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This list includes every page or product with this tag from UUA.org, UU World magazine, or inSpirit books & gifts.

  • The inspiring story of a Black doctor deeply affected by the violence in his childhood that plagued his Brooklyn community who was determined to be a force for change and dedicated himself to addressing trauma and violence as public health issues Available for Preorder...
    Book | By Rob Gore | March 12, 2024 | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop
    Tagged as: America, Trauma, Violence
    Product
  • We pray for those with power to create peace
    Prayer | By Lara Cowtan | November 13, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Disaster or Crisis, Peace, Violence, War
    Worship element
  • love is your song and you are fully loved in turn
    Blessing | By Sam Allen | October 10, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Activism, Imagination, Inclusion, Justice, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Living Our Faith, Violence, WorshipWeb, Worship
    Worship element
  • How can I be love instead of being anger and fear?
    Reflection | By DeEtte Waleed | March 29, 2023 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Disaster or Crisis, Integrity, Love, Violence, Worship
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  • Freakonomics for the law—how applying behavioral science to the law can fundamentally change and explain misbehavior...
    Book | By Benjamin Van Rooij, Adam Fine | July 8, 2022
    Tagged as: Justice, Psychology, Science, Violence, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice
    Product
  • A searing novel, told in letter form, that explores the South African legacy of apartheid through the lens of a woman whose Black son has just murdered a white woman...
    Book | By Sindiwe Magona | May 26, 2022
    Tagged as: Anti-Oppression, Conflict, Family, Human Rights, Justice, Mothers, Oppression, Rights, Trauma, Violence, Anti-Oppression, Anti-Racism, Racial Justice
    Product
  • Slavery is made to sound as if it happened in a prehistoric age instead of only a few generations ago.
    Reading | By Clint Smith | January 27, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, America, History, Oppression, Race/Ethnicity, Violence
    Worship element
  • White supremacy illuminates the exceptional instead of blaming the system.
    Reading | By Clint Smith | January 27, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, America, Anti-Oppression, Generations, History, Race/Ethnicity, Violence, WorshipWeb, Worship
    Worship element
  • “the word- / less blues cry of Hope”
    Poetry | By Everett Hoagland | May 1, 2021 | From UU World
    Tagged as: History, Politics, Race/Ethnicity, Violence
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  • A gender-inclusive anthology of poetry and prose that addresses the physical and psychological act of being “grabbed,” or in any way assaulted.
    Book | By Richard Blanco, Caridad Moro, Nikki Moustaki, Elisa Albo, Joyce Maynard, Anita Hill | November 26, 2020 | From Beacon Press
    Tagged as: Healing, Violence
    Product
  • Despite the propaganda that treats police as heroes, actual policework is often neither clean nor heroic.
    By Howard Bryant | September 1, 2020 | From Ideas
    Tagged as: Justice, Race/Ethnicity, Violence, Racial Justice
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  • A message to white Unitarian Universalists.
    By Susan Frederick-Gray | June 4, 2020 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Justice, Nonviolence, Politics, Violence, Anti-Racism
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  • We are broken, O God. We are broken. We gather in vigil again to mourn the death of school children and school teachers. Death and violence are the reasons that draw us together in sorrow, in anger, in anxious grief and loss....
    Prayer | By Douglas Taylor | December 7, 2018 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Brokenness, Direct Experience, Disaster or Crisis, Grief, Healing, Violence
    Worship element
  • It has been a difficult week in the news, and as always, we have silent personal struggles in the midst of everything else. And so I invite you into a spirit of prayer....
    Prayer | By Lisa Bovee-Kemper | September 28, 2018 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Body, Brokenness, Healing, Violence, Vulnerability, Women
    Worship element
  • I trusted the woman at the pharmacy to be capable of hearing hard truth. Bless her wounded heart with its internalized misogyny. She just wants women to love and support each other. Thank you. Me too.
    Reflection | By Misha Sanders | September 26, 2018 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Anger, Anti-Oppression, Body, Direct Experience, Fat Liberation, Men, Mothers, Self-Care, Violence, Women
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  • The Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism–led project assembled self-care packages for people fleeing domestic violence.
    By Elaine McArdle | September 1, 2018 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Health, Violence, Women, General Assembly
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  • We come this day, called by war By the suffering we inflict and endure When minds across borders fail to reason and compromise. We come this day, called by loss, The deaths of those who serve in our name, Those whose lives end before their natural course In service to a cause greater than their own.
    Opening | By Heather K Janules | May 29, 2018 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: America, Grief, Humanism, Memorial Day, Military, Peace, Secular, Violence
    Worship element
  • As a teenager and a Unitarian Universalist, I have no choice but to speak up against the failure of our government to protect its youth from gun violence.
    By Kari Gottfried | March 13, 2018 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Activism, Culture, Politics, Violence, Youth/Teens
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  • We can decide not to let our culture be defined by toxic masculinity.
    By Emily Wright-Magoon | March 1, 2018 | From Life
    Tagged as: Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Men, Sexuality, Sexuality Education, Violence, Women, Sexually Healthy Faith Communities
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  • Being faithful doesn’t mean endless work. It also means attention to the movement of spirit that can appear as an hour of sleep, the truth of a toddler, or a donut in the middle of the day.
    Reflection | By Robin Tanner | February 28, 2018 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Children, Direct Experience, Faith, Living Our Faith, Parents, Spiritual Practice, Violence
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