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  • One father, three years, and thousands of rides Poverty, By America meets Maid in this dad’s darkly humorous yet humanizing story of working long hours and late nights behind the wheel as a rideshare driver Available for Preorder...
    Book | By Jonathan Rigsby | March 12, 2024 | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop
    Tagged as: America, Economy, Poverty
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  • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. On order...
    Book | By Matthew Desmond | April 1, 2023
    Tagged as: Anti-Oppression, Poverty, Anti-Oppression, Economic Justice, Social Justice
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  • Why do people pass? Fifteen writers reveal their experiences with passing—including racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, gender, and economic forms of passing.
    Book | By Brando Skyhorse, Lisa Page | March 11, 2023
    Tagged as: Freedom, Identity, Poverty, Privilege, Race/Ethnicity, Relationships, Religion
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  • The inspiration for the PBS documentary premiering March 2023 The story of the revolutionary Black women welfare organizers of Las Vegas who spearheaded an evergreen, radical revisioning of American economic justice Available for pre-order...
    Book | By Annelise Orleck | February 26, 2023
    Tagged as: History, Politics, Poverty
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  • Love shows up in complicated conversations.
    Reflection | By Jo VonRue | February 1, 2023 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Children, Direct Experience, Love, Poverty, Shame, Worship
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  • An activist calls for better support of young families so they can thrive and reflects on her experiences as a Black mother and college student fighting for opportunities for herself and her child...
    Book | By Nicole Lynn Lewis | March 29, 2022
    Tagged as: Education, Poverty, Economic Justice
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  • Over 120 Unitarian Universalists participate in Poor People’s Campaign Moral March
    By Staff Writer | December 17, 2021 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Activism, Justice, Politics, Poverty
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  • A reflection from the Side With Love Sunday worship service.
    Reflection | By Laura Conkle | March 10, 2021 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: #30DaysOfLove, #SideWithLove, Direct Experience, Healing, Humanism, Inclusion, Justice, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Living Our Faith, Poverty, Secular, Unitarian Universalism
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  • The history of conquest is a scourge on the human condition. A lingering one.
    Quote | By Imani Perry | October 27, 2020 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Anti-Oppression, Evil, Freedom, Greed, History, Humanism, Oppression, Poverty, Secular
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  • Book to note: Redemption Songs: A Year in the Life of a Community Prison Choir.
    By Staff Writer | June 1, 2020 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Arts & Music, Poverty, Criminal Justice
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  • The new world of results-driven aid that could put an end to extreme poverty...
    Book | By Raj Kumar | May 28, 2020 | From Beacon Press
    Tagged as: Corporate Responsibility, Poverty, Economic Justice
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  • A collection of sermons and speeches that lay out a groundbreaking vision for intersectional organizing, paired with inspirational and practical essays from activists in today’s Poor People’s Campaign...
    Book | By William J. Barber II | August 15, 2018 | From Beacon Press
    Tagged as: Activism, Anti-Oppression, Faith, Poverty, Power, Anti-Oppression, Anti-Racism, Racial Justice
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  • Susan Frederick-Gray condemns tax bill as part of ‘all-out violent assault’ on poor, working class, and middle class people; interfaith movement plans nationwide campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience.
    By Christopher L. Walton | December 7, 2017 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Class, Economy, Politics, Poverty, Social Justice
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  • Someone had broken into our garage. We picked our way through the space, storage tubs strewn about, ready to make a list of what was missing: two wool sweaters and half a tent. Someone was suffering a misfortune here, but it wasn’t us.
    Reflection | By Becky Brooks | August 9, 2017 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Abundance, Direct Experience, Empathy, Family, Gratitude, Home, Letting Go, Poverty
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  • Holy One, known by many names and beyond all names, known in many ways and beyond our knowing: We gather together this evening in the cold of winter as people of many faiths, as Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Unitarian Universalists, as believers and non believers, young and old, gay and straight...
    Prayer | By John Saxon | April 6, 2017 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Anti-Oppression, Compassion, Hope, Immigration, Interdependence, Justice, Poverty, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Service, Unitarian Universalism
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  • What we would like to do is change the world—make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves... by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, the poor, of the destitute... [W]e can, to a certain extent, change the world; we...
    Quote | By Dorothy Day | December 19, 2016 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 6th Principle (World Community), Activism, Christianity, Class, Justice, Poverty, Service, Transformation, Work
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  • Tax-deductible charitable giving should not worsen existing inequalities. But it does.
    Feature | By Chuck Collins | November 1, 2016 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Education, Generosity, Governance, Politics, Poverty, Wealth
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  • Book | October 18, 2016 | From Beacon Press
    Tagged as: Poverty, Social Justice
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  • Bridges the gap between scholars in economic, theological and ethical disciplines, for concerned laity and clergy...
    Book | By Richard S. Gilbert | October 18, 2016 | From Skinner House Books
    Tagged as: Ethics, Generosity, Greed, Poverty, Economic Justice
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  • In the first episode of "Call the Midwife"—a British show about post-WWII midwives—the main character Jenny Worth is just starting as a midwife in the East End of London. She experiences a moment of disgust and overwhelm at witnessing the awful experience of one of her expectant mothers. She...
    Reading | By Forrest Gilmore | July 28, 2016 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 6th Principle (World Community), Activism, Compassion, Humanism, Integrity, Justice, Poverty, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Purpose, Service, Spiritual Practice
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