Freshly updated is the Music for Online Worship page on Worship Web. This page highlights new guidelines for the use of pre-recorded music in your livestreamed and recorded services. Beginning in December 2021, all Unitarian Universalist congregations and worship leaders are asked to review our new WorshipWeb guidelines, developed in collaboration with the Association for UU Music Ministries (AUUMM). These new guidelines honor our relationships with the very generous musicians who provided us with music videos at the beginning of the pandemic, many free of charge. But as we continue forward, we need to honor that generosity and be mindful of the labor involved.

Please read the full guidelines on the webpage and look at the full list of hymn copyright and permissions for every hymn in the UUA hymnals. Visit the Music for Online Worship page on WorshipWeb for details and links. If you have questions please reach out to Rev. Erika Hewitt at worship@uua.org.

Winter Institute (WI) is a long held tradition of gathering over President’s Day week-end for a mid-winter retreat at Salt Fork State Park in Cambridge, Ohio. This retreat was the brainchild of a group of Summer Institute (SI) attendees who wisely determined that a year between SI gatherings is just TOO LONG to wait to gather with extended Beloved UU Community! Last year, thanks to a pandemic-related hiatus regarding in-person programming, the committee provided a virtual WI “sampler,” an evening of creating the WI community spirit on Zoom. This was a fun opportunity to connect with old and new friends and get a booster shot of WI magic to hold us over for another year. We are delighted to invite you, once again, to join us in-person for Winter Institute at Salt Fork. Join us on February 18-21, 2022. Registration is open!