Day 26: Celebrate everywhere to make change everywhere Faith as Fuel faithimmutable nature of those truths, and of love, in an impermanent universe....

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,...

DAY 16: Practicing Radical Love...

DAY 15: Keeping the Story Alive Flat World Storyclick here to learn the etymology of "Pogrom"). They came from poor folk. It was common that even with extended family pitching in, no more than one or two young adults could be sent to America....

DAY 14: Interfaith Perspective 30 Days of Love, I grew up Roman Catholic and spent much of my high school and college years around FranciscansFrancis meeting with the Sultan, told and retold with different emphases and motivations, reminds me none-the-less to seek dialogue, even – or especially...

DAY 13: Intersectional Justice Making environmental justice.” The idea is simple and pretty obvious: low-income and marginalized communities are more likely to face negative effects of pollution and environmental degradation than high-income and privileged communities. Still, it was mind-blowing...

DAY 12: Same Place, New Times...

DAY 11: Living Out Your Story The Sanctuaries | Washington, DC, writes in his post below, the choice to intentionally hear the story of another and share our story as well empowers us as actors of social justice....

DAY 10: Sharing Stories The truly very important matter mis-toldhttp://thefeministwire.com/2013/08/a-critical-analysis-of-orange-is-the…; by the story of the white protagonist. However, when people are given the opportunity to tell their own story authentically, it can be healing and even...

DAY 9: Making the narrative public list of peace activists) and whose contribution is just as meaningful. What these people did is simple – they had the courage to speak out in ways that other people can hear. Speaking out doesn't need a big name. It doesn't need a following of thousands, what it...

DAY 8: Suppress Voter Suppression...