...Meaningful change is hard, especially as it relates to identity and power. It raises essential questions about whose voices are heard, who is asked to take risks, how we negotiate our relationships, and what our priorities are as a community. False divisions like “political correctness”...

Take-home suggestions and resources for participants in Workshop 5 of Harvest the Power, 2nd edition.

Take-home suggestions and resources for participants in Workshop 4 of Harvest the Power, 2nd edition.

The prophetic liberal church is the church where persons think and work together to interpret the signs of the times in the light of their faith. —James Luther Adams, 20th-century Unitarian theologian Share your turning-point reflections with others in your congregation. This is a great...

Take-home suggestions and resources for participants in Workshop 1 of Harvest the Power, 2nd edition.

Take-home suggestions and resources for participants in Workshop 2 of Harvest the Power, 2nd edition.

We humans are deeply, fundamentally, inescapably, relational beings. Our spirituality, our experiences of the sacred, revolves around how we relate to ourselves, to each other, to the cosmos. - Rev. Peter Morales, in Bringing Gifts, a publication of the Latino/Latina Unitarian Universalist...

The work of building a just community means individually and collectively working in right relationship with people of historically marginalized groups and holding ourselves accountable for changing the things that create injustice. — Paula Cole Jones, contemporary Unitarian Universalist educator...

. . . For all the significant identities that constitute each of us, there is a personal essence that defines who we are, a singular soul that is hidden deep within beyond the layers of identity that protect it. When we make initial contact with each other, we only see the outside of that soul at...

Whatever any of us concludes about race relations, we should start by including all of us. — Frank Wu, author of Yellow Read (or reread) your journaling notes and reflect on the voices and perspectives shared in your small group. Then, write questions, puzzlements, observations, and new insights...

The struggle for racial justice in America calls those of us who are White to make this journey. Our presence is needed. We have been absent too long. — Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker, from Soul Work: Anti-racist Theologies in Dialogue, Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley and Nancy Palmer Jones, editors (Boston:...

To consider "Whiteness" . . . is not an attack on people, whatever their skin color. Instead, [it] is an attempt to think critically about how white skin preference has operated systematically, structurally, and sometimes unconsciously as a dominant force in American—and indeed in global society...

I sometimes find myself "examining my identity" as other people examine their conscience ... I scour my memory to find as many ingredients of my identity as I can. I then assemble and arrange them. I don't deny any of them. — Amin Maalouf, contemporary Lebanese author, from In the Name of...

These UU-friendly resources can be helpful as you continue to grow in spiritual practice. Addison, Howard A. Show Me Your Way: The Complete Guide to Exploring Interfaith Spiritual Direction. Skylight Paths Publishing, 2000. Rabbi Addison, who received spiritual direction from Catholic sisters and...

In the days and weeks to come, try these tips for using social justice work as part of your spiritual regimen. Don't try to do it all. Remember the definition of ministry offered by the Protestant minister and novelist Frederick Buechner: "the place where your deep passion and the world's deep...

The following tips can help you develop spiritual awareness in the everyday. Celebrate what you're already doing. Look for something you're already doing that you can begin to think of as a spiritual practice, in spite of (or perhaps because of) its mundane quality. Add gently. Don't try to make...

As a way of continuing to explore the themes from this workshop, follow these tips for using your creativity as part of your spiritual regimen: Take time to look at the art already around you. Often we begin to take for granted the art in our lives—in our homes, in our places of work, in public...

Follow these tips for using your body as part of your spiritual regimen: Move. This means more than just exercise. Look for every opportunity to put your body into motion—to walk, dance, run, jump, stretch, reach. Move as much as your spirit and physical abilities allow. Use your senses....

Use your responses on Handout 1: Identifying a Mind Practice to engage with something that fascinates you. If you journal, take some time afterward to write about the experience and its relationship to your spirituality....

Continue to explore some of the questions brought up by the workshop, either on your own or with a friend. These questions include: How and when do I experience the sacred? What mindsets and practices help me experience the sacred? What else would help me at this point in my spiritual development?