Leslie Takahashi

Leslie Takahashi Morris, a founding member of the Thomas Jefferson District Anti-Racism Transformation Team, served as moderator for All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in Durham, NC, an intentionally multicultural anti-racist congregation. She serves as co-minister at the Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church in Walnut Creek, CA.

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LeaderLab

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Accountabilty, Agility, and Good Governance

Leslie Takahashi, Kim Hampton, Lucia Santini Field, Leon Spencer

From LeaderLab
How do we develop systems that are accountable to expanding diversity, equity and inclusion? Structures that promote accountability are essential.

Skinner House Books

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The Arc of the Universe Is Long

Leslie Takahashi, James (Chip) Roush, Leon Spencer

From Skinner House Books

A history of the UUA journey toward becoming an anti-racist, anti-oppressive, multicultural movement.

UU World

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Commission on Institutional Change invites UUs to build ‘truly hospitable’ faith

Mary Byron, Natalie Maxwell Fenimore, Cir L’Bert Jr., Elías Ortega, Leslie Takahashi

From UU World Magazine
‘If we were able to fashion a UUA that could work for the person who had been the most marginalized among us, it would work better for everyone.’...

WorshipWeb

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Consistency and Constancy

Leslie Takahashi

From WorshipWeb
May we reconnect to our life-giving, breath-freeing connection
We Are a Bridge

Leslie Takahashi

From WorshipWeb
We acknowledge our own desires and also our interconnections with one another.
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We Are Connected

Leslie Takahashi

From WorshipWeb
Across the limits of our imagination, we are connected.
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We Gather As Many Drops

Leslie Takahashi

From WorshipWeb
We gather as many drops, each winding our own path down life’s surfaces and ruts. Here we pool together as a single body, flowing together for a time.
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Prayer for When Words Fail

Leslie Takahashi

From WorshipWeb
This is a prayer for when words fail, for when they are not big enough or small enough to slip into the little cracks left in our hearts by life’s...
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To Right the Wrongs of Our Kin

Leslie Takahashi

From WorshipWeb
Spirit of Life, God of Love, hear this cry which begins with gratitude for the human ability to take action to right the wrongs of our kin....
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Listening Is an Act of the Heart

Leslie Takahashi

From WorshipWeb
One: Listening is not an act of the ear, listening is an act of the heart. Many: In these times when so much speaks: outrage, anger, disillusionment....

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