Links

This page has four sections. You read them all, or jump to:

• Other UU Sites. Our national (UUA) and regional (PCD) organizations, neighboring UU churches and famous members of our faith.
• Other religious web sites. All of them are recommended by one or more of our committees.
• Stanislaus County Sites. All of them are recommended by one or more of our committees also.
• Sounds like Uni-??? Unity and Universal Life, both churches that sound like us. This is a service for people who made a mistake in their search engine argument. Not everyone types perfectly. We forgive you.

Other UU Sites

Unitarian-Universalist Association
The UUA is the main organization for UU congregations in North America. Their web site is larger, richer in content and has more graphics than ours. It would be the place to start if you want to learn about our religion.

UU World
The on-line version of the UUA's award-winning monthly magazine.

Pacific Central District
The PCD is the regional organization for UU congregations in Northern California, Northern Nevada, and Hawaii.

Subscribe to PCD Currents, a weekly one-page e-newsletter from our PCD Executive, Cilla Raughley.
[Ed note: The page loads slowly if you have a dial-up connection. Be patient.]

Chalice Lighters, a PCD program to let people who can't do everything, do one thing.

Sierra and Central Valley UU Congregations
This page is slick - it has a Google Map with all of us. If you are in the Central Valley, but far from Modesto, this is the page for you.

Stockton | Fresno | Tuolumne County | Livermore
These are our UU neighbors to the north, south, east and west.
Merced is our satellite congregation.

Murray Church, in Attleboro, Massachusetts.
The UUA has a program called "Connecting Congregations", a way for churches to pair up. Murray is our sister church.

Beacon Press
This is our national publishing house, the UU voice for good in the world.

Famous UU's
A site devoted to famous Unitarians and famous Universalists from the 1800's to today. Six presidents of the United States, Clara Barton, Susan B. Anthony and P. T. Barnum, among others, were Unitarians, Universalists or UU's.

Famous Unitarians and Universalists 1936 - 1961
A site devoted to men and women who made significant contributions to life in the quarter-century 1936-1961. It has Emily Greene Balch, Henry Steele Commager, Emily Taft Douglas, Buckminster Fuller and Pete Seeger, to name a few.

Starr King School for the Ministry
The only UU seminary west of the Mississippi, and the alma mater of our minister, Grace Simons.

Unitarian-Universalist Service Committee
The UUSC has been a powerful voice for human rights and social justice in the United States and internationally since 1939. They currently sponsor programs that empower women, defend the rights of children, support the struggles of indigenous people and uphold the oppressed. You can help them.

Unitarian-Universalist Legislative Ministry California
UULM California is a statewide justice ministry that serves to empower the moral voice of Unitarian Universalist values in the public arena.

Our Whole Lives (OWL) This is a human sexuality curriculum created by a joint task force of the UUA and the UCC. Our church uses it.

Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office Building a Just International Community.

Links to religious web sites that are not Unitarian-Universalist:

Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
The OCoRT site has simple, non-judgmental descriptions of 63 different religious faiths. In their words, "We describe dozens of faith groups as accurately as we can, from Asatru to Christianity to Zoroastrianism."
(Recommended by the Adult Religious Education Committee.)

Links to web sites in Stanislaus County:

Modesto Area Partners in Science (MAPS).
For something completely different, MAPS presents fun-filled, educational and entertaining lectures at Modesto Junior College on Friday evenings every month or so during the school year. Most of the lectures are for all ages, some for 13 and up, a rare few for 16 and up.
(Recommended by the Children's Religious Education Committee.)

Modesto Peace/Life Center.
The Peace/Life center works for peace, justice, and a sustainable environment. It has promoted non-violent social change since 1971. Their Community Calendar (second link from the top) is a wonderful resource for social action, Community involvement, and cultural events in Stanislaus County.
(Recommended by the Social Action Committee.)

Stanislaus County Free Library
Several of our members work there, and about half the founding members of Friends of the Library were members of our church.
(Recommended by the Social Action and Web committees.)

Sounds like "Uni-???"

We sometimes get visitors looking for one of these churches. We have no connection to them, beyond the similarity of our names.

Unity Church of Modesto.
Unity is a liberal Christian denomination. They write, "Unity believes there are many paths to God, (good), and we are merely one of those paths". Unity has five paths to ordination. They all take at least two years.

Universal Life Church Headquarters and
Universal Life Seminary
We get people searching for the Universal Life Church because their international headquarters are in Modesto, just 8 miles south of us. The Universal Life Church will ordain anyone who asks, instantly, for free. Unitarian Universalist ministers get ordained after four years of seminary. Most ULC Ministers get ordained so they can perform a wedding for friends. Some are Pagans, who cannot be ordained through a regular seminary. There are dozens of Universal Life web sites. The two above seemed the most reasonable to our Web Master. Be warned - the seminary one is graphics-heavy, so it crawls if you have a slow connection.