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  • Grief is welcome, a sacred part of the mourning.
    Reading | By Kari Kopnick | March 1, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Advent, Balance, Challenge, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Compassion, Despair, Empathy, Grief, Winter Solstice / Yule, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • When disability is understood as dependency, disability is posited in direct contrast to American ideals of independence and autonomy.
    Reading | By Kim Nielsen | February 17, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: America, Body, Democracy, Disability, History, Identity, Justice, Multiculturalism, Oppression, Secular
  • Disability is often elusive and changing.
    Reading | By Kim Nielsen | February 17, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: America, Body, Disability, Identity, Multiculturalism, Secular, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • Safety is not tied to our capacity to watch our neighbors, but rather based on our capacity to truly look out for one another.
    Reading | February 16, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Activism, Caring, Community, Fear, Solidarity, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • We can’t run from ourselves. The answer to safety is always closer rather than farther away.
    Reading | By Zach Norris | February 16, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Activism, Community, Fear, Justice, Solidarity, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • The changes that take place in winter are a kind of alchemy, an enchantment performed by ordinary creatures to survive.
    Reading | By Katherine May | February 7, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Animals, Direct Experience, Earth, Letting Go, Nature, Transformation, Winter, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • 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
  • 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
  • Witness pairs grief and rage with remembrance. Pride pairs joy with a determination to be visible.
    Reading | By Eli Clare | January 24, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Anti-Oppression, Disability, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Prophetic Words & Deeds, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • We are full, sovereign human beings.
    Reading | By Jaclyn Friedman | January 19, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Body, Choice, Direct Experience, Health, Self-Respect, Sexuality, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • When I was small and just learning how to do life in my body, I didn’t hesitate, didn’t hold back, didn’t worry how it would look, didn’t look for cues or ask for a line. My imagination ruled... I was entirely free to be, driven by the innovation my body inspired. This is the wild...
    Reading | By Rebekah Taussig | September 27, 2021 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 6th Principle (World Community), Anti-Oppression, Body, Dignity, Direct Experience, Freedom, Justice, Oppression, Wholeness
  • Shame seems to be a bestselling product pumped out of all these crushing systems.
    Reading | By Rebekah Taussig | September 27, 2021 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Anti-Oppression, Brokenness, Direct Experience, Disability, Identity, Justice, Oppression
  • I believe in your grace and protection and cannot imagine them slipping through the cracks.
    Reading | By Vanessa Titang | September 15, 2021 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Contemplation, Mystery, Presence, Searching, Transcendence, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • The 8th Principle is about actively dismantling racism.
    Reading | By Shannon Lang | August 23, 2021 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: #8thPrinciple, Anti-Oppression, Direct Experience, Humanism, Integrity, Race/Ethnicity, Unitarian Universalism, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • The following is an excerpt from the Theological Statement that opens the May 2018 Report of the UUMA Ableism Task Force. The members of that Task Force were Rev. Josh Pawelek and Rev. Barbara F. Meyers, co-chairs; Rev. Mark Belletini; Rev. Erika Hewitt; Rev. Evan Keely; and Rev. Theresa I. Soto.
    Reading | August 17, 2021 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Anti-Oppression, Body, Disability, Inclusion, Wholeness, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • Don’t argue with salvation when it arrives on your shores.
    Reading | By Alex Jensen | July 26, 2021 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Abundance, Gratitude, Salvation, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • To see how we fight still after entire lifetimes of struggle—and then to tell us to be more polite is just plain cruel.
    Reading | By Ijeoma Oluo | June 30, 2021 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: #8thPrinciple, #BlackLivesMatter, Anti-Oppression, Humanism, Race/Ethnicity, Secular, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • Conflict resolution is in fact one of the greatest things that you can accomplish in your life and in your relationship. [W]hen I view people as not bringing conflict up, I think it’s being unfaithful to the relationship. I think it’s an abdication of your role in the relationship, and you are...
    Reading | By Amanda Doyle | June 23, 2021 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Caring, Conflict, Direct Experience, Friendship, Humanism, Marriage, Relationships, Secular, Vulnerability, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • Čapek turned to the beauty of the countryside; to the beauty of flowers.
    Reading | By Teresa Schwartz, David Schwartz | June 16, 2021 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Flower Communion, Unitarianism, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • 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