Marching Forward Events of 50 Years Ago Today This is the final installment in a series of reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the Selma Marches. Here are Part One, Part Two, and http://blueboat.blogs.uua.org/2015/04/03/looking-back-to-move-forward/"… Three. – ed. Sunday was the day that most...

Commit2Respond: Week 3 I heard liberation theologist and immigration rights activist, speak a few days ago. He started by saying, “I’m hoping to chat about how hopeless our work is.” I sat up straight, paying attention. I confess that these days I often pray for the doubters, for those of us...

Undoing the "Third Reconstruction" This is part three in our four part series, here are links to Part One and Part Two. - ed. Rev. Dr. William Barber Saturday morning began with Rev. Dr. William Barber's How to Build a Movement/Wake Up Call....

Our Self-Wrought Epic Disaster “Would you stop yelling about how we’re all screwed?” my supervisor politely asked. Oh. Right. Not exactly the type of thing to yell when you work in an open office like I do at the climate change, of course in light of the new UU-led coalition effort Boston...

Prairie UU Church in Parker, Colorado and UU World contributor. Read the full text of Kenny S. Wiley's post tracing the history of Unitarian Universalist rejection of racism, and the call of UU history for Unitarian Universalists to make #BlackLivesMatter now, on his blog "A Full Day",...

There Are Only Three Important Words This is part two a multi-part series of reflections the by Director of the Off… of Youth and Young Adult Ministries of the Unitarian Universalist Association on Selma after attending the www.selma50.com/">Selma 50th March and Jubilee. … can find part one...

And Thousands of Others of Every Age Unitarian Universalist Young Adult has a message for everyone: Climate Change is real and there is plenty we can do about it – especially right now by joining the Unitarian Universalist Association initiative Commit 2 Respond. First, Listen to Aly – [youtube...

Unitarian Universalist Association. www.beacon.org">Beacon Press author Dr. Cornel West explains the relationship between racial and economic injustice to David Letterman:Watch the David Letterman Show Read books by or featuring Cornel West. Michelle Alexander appears on the March 4 program of...

The 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday, Part 1 From March 5th through March 8th, I had the opportunity to travel to Birmingham, Alabama to serve as Dean of Youth and a chaplain for young adults at the Unitarian Universalist Living Legacy Project conference "Marching in the Arc of Justice: Revisiti...

Called to Keep Memory Alive Beavercreek, Ohio is where I learned to drive in a gold minivan with a dent in the side, learned to love Buffy the Vampire Slayer and how to pass chemistry tests. It's also the suburb where WalmartUnitarian Universalists (UU), we said that we wouldn’t forget. We wrote...