Smith vs. White: join us there!

October 18, 2025

I’ve seen a lot of unitarian-trinitarian debates, but I would say this is my favorite. The star of it, in my humble opinion, was Dr. Dustin Smith, who has blessed a number of UCA conferences with excellent, cutting-edge scholarly presentations. Look out; Dr. Smith is currently honing his arguments for his next debate, this time, face to face!

This February some of us are going to Dallas, Texas to support Dr. Smith as he squares off against Dr. James White. The topic: Does the Bible Teach the Trinity?

Will you join us, supporting Dr. Smith in person? Get your tickets here. It’s a whole debate conference; at that link you can see what the other debates are going to be.

The UCA is coming to Australia in March of 2026!

October 6, 2025

Save the dates: the Unitarian Christian Alliance is coming to Australia! Inspired by our 2024 conference in New Zealand, our Australian committee has been hard at work putting together a full, residential conference at a beautiful conference center in Stanwell Tops, New South Wales (not too far from Sydney). The conference will start at 6pm on Friday, March 27, 2026 and it will end at 3pm on Sunday, March 29.

Confirmed speakers so far include UCA Board members Mark Cain, pastor Sean Finnegan, and Dr. Dale Tuggy.

Watch this blog for a call for papers; we intend to feature some excellent presentations by Australian unitarian Christians.

As with other UCA conferences, there will also be practical workshops and plenty of time for making new friends and encouraging one another.

We hope to see you there!

CONVERGE 2025 Approaches! August 1-3 in Hiram, Ohio

June 17, 2025

This year is the second CONVERGE meeting in northeast Ohio, a celebration for biblical unitarians designed as a family festival with worship, preaching, workshops, and family activities. The first CONVERGE was six years ago in 2019, and it is where we first announced the formation of the Unitarian Christian Alliance. We are pleased to return once more.

CONVERGE is not a UCA conference. It’s organized by a committee led by Jerry Wierwille of Spirit & Truth. Because of the notable overlap in people who would attend this event and a UCA conference, we are hosting a mini-gathering on Saturday afternoon, complete with a few presentations and some networking time.

In 2019 there wasn’t a UCA yet; there wasn’t a large communication network for unitarian Christians. Nevertheless, CONVERGE was able to bring in over 300 people! It was amazing, and it certainly helped make the launch of the UCA successful. Why? The network of friendships had already begun. We launched the UCA website in January of 2020 and the momentum has continued for six years!

We invite you to come and enjoy this time of celebration and of meeting new people. We look forward to what God has in store in the coming years.

Find more information and registration details here: https://convergefest.com

Last Week of Fundraiser

June 11, 2025

On May 16th we began a one month $10,000 challenge. A generous donor had come forward to match donations made for a thirty day period. We are thrilled to announce that quite a few donors have contributed and we’ve raised $13,189.24! Thanks so much to all who have kindly taken the time to give and support the cause. Because of your generosity we were able to meet the $10k matching donation challenge.

The total funds raised this year is now at $37,158. We are on track to hit our secondary goal of $40,000 so we can say “Yes” to holding a conference in July in England and another in Australia in March. However, we have yet to reach our ultimate goal of $60,000, so that we can also hold a conference in the USA this year.

We are looking to raise $22,842 to reach the budget threshold required to put on the USA conference in Arizona. If you’d like to see this event happen in October, please consider giving. The deadline for us to make a decision on this is less than a week from today, June 16th. (Of course you can continue to give after that date, but we need to decide on the calendar for planning purposes by then.) And again, thanks to all of you who have already given.

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Help Us Reach Our Goal

May 29, 2025

Before getting to our current need, we want to thank all of you who have already generously supported the mission of the Unitarian Christian Alliance. Your donations have made it possible to amplify the biblical unitarian message, reach seekers around the world, and build a truth-seeking community centered on the one God and his Messiah.

We are currently in a doubling window, thanks to the generosity of a donor. All gifts made to the UCA between May 16 and June 16 are doubled up to $10,000. Since this offer has begun, several individuals have contributed a total of $730, leaving $9,270 to be raised by June 16th.

We’d really like to take advantage of the full amount, which means we need to raise $9,270 in the next two weeks. What do you think? Would you be willing to contribute to the cause?

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UCA Fundraiser Update

May 9, 2025

A month ago, we initiated a fundraiser to raise $60,000 for our annual operating budget, and many kind thanks to our donors. So far we’ve raised $8,684.68.

We really need your help.

To help us reach our goal, please consider donating to support the cause today!

We are not funded by a denomination or a cabal of millionaires. The UCA is a grassroots alliance of different groups and individuals who want to support each other and spread the truth about the biblical God and his Messiah. Throughout history, we’ve had brief periods when persecution slackened, resulting in a period of flourishing for biblical unitarianism. We believe we are in one of those times now. We want to help seekers find the truth about God. We want to enable people to connect to each other. We want to see institutions and collaborative projects emerge to support the next generation of BU scholars. Do you support this vision?

Our ability to host events directly depends on these funds. This means that if we don’t raise the total amount ($60k), we will not be having a USA conference this October. If you want to see that event happen, please contribute.

Many of you are currently giving at $10 per month, and this donation level was sufficient to meet our needs when we first started with only one conference per year; however, with the UCA’s expansion in 2024, we organized events in the USA, the UK, and New Zealand. We’d like to do three events again, but we simply don’t have enough resources currently. Whether you’re able to give more monthly or make a one-time donation, everything helps us to get to our goal.

Would you please consider a one-time donation or a monthly-recurring gift? Thank you most sincerely. Your contributions are greatly valued and appreciated!

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Conference Funding Drive

April 9, 2025

The UCA Board deeply appreciates the financial support from our generous contributors since 2019. We carefully steward your donations to maximize their impact.

Our conference planning has always focused on minimizing costs while maximizing benefits. Thanks to our donors, partners, and local church hosts, we’ve held successful conferences without additional fundraising.

As we prepare for upcoming conferences in the UK, Arizona, and Australia, we’re seeking your support. While attendee registrations cover venue, food, and lodging costs, we need help with travel expenses for US speakers.

We’ve created a donation form with specific thresholds for our three upcoming events:

  • First $20K for the UK UCA Conference, Summer 2025
  • Next $20K for the Australia UCA Conference, March 2026
  • Third $20K for the Arizona UCA Conference, Fall 2025

If we don’t reach our $60K goal, we won’t be able to hold a US conference this year. We ask you to prayerfully consider donating to help us reach these milestones and spread unitarian Christianity worldwide.

Thank you for your continued support in prayer, donations, and service. With God’s blessing, we can reach more seekers with the life-changing truth about the one true God and His human son, the savior of the world, Christ Jesus.

Will we see you at CONVERGE, August 1-3, 2025?

April 2, 2025

My wife Candise and I and some other UCA Board members will be there, and the UCA will have at least one session there, but this is not a UCA conference. Rather than being an educational and networking conference, this is a celebration for biblical unitarians, with worship, preaching, workshops, and family-friendly fun, held on a beautiful college campus. The first one in 2019 was amazing – see the group photo at their website. The committee, led by Spirit & Truth‘s Jerry Wierwille, is hard at work on the details. I recommend taking a photo of the QR code below with your smart phone; this will take you to their site, where you get enter your email to get the latest updates! I hope we see you there!

Registration is open for the UK International Conference 2026!

February 25, 2025

Our amazing UK and European committee have built a site for conference information and registration here. It will be held at the beautiful conference facility Denham Grove once more. There is a discounted rate for those who want to arrive earlier and/or stay later; you’ll need to talk to the hotel about that after registering. It’s not far from London, one of the greatest cities in the world!

The call for papers is here.

The workshops will be coordinated by Rosalind Frøysadal again; you can contact her through the site above – just click on “Workshops,” upper right.

You’ll want to register soon! There is an early-bird rate that ends March 31.

See you there?

Call for UCA UK International Conference Papers

February 13, 2025

The Unitarian Christian Alliance UK International Conference organisers are pleased to announce a general call for papers to be presented at our second annual conference at the Denham Grove Hotel in Uxbridge, UK, 24-27 July 2025. (Watch this blog for the opening of registration.)

The paper submission deadline is the end of the day (UK time) of Thursday, May 15, 2025.

Please do not submit multiple papers.

Submissions will be blind-reviewed by a committee of three.

We are looking for scholarly (or at least: informed, insightful, and well-argued) papers which are also accessible to an educated lay audience on topics which can advance the cause of unitarian Christianity. Previous conference presentations can be seen on YouTube and some Model Papers are referenced here.

Topics may include but are not limited to: biblical theology, systematic theology, biblical studies, textual criticism, history of theology, history of unitarian Christianity, apologetics, Christian philosophy, analytic theology.

Authors may submit even if they are neither a member of the UCA nor a unitarian Christian.

Paper submissions must conform to the Chicago Manual of Style (Notes and Bibliography style, with footnotes and bibliography). A fully written paper must be submitted; an outline or proposal is not enough.

The main text should be no longer than 6,000 words, so that the presentation is no longer than 45 minutes. Submitted papers longer than 6,000 (in the main text – so not including footnotes) will be automatically rejected.

Authors should plan on about 10 minutes of audience Q&A after their talk. Papers may be read, although authors are encouraged to present the material in an engaging way.

Conference presentations will be video-recorded and may be posted on the UCA YouTube channel, and our social media committee may also snip out interesting “sound bites” for short videos. By submitting a paper, you agree that your presentation may be filmed and used in these ways by the UCA.

Authors of accepted papers must supply a PowerPoint or Keynote or Google Slides (etc.) presentation to accompany their talk by the end of July 1, 2025. (This should be emailed to the address below.)

After removing any self-identifying features (e.g. your name, references to your other publications or other work), please email your submission to ukconference@unitarianchristianalliance.org. Our conference coordinator will ensure that the papers are suitable for blind review and then pass them on to the committee.

The committee’s decisions will be emailed to authors by the end of May 23, 2025.