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This list includes every page or product with this tag from UUA.org, UU World magazine, or inSpirit books & gifts.

  • A child and her family take in refugees during the Korean War in this poignant picture book about courage and what it really means to care for your neighbors. Available for pre-order!
    Book | By Ann Suk Wang, Hanna Cha | March 12, 2024 | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop
    Tagged as: Children, Compassion, Empathy, Kindness, War, Refugees
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  • We pray for those with power to create peace
    Prayer | By Lara Cowtan | November 13, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Disaster or Crisis, Peace, Violence, War
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  • Let us set aside hate, and devote our lives to the ways of peace and justice.  
    Prayer | By Douglas Taylor | May 22, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Activism, Compassion, Living Our Faith, Peace, Solidarity, War
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  • If Russia abstained—as Article 27 of the UN Charter requires—the resolution would have passed.
    By Bruce Knotts | March 1, 2022 | From Ideas
    Tagged as: Human Rights, Peace, War
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  • Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reminds us that peace, justice, and human rights are linked and interdependent.
    By Bruce Knotts | February 23, 2022 | From Ideas
    Tagged as: Peace, War
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  • UUA signs January interfaith statement condemning U.S. assassination of Iranian military leader.
    By Staff Writer | March 1, 2020 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Military, War
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  • Spirit of life and love, God of memory, mourning and history, Bring before us the truths of serving in war Bring before us— In compassion and in gratitude— Those who faced violence so we may know peace We remember these sacrifices through monuments We remember these names, carved into stone...
    Prayer | By Heather K Janules | May 29, 2018 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), America, Death, Grief, Memorial Day, Military, War
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  • Official companion to the Ken Burns PBS film tells the little-known story of the Sharps, an otherwise ordinary couple whose faith and commitment to social justice inspired them to undertake dangerous rescue and relief missions across war-torn Europe, saving the lives of countless refugees, politi...
    Book | By Artemis Joukowsky, Ken Burns | June 30, 2017 | From Beacon Press
    Tagged as: Anti-Oppression, History, Human Rights, Living Our Faith, War, Anti-Oppression
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  • Rose Tanaka, a Denver UU, graduated high school at Manzanar, the infamous American internment camp for people of Japanese descent.
    By Kenny Wiley | May 15, 2017 | From Life
    Tagged as: Coming-of-Age, Human Rights, Personal Stories, War, Immigration, Social Justice
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  • A pocket-sized and durable little book of readings and songs to comfort and inspire.
    Book | By Matthew Tittle, Gail Tittle | October 18, 2016 | From Skinner House Books
    Tagged as: Military, Peace, War, Personal Inspiration
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  • Determined to find meaning in the midst of war, Captain George Tyger reflects on his faith, his prejudices, and his privilege, and shares the unique perspective he has gained while serving and ministering in a war zone.
    Book | By Captain George Tyger | October 18, 2016 | From Skinner House Books
    Tagged as: Personal Stories, War
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  • Collected here in print for the first time are four powerful essays from the head of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee and the former head of Amnesty International USA, based on his public addresses.
    Book | By William F. Schulz | October 18, 2016 | From Skinner House Books
    Tagged as: Activism, Ethics, Human Rights, Peace, War
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  • A new documentary about two Unitarian heroes is coming this fall to PBS.
    Review | By Denise T. Davidoff | September 1, 2016 | From Ideas
    Tagged as: History, Human Rights, Living Our Faith, UU History, War
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  • I saw the parade pass by with the last soldier marching. I saw politicians stand by not in pride, but in shame as they recited the names of the dead and admitted their failure. I saw the marching band step in time to silence, no more hymns of glory could they play. I saw mothers and fathers say,...
    Meditation | By David M. Horst | January 25, 2016 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 6th Principle (World Community), Arrogance, Death, Direct Experience, Ending, History, Memorial Day, Remembrance Day, Veterans Day, War, WorshipWeb
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  • Beloved Children of the Oneness of many names, you who cover the land in numbers greater than the stars, I petition you, I pray to you, because you are the fruit of God’s promise to the World; because each of you holds a piece of the truth of all that is; because the vision of Beloved Community...
    Prayer | By Jan Taddeo | December 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 6th Principle (World Community), Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Justice, Justice Sunday, Multiculturalism, Peace, Reconciliation, Reverence, War, WorshipWeb
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  • At least three U.S. congregations and 25 Canadian congregations are already sponsoring refugee families from Syria.
    By Elaine McArdle | December 21, 2015 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Human Rights, Immigration, Justice, War
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  • December fourteenth, “I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day” (1865). Unitarian Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Wrote "Christmas Bells" (a poem later set to music and renamed "I Head the Bells On Christmas Day") just months before the end of the Civil War. The poem captures the despair felt by the...
    Image | By Ralph Yeager Roberts | November 23, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Advent, America, Arts & Music, Christmas Eve / Christmas, History, Unitarianism, War, Winter Solstice / Yule
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  • A man sits on the rubble— not just in the rubble, but on the pile of what remains. No people in the bombed-out houses. No dogs. No birds. Just ragged hunks of concrete and loss. And on his perch he is playing an instrument constructed of what is left—an olive oil can, a broom handle, a bowed...
    Poetry | By Lynn Ungar | November 20, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Arts & Music, Direct Experience, Grief, Healing, Hope, Humanism, War, Wholeness
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  • Spirit of Hope, God of Many Names, Source of Love, We gather, hearts heavy with grief for our neighbors in Paris, in Beirut, in Baghdad; all cities victimized by terrorists. We pray for the victims, for the families, for the communities marred by chaos and hatred. May they have the resources they...
    Prayer | By Jude Geiger | November 20, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Compassion, Direct Experience, Immigration, Inclusion, International, War
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  • In honor of those who have served, And those who continue to serve, At home and abroad, for peace and in war, We light our chalice, And we offer our thanks.
    Chalice Lighting | By Cynthia Landrum | November 11, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: America, Conflict, Death, Freedom, Gratitude, Memorial Day, Military, Military Service, Peace, Sacrifice, Secular, Service, Veterans Day, War
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