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  • We’re thrilled to share a new Welcoming Religious Education Study Guide inspired by Imara Jones’s 2025 Ware Lecture at General Assembly: “Love at the Center: Defending Trans Lives and Democracy.”
    Study Guide | November 13, 2025 | From Uplift
    Tagged as: #LGBTQ, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Anti-Oppression, Anti-Oppression, Gender Justice, LGBTQ Welcome & Equality, Transphobia, Unitarian Universalism
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  • “[Democracy] is not merely majority rule based on the fact that the majority has the physical force to prevail…"
    Quote | By W.E.B. Du Bois | February 20, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), America, Covenant, Democracy, Governance, Interdependence, Leadership, Politics, Rights, Worship
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  • May we be active participants in the liberatory potential of democracy.
    Reflection | By Shaya French | June 21, 2023 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Choice, Conflict, Conscience, Democracy, Unitarian Universalism, Worship, Young Adults
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  • we protest what others cherish
    Poetry | By Lucas Hergert | March 3, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Activism, Conflict, Democracy, Justice
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  • UUA President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray reflects on the ways that organizing around elections is grounded in Unitarian Universalist theology.
    November 9, 2022 | From Press Releases
    Tagged as: #UUTheVote, 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Social Justice
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  • As the election is tomorrow, we offer this Litany for the day: Fort those who educate others, and register new voters, We thank you for preserving our democracy. For those who fill out absentee forms and completed mail-in ballots, We thank you for preserving our democracy. For those who provide...
    By Beth Casebolt | November 7, 2022 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Voting Rights
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  • The UUA celebrates the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court because her experience and credentials give us hope for the future of this country.
    April 6, 2022 | From Press Releases
    Tagged as: 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Social Justice
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  • Let us grieve for our own pain, as oppressions / come between us, as sharp / as broken glass.
    Poetry | By Frances Koziar | March 2, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Activism, Anti-Oppression, Courage, Integrity, Worship
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  • On the one year anniversary of the failed attempted coup on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, the UUA issues a statement outlining the continued and growing threats to our democracy and the need for individuals to take action.
    January 5, 2022 | From Press Releases
    Tagged as: 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Social Justice
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  • The UUA offers support and solidarity to the powerful organizing happening in Georgia, especially from faith communities and Black-led organizations. We encourage UU across the country to organize to defeat voter suppression in their own states.
    March 29, 2021 | From Press Releases
    Tagged as: #UUTheVote, 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Justice, Voting Rights
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  • UUA President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray offers a prayer on the historic occasion of the inauguration of the 46th president of the United States.
    By Susan Frederick-Gray | January 19, 2021 | From Press Releases
    Tagged as: #UUTheVote, 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Democracy, Social Justice
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  • 3 travelers search for a new home where they will feel welcome and included. They encounter a single leader, a group of leaders, and circle of equals. The communities mirror an autocracy, a republic, and non-hierarchical community.
    Story | By Renee Ruchotzke | November 22, 2020 (reviewed November 2024) | From Faith Curricula Library
    Tagged as: 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Covenant, Covenant, Democracy, Governance, Inclusion, July 4th, Justice Sunday, Living Our Faith, Pluralism, Solidarity, UU Theology, Wisdom
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  • The soul of America has yet to be born.
    Reading | By Peggy Clarke | November 16, 2020 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), America, Democracy, Generations, History, Humanism, Indigenous Peoples Day, July 4th, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Secular
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  • I return to the Spiritual Leadership practice of doing my inner work. It may be the hardest practice of all. I want so many things to be different than they are — including myself. Yet the only path forward is to be right here in this real place, right now at this real time.
    By Meck Groot | November 4, 2020 | From Doing Our Inner Work
    Tagged as: 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Spiritual Practice, Voting Rights
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  • Guidance and counsel for Unitarian Universalists on what's needed to defend our democracy in this historic election season. We have been preparing to meet this moment with clarity and skill for months, years, and generations.
    November 2, 2020 | From Press Releases
    Tagged as: #UUTheVote, 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Courage, Principles and Purposes, Social Justice
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  • Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do.
    Quote | By Timothy Snyder | September 27, 2020 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Activism, America, Democracy, Justice, Meaning, Politics, Secular, Worship
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  • How do we talk about the mission and values that span the berth of the Unitarian Universalist movement? Use this guide within your community to answer this very question.
    By Commission On Institutional Change | August 20, 2020
    Tagged as: 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Governance, UUA Committees, UUA Governance & Management
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  • “Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.” ―Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Raise your hand if you believe you’re not doing enough right now. Do you feel like...
    Reflection | By Jude Geiger | April 29, 2020 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: #COVID19, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), America, Anti-Oppression, Ethics, History, Humanism, Secular, Work, Worry
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  • As we light this chalice [this evening], may it serve to give us clarity of purpose and illumine our way as we set about doing the work of this congregation, in commitment, in cooperation, and in love.
    Chalice Lighting | By Viola Abbitt | January 7, 2020 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Business Meetings, Commitment, Community, Governance, Humanism, Leadership, Love, Purpose, Secular, Teamwork, Unitarian Universalism, Work
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  • Last week, I stood in front of the ICE offices in Hartford for several hours -- ironically directly across the street from the lesbian law firm that my partner and I paid a lot of money to protect our queer family from the Trump administration (they helped us with the second parent adoption of our...
    By Cathy Rion Starr | October 30, 2019 | From Uplift
    Tagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, #FamiliesBelongTogether, #LGBTQ, #LoveResists, #SideWithLove, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Activism, Freedom, Human Rights, Immigration, LGBTQ Welcome & Equality, Solidarity in Immigration Justice, Welcome & Inclusion for LGBTQ
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