For my Unitarian Universalist friends and colleagues, I moved our monthly live session up (earlier) to avoid a number of conflicting events. This newsletter has details for May 12 and dates for thru August. Follow @uugrowthlab.bsky.social for UU Growth Lab updates!
12.05.2025 17:15 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This one's for my Unitarian Universalist friends and colleagues. Live session tomorrow, Tuesday, looking at practical ways to use AI as congregational leaders.
Get updates from the UU Growth Lab on BlueSky:
Follow @uugrowthlab.bsky.social
28.04.2025 20:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reading this thread, exploring included articles, and recommendations for how to respond.
19.04.2025 23:33 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Massive march outside New York Public Library in midtown Manhattan
Massive march in New York today to protect migrants and protect the planet #april19
19.04.2025 18:51 — 👍 12180 🔁 2558 💬 120 📌 93
We the people are PISSED!📍NYC / April 19
Join the People’s Movement at www.FiftyFifty.one.
#PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #50501Movement #April19 #NYC @polrev.bsky.social @meidastouch.com
19.04.2025 21:23 — 👍 26885 🔁 6189 💬 535 📌 330
Same! I'm a life long Unitarian Universalist with trans colleagues, friends, and family members.
19.04.2025 16:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For all my Unitarian Universalist friends, here are details on the next @uugrowthlab.bsky.social session on Practical AI for Congregations.
I'm running sessions for community leaders who want to amplify their impact with the help of AI, as well facilitated events exploring larger AI issues.
19.04.2025 16:54 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Concord 250th Parade & Celebration
YouTube video by Minuteman Media Network
A great time to celebrate resisting the monarchy! 🇺🇸
Live Stream Concord 250th Parade & Celebration www.youtube.com/live/yhq3i41...
19.04.2025 12:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.”
x.com/nayibbukele/...
14.04.2025 15:57 — 👍 4172 🔁 2467 💬 54 📌 637
Connect Four game with red and yellow circle pieces forming a question mark.
What’s your favorite table top game for children and adults of all ages to play?
Something for a family event, reunion, congregation or other intergenerational gathering? Connect 4 is a favorite.
Anything you play or remember playing 😊
13.04.2025 14:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And what an appearance! Nice to have a flag in the foreground waving in front of the no dictators sign.
06.04.2025 20:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Peter Bowden
Huge turnout for Hands Off Protest Boston MA!
News/Media:
Here’s 4K version of clip on YouTube. youtu.be/UtQSd5M8qLw?...
05.04.2025 18:08 — 👍 199 🔁 38 💬 2 📌 3
Boston Hands Off Protest News/Media:
Here’s 4K version of clip on YouTube. youtu.be/UtQSd5M8qLw?...
05.04.2025 18:07 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1
Hands Off Protest Boston!
April 5, 2025 Boston Common
05.04.2025 15:25 — 👍 7493 🔁 1777 💬 103 📌 177
(next to an image of Susan Crawford) (checkmark emoji) INDIVISIBLE ENDORSED
SUSAN CRAWFORD (celebration emojis)
FOR WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT!
One of 2025’s most important elections is today.
Elon Musk has spent over $20 million to stop workers’ rights champion @crawfordforwi.bsky.social from securing the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority through 2028.
It’s time to teach Musk that his money can’t buy everything.
01.04.2025 12:53 — 👍 926 🔁 301 💬 11 📌 12
Hands Off Massachusetts! Rally/March · Indivisible Mass Coalition
***RALLY AND MARCH***
**SCHEDULE:**
- 11:00 am: Meet at Parkman Bandstand
- 11:15 am: Kickoff speaker
- 11:25 am: March to City Hall Plaza
- 12:30 pm: Speakers at City Hall Plaza
**CURRENT SPEAK...
On April 5th, starting at 11am, a coalition of Massachusetts resistance groups is taking to the streets to fight back with a clear message: Hands off! 🙅
#Massachusetts is ready to defend democracy—join us!
Sign up here: www.mobilize.us/indivisible-...
#HandsOff #Indivisible #Mass50501 #MaPoli
28.03.2025 17:09 — 👍 330 🔁 149 💬 7 📌 4
Flyer for April 5 "Hands Off!" Rally and March on the Boston Common at 11am including list of co-sponsors (50501, Indivisible Mass Coalition, Swing Blue Alliance, UUMass Action) and QR code to access this signup link: https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/event/764606/
Proud to be one of the co-sponsors of the Boston Hands Off Rally and March on April 5!
Sign up to join us at 11AM on the Boston Common here: www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...
21.03.2025 16:32 — 👍 33 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 2
Since so many UU Leaders are on BlueSky and leaving other platforms, I'm making a dedicated UU Growth Lab account. Please follow at @uugrowthlab.bsky.social!
28.03.2025 14:12 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Holding mystery and wonder as a spiritual practice allowing new insights, ideas and perceptions to emerge.
27.03.2025 13:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A group of people with The Rev. Dr. Sofia Betancourt in the center pose together outdoors with on a grassy area with trees and a bright blue sky in the background. Several individuals wear bright yellow stoles that say “SIDE WITH LOVE,” indicating affiliation with the Unitarian Universalist faith. Many are also dressed warmly in coats and hats. Some people hold signs with messages such as “King Trump must Abdicate,” “Trans lives are sacred,” “RESTORE AMERICA’S SOUL,” and “IT’S TIME FOR MORAL COURAGE.”
The Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt stands at a microphone, speaking during an outdoor rally. She wears dark glasses, a clerical collar, a gold stole that reads “SIDE WITH LOVE,” and a purple coat. In front of her is a colorful textile with bright stripes draped over a table or podium holding papers. Behind her stand several people holding signs. One sign directly to her left reads “LOVE GOD, LOVE PEOPLE” with rainbow arches above and below the text. Two other signs, one to the right of the speaker and one to the left of the speaker, both read “IT’S TIME FOR MORAL COURAGE” with “SOJOURNERS” written beneath. The background features large trees, green grass, and a park-like setting. The focus is on the speaker, with blurred heads and shoulders of attendees visible in the foreground.
Grateful for UUs and UUA President Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt, who joined national faith leaders in D.C. today to urge Congress to act for the common good. In heartbreaking times, we draw strength from shared values and moral courage.
26.03.2025 19:40 — 👍 67 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 2
MASS MOBILIZATION
SATURDAY APRIL 5
WE MUST STOP TRUMP AND MUSK’S ILLEGAL BILLIONAIRE POWER GRAB
HANDS OFF!
MEDICAID • MEDICARE • SOCIAL SECURITY • OUR JOBS • OUR WALLETS • OUR BODIES • FAIR ELECTIONS • PERSONAL DATA • PUBLIC LANDS • VETERAN SERVICES • CANCER RESEARCH • NATO • CONSUMER
PROTECTIONS • CLEAN AIR • CLEAN ENERGY • SCHOOLS • LIBRARIES • FREF SPEECH • CLEAN ENERGY • LGBTQ+
RIGHTS • IMMAGRANTS • COURTS • MORE
APRIL 5: We’re uniting to say Hands Off! and fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. Join our national day of action: handsoff2025.com
16.03.2025 21:39 — 👍 1666 🔁 660 💬 28 📌 50
Hands off Boston!
Hands off Massachusetts!
Hands off America!
Join us on April 5th, 11am at the Parkman Bandstand in #Boston Common as we proclaim, "We the people means EVERYONE!"
#handsoff #standup
20.03.2025 20:22 — 👍 70 🔁 35 💬 2 📌 3
April 5th: REMOVE / REVERSE / RECLAIM
50 Protests, 50 States, 1 Movement.
Add your action by 3/28/25 to have your flyer shared on 50501 socials. Go to www.FiftyFifty.one and click “Add An Action.”
#50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #PeoplesMovement #NoKings #ImpeachTrump @polrev.bsky.social
06.03.2025 17:46 — 👍 4587 🔁 2683 💬 277 📌 395
The UU Growth Lab Newsletter
News, resources, and member updates from the UU Growth Lab, Peter Bowden's center for Unitarian Universalist growth, outreach, and ministry innovation!
This is for my Unitarian Universalist community:
All seats are now open for our Tuesday 3/25 UU Growth Lab live session on "Deepening Newcomer Engagement and Membership" March 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM EDT.
See details via the online UU Growth Lab Newsletter
www.peterbowden.live/newsletters/...
24.03.2025 20:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The UU Growth Lab
The UU Growth Lab is a Unitarian Universalist learning community, training center, UU media studio, and ministry innovation lab founded by Peter Bowden. Learn more and join the UU Growth Lab communit...
Live online UU Growth Lab sessions are made possible by our new member program.
Join us to get monthly on-demand training, handouts, summaries, and live replays to support your learning, growth, and innovation!
Details:
www.uugrowthlab.com
18.02.2025 18:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
February Innovation Session - The UU Growth Lab
Details on the UU Growth Lab February 2025 live innovation session.
Unitarian Universalist leaders, looking to grow your congregation?
Tue Feb 25 at 1:00pm Eastern is our next UU Growth Lab innovation session!
Topic: How to increase relational capacity of your congregation via GROWTH GROUPS.
Full details and RSVP at www.peterbowden.live/newsletters/...
18.02.2025 18:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
To friends from other traditions and industries, my home UU tradition is the learning community and laboratory where I much of my early testing.
Most everything I post about in this context I offer as private sessions and events.
Message me or comment to learn more.
18.02.2025 18:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A CDC watchdog and public health advocacy and health justice group.
peoplescdc.org
Vaccine Comment Template: https://peoplescdc.substack.com/p/vaccine-access-is-under-attack-act
Committed to the radical idea that all people have worth and dignity. Mother. Grandmother. Pittie dog parent. Lover of Taiko and music. Writer. Activist. Unitarian Universalist.
Pro-peace, Pro-prosperity, Pro-Accessable Healthcare and Education for ALL, Anti-Fascist.
Followed by @markhamillofficial
@mcuban @mmpadellan @heatherthomasaf
@benstiller.redhour.com @glennkirschner @joncooper-us @just-jack-1 @MorgFair @kfa-legal @dworkin
Co-Exec Director of Indivisible along with Leah.
Organizing with local Indivisible groups against this fascistic clown show of an administration and congress.
Minnesota, SoCal, & Boston bred. Honoring food, sleep, immigration justice, poetry, & neuropsychology, mostly.
Never bored* (*except by bots, unverifiable GoFundMe's, & etc.)
She/her. UU. Team Pete. NH politics. Iced coffee is always the right temperature. I stan for the Oxford comma. Dem - was an independent until 2017 💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛
The Social Action Committee (SAC) at First Parish UU Plymouth MA strives to fight for social justice on a local, state, and national level and endeavors to provide truthful information on a wide variety of relevant issues.
#unitarianuniversalist #UU
New Yorker for 47 years. Unitarian Universalist. Lover of the ideals of our constitutional republic. Lover of my wife. I feel secure about my marriage, but I am worried about the republic. No point doing the No Crypto etc. etc. They will follow us anyway.
Our mission as an enduring liberal religious community in the Unitarian Universalist tradition is to transform lives and care for the world.
Evolutionary biology meets social justice
Retired guy who owns a pickup truck. Unitarian Universalist. Helping refugee families get settled in Montgomery County, Maryland--they make us better people. Rockville is a suburb of Washington DC.
Your issues, scripts and representatives all in one place. Spend 5 minutes, make 5 calls: http://5calls.org
Harris 2024 Team • Biden 2020 Team •
Bard College (NY)• University of Copenhagen • Former writer/editor/talent scout: London Summer Jam • Member of the Opposition • #BlueWave2026 • 2x Brain Tumor Survivor • Bluesky since Nov. 2024 🦋
❌👑 NO KING TRUMP‼️Progressive Democrat Resister🦋Retired Teacher🍎
🖐️HANDS OFF HEALTHCARE♦️Social Security♦️Medicare Medicaid♦️SNAP
🛑 Stop DOGE! Vote Blue to Save Democracy‼️ Bluecrew
Musician, multi-instrumentalist and music educator based in MA.
Buy me a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/doc_holaday
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3Cxd8eNFmQvwY1U3qENJTK?si=y_GvwobnQqONdjAYnj4-dg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A0BSY0fHl6uMCTz8lLWuhUP
The Central East Region of the Unitarian Universalist Association covers 9 states: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, most of Ohio, northern Virginia, Washington DC and 1 congregation in Connecticut.
The Indivisible Massachusetts Coalition supports the efforts of Indivisible groups across the Commonwealth. Connect with us to help protect and build a stronger democracy!
https://indivisible-ma.org/
Bostonians committed to advancing social justice through community engagement and activism. Congressional districts MA-8 and MA-7.
https://linktr.ee/bindivisible
