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  • We did what humans frequently do: we created a ritual.
    Reflection | By Seanan R. Holland | November 8, 2023 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Ethics, Humanism, Military, Spiritual Practice, Teamwork, Work, Worship
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  • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society and in ourselves—now updated, with a new preface. Available for preorder...
    Book | By Ibram X Kendi | January 26, 2023
    Tagged as: Activism, Anti-Oppression, Ethics, Gender, Justice, Oppression, Anti-Oppression, Social Justice
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  • Until now, we have glimpsed Adam's vision through his parables and short writings. Here is the book that many have sought in his life-work- a systematic yet nuanced and entirely readable theology for a new religious liberalism.
    Book | By George Kimmich Beach | December 1, 2021
    Tagged as: Ethics
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  • A new translation of the classical Tamil masterpiece, uniquely rendering the unforgettable humanity, vitality, and wisdom of its verse in incandescent English.
    Book | By Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma, Andrew Harvey, Archana Venkatesan | October 9, 2021
    Tagged as: Ethics, Love, Power, Wisdom, Personal Inspiration
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  • Why do we so readily hand over what's priceless for a meager sum of money—or a major sum, for that matter?
    Reading | By Jill Duffield | March 5, 2021 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Character, Christianity, Ethics, Integrity, Leadership, Lent, Money, WorshipWeb, Worship
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  • “Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.” ―Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Raise your hand if you believe you’re not doing enough right now. Do you feel like...
    Reflection | By Jude Geiger | April 29, 2020 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: #COVID19, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), America, Anti-Oppression, Ethics, History, Humanism, Secular, Work, Worry
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  • "A lucid, intellectually honest, and convincing prescription for leading an authentic life of love, reason, and joy..." -John B. Hooper, President, HUUmanists...
    Book | By William R. Murry | January 4, 2020
    Tagged as: Ethics, Humanism, Mindfulness, UU Beliefs, UU Identity, UU Theology, Religious Pluralism
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  • Spirit of Life, Source of Love, you who know our struggles and failures as well as we know them ourselves, be with us as we enter into this time of reflection. Give us the courage to travel through a moral inventory of our lives, to notice the places where we have missed opportunities to live our...
    Prayer | By Lyn Cox | October 16, 2019 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Community, Conscience, Ethics, Failure, Judaism, Reconciliation, Responsibility, Rosh Hashanah, Transformation, Yom Kippur
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  • The wellspring of decency is loving this life in which people die, people suffer, there are limits, and we make mistakes. The wellspring, then, of moral action is not utopia, not a counterfactual vision, not a declaration that the world could and should be otherwise....
    Reading | By Sharon D. Welch | August 31, 2019 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Activism, Balance, Character, Commitment, Direct Experience, Ethics, Gratitude, Hope, Integrity, Justice, Purpose, Seven Principles
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  • This Message for All Ages requires its leader to feel comfortable soliciting answers from the congregation—both children and adults—and then reframe or summarize each response for all to hear. Will you play a game of “Let’s Pretend” with me? It goes like this: You’re on a television game...
    Time for All Ages | By Erika Hewitt | May 2, 2019 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Abundance, Challenge, Choice, Ethics, Integrity
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  • Cultivating human virtue, respecting the animal, defining oneself.
    By Jeffrey A. Lockwood | December 3, 2018 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Ethics, Food, Nature, Responsibility
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  • Recommended practices from UUA staff for congregations to keep teenage youth safer from harm. Covers hiring, screening, and training adults; supervision including overnight events; communication; code of ethics; participant covenants; age ranges; legal issues; and more.
    April 19, 2017
    Tagged as: Ethics, High School-Aged Youth Faith Development, Middle School-Aged Youth Faith Development, Youth/Teens, Safe Congregations
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  • One of the Leader Resources from the now out of print book Creating Safe Congregations (1997) restates our Unitarian Universalist Principles in terms of sexual ethics, and appears in every age level of Sexuality and Our Faith, the companion volume to Our Whole Lives....
    April 19, 2017
    Tagged as: Ethics, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Relationships, Seven Principles, Sexuality, Sexuality Education, Sexually Healthy Faith Communities, Safe Congregations
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  • What we are willing to say about the universe and our lives is based exclusively on our own shared experience and reason.
    By Kendyl L. R. Gibbons | February 20, 2017 | From Ideas
    Tagged as: Ethics, UU Theology
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  • Canadian Unitarian Council removes “work for justice” from its charitable purposes to comply with tax authority while adopting new vision statement.
    By Elaine McArdle | January 9, 2017 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Belief, Ethics, Governance, Purpose
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  • There are two questions that [a person] must ask [themselves]. The first is "Where am I going?" and the second is "Who will go with me?" If you ever get these questions in the wrong order, you are in trouble. source: Fire in the Belly by Sam Keen, p. 12.
    Quote | By Howard Thurman | January 3, 2017 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Compromise, Direct Experience, Discernment, Ethics, Humanism, Interdependence, Journey, Leadership, Listening, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Purpose, Secular, Unity, Vision
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  • The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present...
    Book | By Kim Nielsen | October 18, 2016 | From Beacon Press
    Tagged as: Community, Ethics, Justice
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  • An intimate look at the people ensnared by the US detention and deportation system, the largest in the world...
    Book | By Margaret Regan | October 18, 2016 | From Beacon Press
    Tagged as: Ethics, Immigration, Justice, Immigration, Social Justice
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  • Picked by Publishers Weekly as One of the Top Six Books for a Post-Election Spiritual Detox This emotionally honest and personal exploration of conflict introduces a creative and compassionate way to develop empathetic responses using the spiritual practice of the moral imagination.
    Book | By Nathan C. Walker | October 18, 2016 | From Skinner House Books
    Tagged as: Brokenness, Compassion, Compromise, Conflict, Connections, Empathy, Ethics, Forgiveness, Growth, Honesty, Humility, Integrity, Spiritual Practice, Spiritual Practice, Vulnerability
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  • A child-friendly version of the sources of our Unitarian Universalist faith that inform our understanding of right and wrong.
    Book | By Betsy Hill Williams, Jane Rzepka, Ken Sawyer, Keith Kron, Keith Kron | October 18, 2016 | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Ethics, Principles and Purposes, UU Beliefs, UU Theology
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