Links to resources mentioned in our General Assembly story
UU World‘s coverage of General Assembly in the fall issue refers to many resources and reports available elsewhere on the Web. Here’s a handy guide to those resources. Environment Delegates adopted a Statement of Conscience calling for widespread changes in response to global warming: Threat of Global Warming/Climate Change. (Here’s the magazine’s earlier coverage of [...]
General Assembly news roundup and a few loose ends
My news summary of the 2006 General Assembly was published this morning. It provides a relatively quick overview of the business at GA and includes a bunch of things that didn’t make it into the daily reports here. Those of you who have been following this blog may have been left in suspense about the [...]
Quick update on final resolutions
Sunday afternoon’s plenary session of the General Assembly adopted a Statement of Conscience on global warming, passed three responsive resolutions, and adopted another resolution at the very end — but because I had to duck out of the plenary, I’m still scrounging around for the texts of the four additional resolutions. (More tomorrow when I [...]
Assembly adopts five of six Actions of Immediate Witness
The UUA General Assembly on Sunday adopted five of the six Actions of Immediate on this year’s agenda. They are: AIW-2: “End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining” AIW-3: “Endorse the ‘Declaration of Peace’ Campaign” AIW-4: “Pass the Stem-Cell Research Enhancement Act” AIW-5: “Stand Up for the United Nations Human Rights Council” AIW-6: “Support Immigrant Justice — [...]
General Assembly reforms the Statement of Conscience process
Delegates have just adopted changes to the UUA bylaws that significantly modify the Statement of Conscience process. The new process will require the participation of at least 25 percent of the UUA’s member congregations in introducing study/action issues into the process that generates Statements of Conscience. Opponents and supporters of the changes both observed that [...]
More local news coverage of General Assembly
Saturday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch features a story about the General Assembly: “‘Proudly liberal’ Unitarians gather here” (6.24.06). A few key passages from the story: “It’s a joyful, exuberant, spirited gathering of people of faith who are not ashamed to be called religious liberals in an era when liberal is considered by many to be a [...]
Six Actions of Immediate Witness added to agenda
Six of the ten Actions of Immediate Witness proposed by delegates were added to the agenda this morning by the Commission on Social Witness. Charlie Clements, the president of the UU Service Committee, complained in his plenary report that a resolution sponsored by the UUSC was not among them. The six resolutions delegates are considering [...]
Another global warming statement miniassembly
At the end of Saturday morning’s plenary session, UUA moderator Gini Courter announced a moderated miniassembly to continue the discussion of the global warming Statement of Conscience. The conversation will be led by UUA vice-moderator Ned Wight in Room 267 beginning at 11:00.
St. Louis NPR station interviews Sinkford
Our news blog, Unitarian Universalists in the Media, picked up a story about the General Assembly from KWMU, a National Public Radio affiliate in St. Louis. Matt Sepic interviewed UUA President William Sinkford on Wednesday. Among other things, Matt Sepic asked him why Unitarian Universalists celebrate “liberalism.” Sinkford replied: “Unfortunately, the fundamentalist religious right has [...]
First round of Actions of Immediate Witness
In theory, Statements of Conscience adopted by the General Assembly speak the will of the denomination as a whole because they’re rooted in two years of congregational engagement. (This morning moderator Gini Courter pointed out, however, that very few congregations actually took part in the process that led to the global warming Statement of Conscience [...]
