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  • Resource helps congregations engage the 2016–2020 Study/Action Issue.
    By Staff Writer | February 15, 2017 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Democracy, Social Justice at GA, Social Witness Process
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  • We will oppose any and all unjust government actions to deport, register, discriminate, or despoil.
    Feature | By Peter Morales, Tom Andrews | February 15, 2017 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Democracy, Human Rights, Immigration, Justice, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Politics, Reproductive Justice
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  • With three candidates on ballot, UUA will use instant run-off voting for first time since 1977; regional candidate forums begin February 25.
    By Christopher L. Walton | February 13, 2017 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Democracy, General Assembly, Governance, UUA Elections
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  • The weekend of the Inauguration, millions took to the streets in cities all over this nation and all over the world. It was a show of resistance to the looming threat of tyranny....
    By Marisol Caballero | January 31, 2017 | From Call and Response
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Democracy, Families & Faith Development, Social Justice
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  • This inauguration week is an unsettling one for many Unitarian Universalists. While some view the new presidency as an occasion for hope and a fresh start, many others anticipate the immediate future with anxiety....
    By Gail Forsyth-Vail | January 18, 2017 | From Call and Response
    Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Democracy, Leadership
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  • Unitarian Universalists have a long history of political activism and public witness on a wide variety of social justice issues. Are you or your congregation interested in becoming more politically active? Do you have questions on what is and isn’t allowed especially as it relates to your...
    By Rachel Collins | January 11, 2017 | From UU Voices
    Tagged as: 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Activism, Church & State, Congregational Action, Democracy, Politics, Social Justice
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  • .I want liberty and justice for all in my country. That will ask of me—and of many of you—the discipline of discomfort.
    Reflection | By Jake Morrill | January 11, 2017 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), America, Challenge, Change, Democracy, Direct Experience, Humanism, Integrity, Politics, Secular, Strength
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  • May you be safe. May you be free from all harm. As the road or skies carry you toward your fellow pilgrims, may you sense the presence of those who travel with you in spirit, whose hopes and hearts are tucked into your pockets, who name your journey’s purpose as sacred. May you encounter...
    Blessing | By Erika Hewitt | January 10, 2017 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), 6th Principle (World Community), Activism, America, Anti-Oppression, Connections, Courage, Democracy, Direct Experience, Diversity, Human Rights, Humanism, Journey, Living Our Faith, Secular
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  • Loving and Transforming Grace, Source of creation who some know as God -- Be with us now. We have endured the hard night of struggle for our nation’s soul for lo these many months, and find ourselves looking inward, to each other, to all fonts of wisdom, for guidance....
    Prayer | By Deborah Weiner | November 28, 2016 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), 6th Principle (World Community), America, Brokenness, Democracy, Despair, Secular, Unitarian Universalism, Unity
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  • (written for the Presidential Election, 2016) I walk in, as on pilgrimage. The altar cloths are red, white, and blue the ushers are the women who have been running these things who have been running everything since before I was born. I’m handed the ballot like a scroll because the questions seem...
    Poetry | By Luke Stevens-Royer | November 25, 2016 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), America, Democracy, Direct Experience, Hope, Secular, Service, Spiritual Practice
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  • November 16, 2016 "Well, the only chains we can stand / Are the chains between hand and hand Keep your eyes on the prize / Hold on" —Adapted lyrics to “Gospel Plow,”* attributed to Alice Wine Holding on does not come easy to me. As a teenager who left home and bounced around, I am talented at...
    Reflection | By Robin Tanner | November 16, 2016 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: America, Anti-Oppression, Commitment, Democracy, Despair, Hope, Relationships, Secular
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  • Welcome, you who come in need of healing, you who are confused, or have been betrayed. Welcome, with your problems and your pain. Welcome, too, your joys and your wonderings, welcome your need to hope, your longing for assurance. Instead of answers, here may you find safety for your questions.
    Opening | By Maureen Killoran | November 11, 2016 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Caring, Courage, Democracy, Despair, Disaster or Crisis, Humanism, Trauma, Unitarian Universalism
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  • May we remember we are a people of resilience. We have faced uncertainty before; we have weathered storms; we have been consumed by flames; we have risen like the phoenix from the ashes. And we will again.
    Prayer | By Sara Eileen LaWall | November 7, 2016 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: America, Democracy, Diversity, Interdependence, Resilience, Unity
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  • On this sacred day of choosing—with gratitude to those who entrusted us with this honored task, who struggled and suffered that we might have the power to choose—may we choose well. May we choose love over fear, wisdom over cleverness, courage over cowardice, life over death, kindness over...
    Prayer | By Amy Zucker Morgenstern | November 7, 2016 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Activism, America, Democracy, Discernment, Generations, Humility, Living Our Faith, Secular, Unitarian Universalism
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  • Help us to live in peace together and serve one another and to see the holy light in everyone, even when those holy lights are especially hard to see.
    Reflection | By Daniel Gregoire | November 2, 2016 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), America, Choice, Democracy, Direct Experience, Discernment, Humanism, Secular
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  • Have you ever tried to argue someone out of their racism, their climate change denial, their homophobia? It never works.
    By Peter Morales | November 1, 2016 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Democracy, Listening, Politics
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  • Spirit of Life, if you have a lesson for us, it is that all life is beautiful. We are each born into this world who we are, tall or short, with our own colour of skin, with our own sexual orientation....
    Prayer | By Brian Kiely | October 7, 2016 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 6th Principle (World Community), Acceptance, Anti-Oppression, Democracy, Gender, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Pride Sunday, Privilege, Secular, Unitarian Universalism, Wholeness
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  • Spirit of Wisdom, As we prepare to elect new citizens to lead us, in our communities, town and cities, in our counties, states, and our heart-torn nation, grant us wisdom and discernment so that we may choose those of peaceful heart, of competent mind and of servant spirit. Spirit of the Harvest,...
    Prayer | By Tess Baumberger | October 6, 2016 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), America, Community, Democracy, Discernment, Leadership, Secular, Unity, Wisdom
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  • I have a voice. It is a small voice, perhaps, but it will not be silenced. When you call for black people to be beaten, and excluded, and even removed—I will say no. When you attempt to silence Latinx voices—I will say no. When you mock the disabled and threaten the oppressed—I will say no.
    Reading | By Amy Petrie Shaw | September 29, 2016 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Activism, Anger, Anti-Oppression, Character, Commitment, Democracy, Direct Experience, Justice, Limitations, Nonviolence, Oppression, Secular
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  • Congregations have opportunities to register voters in their communities to help people participate in the democratic process.
    By Michael Hart | September 1, 2016 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Democracy, Politics, Voting Rights
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