Standing on the Side of Love for more ideas on how you can use artistic expression to reach out.

Day 24: Employ the Sacred Pause lectio divina practice in the morning, when I take the time to focus on one task at a time, my life feels better. That doesn’t mean I always do it. There are still days when I leave too late and blame it on the traffic (the Bay Area equivalent to blaming it on the…

Day 23: Do More than Stand on the Side of Love In Faith, Rev. Peter Morales and Rev. Geoffrey Black UCCNational Standing on the Side of Love Month, UCC, voting rights…

DAY 22: Stand with Those Who Face Religious Discrimination his Ware Lecture at last year’s General Assembly, Eboo Patel spoke of Unitarian Universalists as the natural denomination to lead interfaith efforts in our country….

DAY 21: Radically Reintegrate the Formerly Incarcerated New York Reentry Education Network (NYREN), a cross-sector network of 30 organizations devoted to making education central for people and communities who are most deeply impacted by the criminal justice system, based on the conviction that…

Standing on the Side of Love has linked to some. http://standingonthesideoflove.org/2014_30days_calendar/Thursday-Februa… them out and consider how your youth group can do their part to welcoming all.

DAY 19: Practice Radical Love for our Troops Iraq Veterans Against the War. It was good for me to read Rev. Cynthia Kane’s 2009 article about how finding a UU congregation when she was in the army was life-saving. It is good for me to keep my ears open to the stories I have yet to read and hear….

The story this post tells was submitted as part of http://standingonthesideoflove.org/2014_30days_calendar/Tuesday-Februar… 18 of the Thirty Days of Love. It is so powerful and disturbing it stands on its own.–Ed. By Leila Pine, Volunteer Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status, a…

DAY 18: For Immigration Reform UUAhttp://standingonthesideoflove.org/2014_30days_calendar/Tuesday-Februar… Days of Love Campaign, immigration, has become a divisive flash point in our society, pitting person against person on the basis of our origin. But I ask that you, the reader, consider for a…

DAY 17: Put Love into Practice First Parish in Milton to talk about what it means to do good in the world. This great group of teens is raising money for an organization jn the Boston area called Bridge Over Troubled Waters, which provides life-changing services for homeless and at-risk youth,…