Nico Van Ostrand (they/them) offers confidential, spiritually grounded pastoral/spiritual care sessions to help hold anything in your life that is connected to your social justice work. Topics may include climate grief, navigating the news, direct impacts of new laws, but also family and parenting concerns, diagnoses, spiritual disconnect, and more. This is a spiritual support as you live your UU values in the world.
The Unitarian Universalist Association has issued a powerful response to the recent presidential proclamation attacking trans and nonbinary youth and their families. Let us be clear: Trans people are sacred. Trans youth deserve safety, love, and affirmation—not stigma, criminalization, or hate.
This moment demands more than outrage. It calls us to deepen our solidarity, to protect one another, and to proclaim what we know in our bones: If you are trans, you were not made wrong. You were made sacred.
Join us for this powerful 2-part series exploring how Unitarian Universalist congregations in Minnesota can respond to the call to sanctuary. Together, we’ll learn how we can act in solidarity with those under threat and resist efforts to detain and deport our neighbors.
Hands Off! is a nationwide mobilization for the pro-democracy, pro-worker movement. Be part of a massive, visible rejection of the billionaire power grab, corruption, and cruelty that goes against everything UUs are trying to build
Join us this Saturday, April 5th, from Noon–2 PM at Tom Emmer's office in Chaska.
🎨 Sign-making starts at 11 AM at Lake Fellowship (bring supplies!). Carpools available.
This rally is our chance to reject policies that harm our communities. Let's show up with love, solidarity, and nonviolent action!
The first annual Tonka Pride Festival is happening June 14, 2025, from 11 AM to 10 PM at Back Channel Brewing (4787 Shoreline Drive, Spring Park, MN). This free, family-friendly LGBTQIA+ Pride event is a vibrant celebration of community, unity, art, and expression. It's designed to inspire, educate, commemorate, and uplift our diverse community.
Enjoy live music and entertainment, local vendors, food trucks, a youth and family zone, educational programs, and more.
MUUSJA has joined the Minnesotans for Equal Rights Coalition and the fight to adopt an Equal Rights Amendment in our state’s constitution! Did you know that the language of the ERA has been updated? It includes all people and offers protection against discrimination based on race, color, national origin, ancestry, disability, or sex, including pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.
Encourage state legislators to protect wild rice & clean water, oppose false climate solutions, and respect Indigenous & tribal sovereignty. Training at 10 am. Group photo at 12:45 pm. Rally in the Capitol Rotunda at 1:15 pm. Legislative meetings scheduled throughout the day. Join MUUSJA and other UUs for this Rally Day!
Event date: March 12, 2025 10:00 AM - 2:15 PM CT
Location: Minnesota State Capitol, 75 Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Saint Paul, MN 55155
Tell state legislators they need to do everything they can to protect reproductive health, freedom, and abortion access in Minnesota. Rally in the Capitol Rotunda at 1:30 pm. Legislative meetings scheduled throughout the day. Rev. Terri will be in attendance and when you register, you'll get information about how to meet up with her and other UUs for greater impact and companionship.
Event date: March 10, 2025 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM CT
Location: Minnesota State Capitol, 75 Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Saint Paul, MN 55155
Join MUUSJA, ERAMN, Minnesotans for Equal Rights, and Gender Justice on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 6:30-7:30 pm for an engaging and informative webinar on the movement to pass an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the Minnesota Constitution.