Giving Tuesday
GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement, unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and their world. GivingTuesday will kick off the generosity season this year by inspiring people to give back on November 28, 2023, and throughout the year.
We can receive a matching grant up to $500. Double your impact by making a donation to UUW&R.
What does your donation fund? UUW&R is the ONLY source for our foundational UU women's spirituality curricula like Cakes for the Queen of Heaven and Rise Up and Call Her Name.
We have exclusive rights to much of the music in the Store and republication permission for more classic UU feminist works.
Our goal is to begin building infrastructure to support the bookstore and the painstaking work of restoring and re-publishing these classics and offering them at an affordable price and in new digital formats.
The UUWR bookstore is our main source of funds. When the bookstore travels to events, the expenses are borne by our volunteers. This isn't a sustainable model, so we're asking for help.
Countless hours also go into maintaining and presenting online archives and resources. UUW&R has been entrusted with herstorical documents from many of the district chapters that no longer exist. These are an essential part of the herstory of the feminist movement within UUism. It is OUR herstory.
Offering the Bookstore at UU women's retreats and other events helps us network and keep connections among our organizations alive.
UUWR could do so much more if we were well-funded. Will you consider giving this year on Giving Tuesday? Thank you!
Reconciling with the Great Mother
The Neighbourhood UU Congregation presented this service on May 14, 2023, coincidentally the day Rev. Ranck passed away.
How might your life – and world -- have been different if the Divine had been predominantly imagined as female? Participants of the small group "Cakes for the Queen of Heaven" share some of its learnings with the community through stories, song and dance.
How Cakes Came to Be
(reprint from UU Women's Federation newsletter May 2006)
By Rev. Marti Keller, Decatur, GA
As a parish minister for several congregations and a chaplain for the annual UU Womenspirit gatherings at The Mountain in Highland, NC, I can personally testify to the continued impact of Cakes for the Queen of Heaven, the groundbreaking, adult religious education curriculum. Whenever candles (and chalices) are lit in our worship, chairs drawn up in a semi-circle instead of in rows; whenever directions are called, or the female names for divinity are invoked, the influence of Cakes, originally published in 1986, is still powerful.
Written by Rev. Shirley Ranck, this ten-session seminar in feminist theology was originally a boxed set of lessons plans, a collection of readings, songs and other resources, and film strips with illustrations of ancient goddesses. The creation of the program, a specific project on women’s religious history, was one of several actions taken to implement the resolution on Women and Religion, adopted by the 1977 UUA General Assembly.
Report from GA 2023
Our first day of the Exhibit Hall was busy and exhausting! Pauline and I drove to Pittsburgh Monday, spent all day Tuesday and part of Wednesday morning setting up the booth, and then chatted with folks all afternoon. We sold out of 3 different items by Thursday, and the interest was already high.
