6th Principle (World Community)
The sixth of Our Unitarian Universalist Principles calls us to affirm and promote "the goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all."
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By Susan Dana LawrenceBased on a true story that happened at the 1976 Special Olympics in Seattle, WA ...
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Unitarian Universalists affirm and promote seven bold and compassionate ethical principles.
Braver/Wiser: A Weekly Message of Courage and Compassion
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By Lindasusan UlrichIf justice is to be realized, our voices must speak loudly—even boisterously—of love.
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By Rayla D. MattsonPeople of color—and other marginalized people—can’t just want things to be different. It has to be everyone wanting things to be different for everyone.
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By James GertmenianLove without justice is not love. Compassion without deeds is not compassion. Faith without action is not faith. And religion without politics is not religion. In my view, people of faith are not entitled to avoid politics for the sake of a short-lived spiritual high.
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By Yuri YamamotoEach of us at the wedding had unique stories about their life, but most knew how it felt to be an Asian American in this country. That was enough for me.
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By Teresa Honey YoungbloodPray, if you pray. Send love and money, too. We will be rolled and covered, but we will rise and carry others with us. Watch for the opportunities to rise and carry. Watch for the holy moments where some people see God.
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By Sean Parker DennisonWe are sometimes selfish, sometimes complicit with systems that do harm, sometimes the cause of pain and injustice. Until we can hold compassion for ourselves and others—until we can be forgiving when we fall short—our love is incomplete.
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By Teresa Honey YoungbloodIt took me 37 years to recognize that I had been cloistered off from the beauty, the richness, and the heartbreaking complexity of other people’s experiences.
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By Robin Tanner"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." —Rumi ...
Call and Response: Journeys in UU Lifespan Faith Development
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By Sarah ConoverAn old activist friend of mine, Fran Peavey, used to travel the world’s benches in the 1970s and 80s with a simple sign that read, "...
International Programs of the UUA: Unitarians, Universalists, and Unitarian Universalists (U/U) around the world are connected through a story of bold, compassionate faith that we’ve been creating together for centuries. Struggling for human rights alongside those that demand it, influencing governmental policy in the name of justice, passionately promoting a message of interfaith peace and solidarity, and building faithful worshipping communities—each of us has a part, and a stake, in the story we share.
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The International Council of Unitarians and Universalists (ICUU) distributes a new Chalice Lighting Reading each month. Congregations are invited to use it during worship services, and to introduce it as a Global Chalice Lighting.
Social Justice Statements
Tapestry of Faith: Curricula and Resources for Lifespan Faith Development
Miracles
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From Christian scripture, John 6:1-19, New Revised Standard Version (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1990). A large crowd kept...
Moral Tales
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Compiled from a variety of West African and South African folk tales. Once upon a time two cousins lived side by side in a village. They...
Wisdom from the Hebrew Scriptures
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Joshua 1: 1-3, Joshua 2:1-7,15-18, 21, Joshua 6: 1-25 (New Revised Standard Version) ... The Lord spoke to Joshua son of Nun... saying...
Chalice Children
Signs of Our Faith
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One day in Alabama, in 1968, as farmers worked in their fields, a small airplane swooped into view. The farmers looked up wonderingly as...
Creating Home
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One of the reasons Muhammad was able to get people to listen to him was because, from a young age, he had proven himself to be wise and...
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Janeen K. Grohsmeyer, adapted from the story, “Circles of Light: The Flaming Chalice." In the dark nights and the darker days of World War...
What Moves Us
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James Luther Adams, from "The Evolution of My Social Concern." Used with permission, Herbert F. Vetter, Harvard Square Library. The text is...
Building the World We Dream About for Young Adults
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By Jane GreerFrom "UU Convicted of Littering While Supplying Humanitarian Aid" , UU World, June 15, 2009. Used with permission. The subject of the story...
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By India McKnight"Honey, those girls were being chased for at least half a mile once school got out," Ms. Myra recalled. I shook my head knowingly. We had...
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By Elandria WilliamsThe Highlander Research and Education Center is an 80-year-old popular education center in the mountains of East Tennessee, which serves as...
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By Ellen Zemlin, a White Unitarian Universalist. For me, there's never really been a question about whether my Unitarian Universalism and...
What We Choose
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In September 1965, Filipino grape workers in Delano, California, went on strike for more pay and better working conditions. A week later,...
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Background Information Since 1993, the Unitarian Universalist Partner Church Council ( UUPCC ) has encouraged and supported partnerships...
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In 1977, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States. Milk grew up in New York, quiet about his homosexuality. He studied mathematics and graduated from New York State College for Teachers in...
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By Polly PetersonOriginally published in Stirring the Nation's Heart: Eighteen Stories of Prophetic Unitarians and Universalists of the Nineteenth Century (...
The New UU
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By Polly PetersonThis is the story of Theodore Parker, a Unitarian minister who was determined to do whatever he could to end slavery in the United States...
Spirit in Practice
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Young prince Siddhartha had been raised in complete luxury. His life had been so arranged that he knew no suffering, no lack, no want. So...
Heeding the Call
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By Sarah FosterSarah Foster is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist who wanted to make the world a better place while doing something that she loved. What...
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Based on information from People Building Peace, Peace News, My Hero, and Sara Cameron's website. Adults are usually regarded as the...
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