Competency Evidence can listen and behave without imposing their own values and assumptions on others carries an attitude of respect when approaching people of different cultures, which entails engagement in a process of self-reflection and self-critique has the ability to move beyond their own...

Adapted from a piece originally published in Weaving the Fabric of Diversity (Boston: UUA, 1996). If I am a White person in America: I can turn on my television or watch a movie and see many images of people of my race in a wide variety of roles, including many positive and heroic ones....

Used with permission from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 390 Ashton Ave., San Francisco, CA 94112. Originally developed by Dennis Schatz (Pacific Science Center) for Family ASTRO. Adapted by Anna Hurst. Copyright 2006, Astronomy from the Ground Up, Astronomical Society of the Pacific....

Spirit of Life and Love, Bless me with a generous heart A generous heart that knows how to give... When I feel as though I do not have enough to share, When I feel unappreciated, When I believe my gifts will fall short of what is needed, expected or desired, When my enemy is in need of mercy,...

In For Praying Out Loud: Interfaith Prayers for Public Occasions (Boston: Skinner House, 2003), used with permission. SPIRIT OF ALL GIFTS AND GRACE We are not ungrateful—not all the time. We know that life is a precious gift. Though we would appear at times to squander it, remember the ways we do...

Spirit of Life, I give thanks for the opportunities to love that present themselves in the turmoil of life. When the light catches the tears in another's eyes, where hands are held and there are moments without words, let us be present then, and alive to the possibility of changing....

From Hebrew scripture (New Revised Standard Version).1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a tim...

Immanuel Kant (1724 -1804) was a German philosopher. Aristotle (384 BCE-322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher. Moral system Consequentialism: An action is right if it produces best consequence Deontology: An action is right if it follows a moral rule Virtue Ethics: An action is right if it is what a...

Books and Study Guides http://www.uuabookstore.org/The-Arc-of-the-Universe-Is-Long-P17039.aspx… Arc of the Universe is Long: Unitarian Universalists, Anti-Racism and the Journey from Calgary (Boston: Skinner House, 2009) by Rev. Leslie Takahashi Morris, Rev. James (Chip) Roush, and Leon Spencer...

Doing Ethics from the Margins Over the last two decades, a number of ethicists and theologians who are people of color have articulated a critique of the dominant culture's ethical systems, including Kant's ethics, utilitarian ethics, and virtue ethics....

Adopted and proclaimed by the United Nations on December 10, 1948. Article 1 All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood....

Reported by Donald E. Skinner, and originally published in UU World, August 2, 2010. Twenty-nine Unitarian Universalists, including eight ministers, were arrested in Phoenix, Ariz., for acts of civil disobedience protesting Arizona's strict anti-illegal immigration law. Among those arrested were...

From Chapter 2 of John Stewart Mill's Utilitarianism (London: Longmans, Green, Ryder, and Dyer, 1871)....

There are moral sources and/or authorities that inform or guide my ethical behavior. I have firm moral convictions. Each person is entitled to their view of what is right and wrong. Truth exists and our understanding of it becomes clearer over time....

Sharon Welch was raised in a small farming community in West Texas, the daughter of two social gospel ministers. She writes of her parents: They lived lives of service but with no sense of guilt, duty, or sacrifice. They acknowledged defeat, but with no sense of fallenness or original sin. They...

In A Different Voice In 1982, developmental psychologist Carol Gilligan published a groundbreaking book, In a Different Voice (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,1982)....

Let me start by saying that I am not a "protest" kind of person. My experience with numerous protests is that a lot of people assemble, shout angry slogans, maybe sing a few songs, and then go home, leaving piles of garbage in their wake....

acceptance assertiveness attention autonomy awareness balance caring caution charity citizenship cleanliness commitment compassion confidence conscientiousness consideration contentment cooperativeness courage creativity curiosity dependability determination diligence discernment empathy...

Confronting Gender Identity Discrimination 2007 Responsive Resolution Whereas the President of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations noted, in his June 21st report to the General Assembly, the work of our West Florida congregations on the issue of employment discrimination again...

This statement was adopted by the 2011 General Assembly after a four-year study and action process. Note: Paragraph numbering has been added to the original document for ease of use. 1. Aware of our interdependence, we acknowledge that eating ethically requires us to be mindful of the miracle of...