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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Book Highlight! Raising Trans Kids: What to Expect When You Weren't Expecting This by Rebecca Minor. The essential guide for parents, families, and educators committed to creating a world where transgender and nonbinary youth can thrive.

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Raising Trans Kids

Empower, Affirm, and Support—A Lifeline for Parents, Educators, and AdvocatesRaising Trans Kids is the essential guide for parents, families, and educators committed to creating a world where…

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Book Highlight! My Name Means Fire: A Memoir by Atash Yaghmaian. An unflinching and stunning debut memoir of an Iranian girl’s coming-of-age experiencing abuse, war, and superstition—and her survival through an inner world into which she could escape.

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My Name Means Fire

An unflinching and stunning debut memoir of an Iranian girl’s coming-of-age experiencing abuse, war, and superstition—and her survival through an inner world into which she could escapeWhen she was a…

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Faithify Friday! CER Project - they are close! Can you help West Chester PA replace their HVAC system for a dependable and more efficient and environmentally friendly one? buff.ly/0ulniwG

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Now Available - The CER News Update. Find out what is happening in the region. This month - Minister's Gathering, RE Gatherings, Beyond the Binary, Small Congregation Month & more!

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CER News Update - January 2026

Find out what's happening in the Central East Region! This month - Minister's Gathering, RE Gatherings, Beyond the Binary, Small Congregation Month & more!

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Faithify Friday! Do you know what Faithify is? It is a UU Specific Crowdfunding platform. What project could your congregation Faithify today? Find out how on their site. buff.ly/C9exk02

Butterfly and bee on a purple flower. Reads We relay on each other. Faithify UU Crowdfunding.

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Book Highlight! Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change by Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, Daniel Kelly. A novel and scientific approach to creating transformative social change—and the surprising ways that each of us can help make a real difference.

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Somebody Should Do Something

A novel and scientific approach to creating transformative social change—and the surprising ways that each of us can help make a real difference.Changing the world is difficult. One reason is that…

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Faithify Friday! CER Project! Help the Unitarian Congregation of West Chester (PA) rebuild their reserves after using them for an emergency replacement of their HVAC system. buff.ly/biLN4zt

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Book Highlight! Give Me a Word: The Promise of an Ancient Practice to Guide Your Year by Christine Valters Paintner. Your word is waiting, hovering just beneath the surface. All you need is the quiet courage to listen and receive it.

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Give Me a Word

Your word is waiting, hovering just beneath the surface. All you need is the quiet courage to listen and receive it.Beginning in around the third century CE, a group of monastics known as the desert…

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Faithify Friday! Help Third Unitarian Church in Chicago Support Mayfield Community Pantry on Chicago's West Side. Hurry, ends soon! buff.ly/8GUweof

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Book Highlight! Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit by Brené Brown. Brown returns with an urgent call to reimagine the essentials of courageous leadership.

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Strong Ground

Brené Brown returns with an urgent call to reimagine the essentials of courageous leadership. In a time when uncertainty runs deep and bluster, hubris, and even cruelty are increasingly framed as…

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Faithify Friday! CER Project! Help the Unitarian Congregation of West Chester, PA rebuild their reserves after using them for an emergency replacement of their HVAC system. buff.ly/biLN4zt

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Book Highlight: Bud Funds Her Gift by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Illustrated by: Naoko Stoop. A beautiful and lushly illustrated tale celebrating gratitude, reciprocity, and finding our place in the natural world, ideal for sharing with the youngest readers.

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Bud Finds Her Gift

From the author of Braiding Sweetgrass comes a beautiful and lushly illustrated tale celebrating gratitude, reciprocity, and finding our place in the natural world, ideal for sharing with the…

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Faithify Friday! So many projects to choose from. What would you like to Faithify today? buff.ly/BBg5d4v

Love Centered, Grassroots, Relational, Faithify

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Book Highlight! In the Absence of the Ordinary: Soul Work for Times of Uncertainty–Essays on grief, change, and sacred transitions by Francis Weller. We are at a threshold. This book invites us to embody new ways of being and connecting so we can navigate troubled times together.

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In the Absence of the Ordinary

We are at a threshold. As we face uncertain futures, the familiar is falling away. This book invites us to embody new ways of being and connecting so we can navigate troubled times togetherIn his…

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Have you looked at Grounded, Resilient, and Responsible: Responding and Organizing in Authoritarian Times? This resource is designed to provide practical support, strategic guidance, and spiritual sustenance as we navigate an increasingly chaotic and urgent landscape.

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Responding and Organizing in Authoritarian Times — Side With Love

Side With Love is a public advocacy campaign that seeks to harness love's power to stop oppression. It is sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Association and all are welcome to join. Contact…

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Faithify Friday! CER Project! Help First Unitarian Universalist of Columbus, OH support legal aid for immigrants. This is an ambitious project, so please help! Time is running out! buff.ly/0UOQX8X

multicolored bubbles from a jar. Reads Imagine, what will you Faithify next?

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Have you written and presented a sermon on a disability issue or topic between May 1, 2025 and April 30, 2026? If so you are eligible to submit it for the EQUUAL Access Sermon Award. Details at their website.

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Sermon Contest Entry Information – EqUUal Access

EQUUAL ACCESS CAROLYN CARTLAND SERMON AWARD CONTEST

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Children's Book Highlight! This Is How We Talk: A Celebration of Disability and Connection, by Jessica Slice and Caroline Cupp, Illustrated by: Kayla Harren. A new jubilant, inclusive, luminously illustrated picture book that celebrates all the ways we communicate with each other.

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This Is How We Talk

From the creators of This Is How We Play is a new jubilant, inclusive, luminously illustrated picture book that celebrates all the ways we communicate with each otherWe sign, write, clap! We tap,…

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Looking for fun and fellowship in the long winter months? Join us for Winter Institute February 13-16, 2026 at Salt Fork State Park in Cambridge, OH. Registration is open.

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Winter Institute 2026

Winter Institute (WI) is a long held tradition of gathering over President’s Day week-end for a mid-winter retreat at Salt Fork State Park in Cambridge, OH

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Faithify Friday! Full Hearts, Full Tummies. Help No Child Goes Hungry feed children this holiday season - this non profit is based in the Central East Region. buff.ly/SDQBHhm

child with a plate of food. Reads Holiday hope means every child eats.

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

If you identify as Black, Indigenous, or a person of color (BIPOC), you’re warmly invited to the UUA Central East Region’s monthly BIPOC gathering—a virtual space for connection, reflection, and spiritual grounding. Wednesday, November 19, 6:30 pm ET. Registration is required.

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CER BIPOC Monthly Gathering

If you identify as Black, Indigenous, or a person of color (BIPOC), you’re warmly invited to the UUA Central East Region’s monthly BIPOC gathering

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Book Highlight! Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church by Eliza Griswold. Americans have been leaving their churches. Some drift away. Some stay home. And some have been searching for—and finding—more authentic ways to find and follow Jesus.

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Circle of Hope

A 2024 National Book Award for Non-fiction FinalistA 2024 Publisher's Weekly best Religion book of the year.A New York Times Notable book of 2024.A Pulitzer Prize winner’s intimate portrait of a…

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

If your congregation needs some help thinking about safety in these times, you may want to review the Threats from Without, Care from Within Safety class on UU Institute. This class is free.

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Threats from Without, Care from Within

This robust training helps you anticipate and plan responses to violent threats, vandalism, doxxing, and other forms of intimidation and harassment.

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Faithify Friday! CER Project! Help First UU Columbus, OH, support legal aid for immigrants. This is an ambitious project, so please help! buff.ly/cVqA6CI

Image of a plant, a rainbow over a hand and a book with pages making a heart. Reads Building a world with UU Values, Faithify.

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Join the Green Sanctuary Community Gathering as we hear from Boise UU Fellowship talk about their plan, Imaging a Carbon Neutral World. November 19 at 7 pm ET.

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Book Highlight! Raising Awe-Seekers: How the Science of Wonder Helps Our Kids Thrive, Deborah Farmer Kris. What if helping boost kids’ mental and emotional well-being, strengthen their social ties, & support their curiosity & internal motivation were as simple as rediscovering awe?

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Raising Awe-Seekers

A truly inspiring book for parents and caregivers, and for the kid inside us all.What if helping boost kids’ mental and emotional well-being, strengthen their social ties, and support their curiosity…

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Join leaders from across the country gather to hear an esteemed guest speak on an emergent issue, hopeful development, or pressing concern in Unitarian Universalism. This month: members of the Normalizing Change Cohort, Tuesday, November 18 at 7:30 pm ET.

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Congregational Leaders Conversation

Congregational Leaders Conversations are an opportunity to dig into an emergent issue, hopeful development, or pressing concern in Unitarian Universalism

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Faithify Friday! Full Hearts, Full Tummies. Help No Child Goes Hungry feed children this holiday season - this non profit is based in the Central East Region. buff.ly/UMEvt8H

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Join us for The Gathering, Monday, November 10 at 8 pm ET. This month we are joined by UU the Vote to talk about Democracy.

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Is your congregation considering change or experimenting with change? This program is for you. Normalizing Change in Congregational/Communal Life, November 15, 2-6 pm ET.

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Normalizing Change in Congregational/Communal Life

Change is a constant: in everyday life and in the life of congregations.

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

People Power: UUs in Georgia are Energized for Utility Justice from UU World. A growing number of Georgia UUs, passionate about promoting green energy and bringing down soaring utility bills, are making their voices heard across their state.

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People Power: UUs in Georgia are Energized for Utility Justice

A growing number of Georgia UUs, passionate about promoting green energy and bringing down soaring utility bills, are making their voices heard across their state.

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Helping Hands, Full Plates: With Looming Halt to SNAP Benefits, UUs Prep Emergency Food Support from UU World. With SNAP funding set to lapse November 1 because of stalled U.S. government shutdown negotiations, UUs are helping their neighbors. Learn how to get involved.

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Helping Hands, Full Plates: With Looming Halt to SNAP Benefits, UUs Prep Emergency Food Support

With SNAP funding set to lapse November 1 because of stalled U.S. government shutdown negotiations, UUs are helping their neighbors. Learn how to get involved.

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Book Highlight! Learning Environment: Inspirational Actions, Approaches, and Stories from the Science Classroom by Jared Fox. An award-winning environmental science teacher’s actionable roadmap for educators interested in making the world a classroom, even in the city.

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Learning Environment

An award-winning environmental science teacher’s actionable roadmap for educators interested in making the world a classroom, even in the city.Join award-winning New York City educator Dr. Jared Fox…

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Do you know about the UUA's Virtual Hymnal Sing out Love? You are invited to learn more at one of two info sessions on November 9 at 7 pm ET or November 11 at 7 pm. Registration is open. buff.ly/Fn5R6yk

Sing Out Love. uua.org/singoutlove
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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Faithify Friday, CER Project! Help First UU Columbus help the Fund for Immigration Legal Assistance (FILA) provide residents of Central Ohio with assistance in paying immigration-related legal and/or medical expenses. buff.ly/8K4CJXO

Faithify. Crowdfunding for UU projects. Congregations, organization and people living UU values in the world. Explore open campaigns or start your own at www.faithify.org

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Now available, Opportunities for Connection for November. Find out what's happening in the Central East Region! This month - UU Institute, Winter Institute, Leadership Learning Opportunities, Wave Cohorts & more!

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Opportunities for Connection - November 2025

Find out what's happening in the Central East Region! This month - UU Institute, Winter Institute, Leadership Learning Opportunities, Wave Cohorts & more!

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Central East Region of the UUA @ceruua.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

What is your congregation doing to help members and neighbors experiencing food insecurity in this time?

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