Join VUU Hosts Rev Donte Hillard, Rev Dr. Michael Tino, and Rev DC Fortune for this year end discussion of 2025 for themselves and the world. How was 2025 for you, and what are you looking forward to in 2026? We are looking forward to more exciting topics on The VUU! See you on Jan…

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Join VUU Hosts Rev Donte Hillard, and Aisha Hauser MSW CRE-ML who discuss joy! How do themes of embodiment, sexual and non sexual touch, intimacy, and healthy sexuality transform the world and allow us to tap into joy? What harmful theologies or practices shame us out of our birthright of joy? 

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Join VUU Hosts Rev Donte Hillard, and Aisha Hauser MSW CRE-ML who discuss Worship and UU Liturgy. What does worship mean to you? How does a faith tradition with shared values of pluralism and love practice that when we are gathered together virtually, in person in a brick and mortal congregation or across time? What…

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Join VUU Hosts , Rev Donte Hillard, Rev DC Fortune, and Rev Dr. Michael Tino for a discussion on what they are reading for brain nutrition, uplift of the soul and for joy or pleasure. Discover the power of story, and the freedom of telling new tales. The topics ranged from abolition and Conjure, to…

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Join VUU Hosts, Rev Dr. Michael Tino, Rev DC Fortune, and Aisha Hauser MSW CRE-ML for their roundup on elections around the country including Maine, New York and Pennsylvania. Do these elections signal a change in United States domestic policy that centers people as the CLF continues to do with their abolition CSAI?  Want to…

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Join VUU Hosts Rev Donte Hillard, Rev DC Fortune, and Aisha Hauser MSW CRE-ML as they speak about organizing as individuals against fascism around the globe, but also how grief can manifest with changing realities. How are religious institutions and faith leaders answering the call of this moment? We, as communities of people with love at…

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VUU Hosts, Aisha Hauser-MSW, CRE-ML, Rev. Donte Hillard, Rev. DC Fortune are joined by the authors of Imani Rituals, Anthony Y. Stringer, Ayanna Kafi, and Duncan E. Teague to discuss the ways Unitarian Universalist congregations must be culturally pluralistic to become a religious home to all who cross their threshold. Their book, Imani Rituals, centers…

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Join VUU Hosts Rev Donte Hillard, Rev DC Fortune, Aisha Hauser MSW CRE-ML and Rev Dr. Michael Tino for a wide ranging discussion centering love in public. They link abolition, the US political system, and the role of religious institutions. Discover how living out Unitarian Universalist values through life-giving worship propels skillful action to create…

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VUU Hosts Rev Donte Hillard, Rev DC Fortune, and Rev Dr. Michael Tino discuss the Church of the Larger Fellowship’s Congregational Study Action Issue (CSAI) on abolition, and upcoming classes. Start the conversation on the theologies that undergird the United States’ political and social systems which result in a carceral nextwork based on punishment and…

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VUU Hosts Aisha Hauser MSW-CRE-ML, Rev. DC Fortune, Rev Dr. Michael Tino, and Rev Donte Hillard are joined by Rev. Dr. Lucas Herbert to discuss his new book which covers the need and ask for impassioned preaching and embodied worship within Unitarian Universalism in these times.

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