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Can we strive to have the grace to back away when our presence doesn’t feel like safety?Reflection | By Misha Sanders | November 13, 2019 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Anti-Oppression, Direct Experience, Discernment, Humanism, Privilege, Race/Ethnicity, Secular, Unitarian UniversalismPage/Article -
As the fight over reproductive rights continues, not enough is being said about racial disparities in health care.By Kim Hampton | November 1, 2019 | From IdeasTagged as: Health, Parents, Race/Ethnicity, Reproductive JusticePage/Article -
What in Unitarian Universalism’s central theology requires us to work toward building multicultural, antiracist Beloved Community?Feature | By Nancy Palmer Jones, Karin Lin | November 1, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Multiculturalism, Race/EthnicityPage/Article -
On August 25, 1619, the ship the White Lion arrived at Point Comfort, now known as Fort Monroe National Monument in Hampton, Virginia. The ship contained enslaved Africans. This is the first recorded arrival of Africans in America....Affirmation | By Kristen L. Harper | October 10, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), America, Black History / Whitney Young / James Reeb, Direct Experience, History, Juneteenth, Oppression, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Race/Ethnicity, ResilienceWorship element -
Commission on Institutional Change is collecting testimony through end of September; 60 percent of survey respondents see antiracism work as most important to future of Unitarian Universalism.By Elaine McArdle | September 25, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Anti-Racism, Multiculturalism, Multiculturalism, Race/EthnicityPage/Article -
The Commission invited UUs into conversation and discernment as they shared perspectives on institutional and cultural barriers to diversity, equity, and inclusion.By Staff Writer | September 1, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Change, Diversity, General Assembly, Multiculturalism, Race/EthnicityPage/Article -
A journalist on the front lines in a battle for criminal justice reform in Spokane, Washington.By Sandra Williams | September 1, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Criminal Justice, Justice, Race/EthnicityPage/Article -
It is easy to hold up a light and declare that everyone is welcome. It is harder to build a place where everyone is truly at home.By Susan Frederick-Gray | September 1, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Commitment, Community, Covenant, Race/EthnicityPage/Article -
Empire has failed Puerto Rico. It’s time for us to demand better.By Julio Noboa Polanco | September 1, 2019 | From IdeasTagged as: Democracy, Justice, Politics, Race/EthnicityPage/Article -
A common "issue" in anti-racism work is the use of the term culture of white supremacy or white supremacy culture, which many people view as charged, controversial, or even deeply offensive. Sometimes there are even challenges/dismissals from people in positions of power/authority about it....Reading | By Carolina Krawarik-Graham | August 15, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Anti-Oppression, Direct Experience, Humanism, Identity, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Race/Ethnicity, SecularWorship element -
Non-Indigenous people who seek to reconnect with the earth must be wary of the dangerous problem of spiritual theft. On the one hand, we have much to learn from Native peoples about this land and about what it means to honor our relationship to the land. We must take our lead from those who have...Reading | By Myke Johnson | July 25, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Earth, Earth-Centered, Indigenous American, Race/Ethnicity, Responsibility, Seven Principles, Spiritual PracticeWorship element -
It is time to throw out our exceptional identity and humble ourselves... We have always done good in the world—it is in our DNA. The question is, are we ready to do better for our own people? Because the world includes every person in our faith—many of whom have been micro-aggressioned right out...Reading | By Marta I. Valentín | June 25, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Direct Experience, Humility, Identity, Inclusion, Living Our Faith, Multiculturalism, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Race/Ethnicity, Seven Principles, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element -
Shirley Chisholm was asked why she, a Black woman, was running for president: "You don't have a chance. Why are you doing that?" And she said, "Because I am in love with the America that does not yet exist," and that's how Unitarian Universalism is also....Quote | By Natalie Maxwell Fenimore | June 25, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, Anti-Oppression, Change, Commitment, Direct Experience, Generations, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Race/EthnicityWorship element -
Commentary: Diverse Revolutionary Unitarian Universalist Multicultural Ministries is renewing its relationship with the UUA.June 1, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Anti-Racism, Race/EthnicityPage/Article
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Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism drafts bylaws, introduces membership program, and works to end cash bail.By Elaine McArdle | April 24, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Community, Criminal Justice, Justice, Race/Ethnicity, UU TheologyPage/Article -
Joanne Bland, co-founder of the National Voting Rights Museum in Selma, Alabama, shares her memories with Families editor, Susan Lawrence to offer a child's-eye view of a community rising for liberation.Utility | By Susan Dana Lawrence | April 16, 2019 (reviewed December 2024) | For Children, Youth, Adults | From Faith Curricula LibraryTagged as: Activism, Juneteenth, Justice, Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday, Nonviolence, Race/EthnicityPage/Article -
America has not yet faced our history of slavery, nor the malicious colonization and oppression of the Indigenous peoples.Homily | By Heide Cottam | January 7, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 6th Principle (World Community), Anti-Oppression, Brokenness, Challenge, Compassion, Direct Experience, Empathy, Humility, Race/Ethnicity, Reconciliation, Truth, WorshipWorship element -
A white woman pulled over and ran over to me with a shopping bag. As I looked down at the bag, I had very mixed emotions.Reflection | By Rayla D. Mattson | November 14, 2018 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Caring, Connections, Contemplation, Direct Experience, Faith, Generosity, Grace, Gratitude, Kindness, Parents, Race/EthnicityPage/Article -
I want to tell you about my bicycle. The frame is a sparkly kind of blue and it has pink handlebar tape. And guess what color the wheels are? Lime green! I love my bicycle. Now suppose this was your bicycle. And suppose one day you biked to school and totally forgot to lock your bike when you got...Story | By Isabel Call | November 9, 2018 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), America, Anti-Oppression, Direct Experience, History, Indigenous American, Race/Ethnicity, ThanksgivingWorship element -
In 1617, a few years before English settlers landed, an epidemic began to spread through the area that became southern New England. It likely came from British fishermen, who had been fishing off the coast for decades. By 1620, ninety to ninety-six percent of the population had died. It decimated...Reading | By Myke Johnson | November 4, 2018 | From WorshipWebTagged as: America, Anti-Oppression, History, Indigenous American, Race/Ethnicity, ThanksgivingWorship element