Post-Imperial Futures

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Wealth in a Post-Imperial Faith

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“Wealth in a Post-Imperial Faith” learning series

Join the UUA Global Connections Office and the Leadership Institute for Growth, Healing, and Transformation at Meadville Lombard for this three-part series focusing on wealth, money, and class in North American Unitarian Universalism. We’ll take a conversational approach to various topics including classism in North American U/Uism, generational wealth & volunteerism, charitable giving from congregations, church endowments, community investment, reconciliation, and reparations. The series will include presentation, discussion, and how-tos of changing wealth practices with leaders across the field.

Coming in Fall 2025. Get notified when registration opens.

Wider Still

We are excited to share this new resource for individuals and congregations to reflect on global engagement with UU values: Wider Still.

This study guide incorporates a global lens to many of the themes and recommendations in Widening the Circle of Concern: Report of the UUA Commission on Institutional Change.

Webinar Series: Unitarian/Universalism’s Colonial Legacy: Are We an Imperial Faith?

During the fall of 2020, the International Unitarian/Universalist Joint Working Group (Unitarian Universalist Association Global Connections & Emerging Communities Office, the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists, and the UU Partner Church Council) hosted a five-part webinar series that posed the question: Are we an imperial faith? The series is now available as a free course on UU Leadership Institute.

Decolonial Religious Leadership: Unraveling and Reweaving the Garment of Destiny

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In November 2024 the Leadership Institute for Growth, Healing, and Transformation (LIGHT) at Meadville Lombard Theological School and the UUA Global Connections Office hosted this presentation that examined some of the more enduring threads of colonialism within religious leadership through the themes of individualism, expertise, and change, with movement toward reweaving frameworks for embodying leadership beyond imperial norms and supremacies.

Post-Imperial Futures: Addressing Legacy and Living Into Promise

In October 2022 the UUA Global Connections & Emerging Communities Office and Meadville Lombard Theological School hosted a conference to address the legacy of Empire and how its desire to dominate and mark out Otherness has us participate in harmful colonial enterprises.

The conference was designed for scholars, activists, ministers, and leaders. Participants were equipped with resources and practices to live into the promise of radical, post-colonial, and faithful futurities.