuilding in Rwanda, after being so [...]

Enter the Peace Pioneer Quest at Ben & Jerry’s!

” As a company that has been supporting peace initiatives for thirty years, Ben & Jerry’s wants to recognize the outstanding work that these Peace Pioneers do. If you or someone you know is working to create positive change, [...]

Peacebuilding initiative for youth in Burundi!

A plug for a friend’s organization working on a peacebuilding project in Burundi’s Riyugi Province. Many of you play team sports and so you might relate. After a few trips to the province, Heather has begun working with one of the soccer clubs there to secure uniforms, equipment, cleats, etc for their youth teams, who [...]

FYI: Teleseminar - Monday, April 28

To those interested - a teleseminar directly related to our Spring Seminar for anyone to participate in. Please email office@uu-uno.org for phone-in instructions and access code. Thanks!
Building a Culture of Peace:
How Can UUs Lead the Way?
You are warmly invited to join in a series of informal discussions by teleconference featuring noted UU leaders and scholars, [...]

Long awaited poetry from David Williams!

Without further ado…

A Homily by Rev. Dr. Jan Carlsson-Bull

Please find below the homily given by Rev. Dr. Jan Carlsson-Bull at the worship service on Saturday, April 5, 2008.
“Peace Work”
A Homily by Rev. Dr. Jan Carlsson-Bull
UU-UNO Intergenerational Seminar
New York, NY
April 5, 2008
It’s good to be here. It’s good to be here with you as we think, speak, plan, strategize, worship, sing, sleep a few [...]

Beautiful sermon about the Spring Seminar

Almost everyone at Spring Seminar must have seen a man walking around the seminar, crouching behind seated people, perching on the sides of the stage, and popping up in other areas with a giant camera lens, documenting our Spring Seminar with gorgeous photos. Unless you go to his church in Brooklyn, what you don’t know [...]

Facebook!

The UU-UNO has its own facebook group and a couple of others have created one as well as a follow-up to the Spring Seminar. Please check them out at:
UU-UNO - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2210980722
Youth for Peace (started by Kelly Pryde and Christy Samuels): http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24248153112
If anybody else has created groups on facebook, post them so people can join!

Suggested Resources for Building a Culture of Peace

Please find below a list of suggested resources from our Spring Seminar Committee! Feel free to add any other suggestions in the comments
Books
Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World…Samantha Power, 2008

The House at Sugar Beach … Helene Cooper, September 2008 … Liberian who fled to US with [...]

Day 3 Recap!

After a beautiful service in the Tillman Chapel, everyone reconvened to listen to a few more speakers and listen to some moving poetry by David Williams and a sing-a-long by Jean Rohe. Video will be posted soon and if you would like contact information for David Williams, please email office@uu-uno.org. 
Check out pictures from the last day of [...]