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  • The UUA responds to the most recent onslaught of oppressive laws and policies threatening the lives of trans and nonbinary+ children and the LGBTQIA+ community and continues to work for justice and the ability of all people to thrive.
    March 6, 2023 | From Press Releases
    Tagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, #LGBTQ, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Solidarity, Worth, Anti-Racism, LGBTQ Welcome & Equality
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  • adrienne maree brown and Sonya Renee Taylor create an unforgettable and transformational experience of journaling your way into your most authentic self. 2022 General Assembly Featured Speaker...
    Book | By Adrienne Maree Brown, Sonya Renee Taylor | June 17, 2022
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Journey, Self-Care, Transformation, Wholeness, Worth, Personal Inspiration
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  • ‘Your sacredness does not come from your doing’
    Feature | By Sarah C Stewart | June 1, 2020 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Community, Self-Care, Worth
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  • How do we learn to live, as people and as congregations, like we are worthy of love? How do we live into compassion for ourselves and others?
    By Eric Bliss | May 14, 2020 | From Pacific Western Region
    Tagged as: Compassion, Shame, Worth, Multiculturalism, Faith Development, Membership Growth & Outreach
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  • I’ve been talking with some of you who are parenting children and teens with special needs at home during this pandemic. I’m hearing that the standard parenting advice out there doesn’t feel relevant and even feels shaming and harmful.
    By Sarah Lammert | April 14, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Children's Faith Development, Families & Faith Development, Family, Parents, Worth, Youth Ministry, Disability & Accessibility
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  • We’re staying home. Love has never asked this of us before. We’re staying home, this is our gift to humanity. Let us wish each other well. For those staying home alone, I offer you this blessing. May you grow a deeper understanding of your own worth. Dear one, leaven the aloneness with gentle...
    Affirmation | By Linda Barnes | April 7, 2020 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: #COVID19, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Building Community, Direct Experience, Faith, Families & Faith Development, Family, Love, Patience, Peace, Social Media, Worth, Communication
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  • I was made this way, in this body and this skin. Like all beings, I have an inherent good that cannot be eclipsed.
    Reflection | By Katie Romano Griffin | November 20, 2019 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Courage, Direct Experience, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Worth
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  • You matter. There is no one like you; never will be again, from the birth of the earth to its outermost end. You — an eager shout, a sacred “Yes!” that moves your flesh, your bone, your breath. You— she, he, ze, they, you are whole and okay, gracefully teaching your truth and your way. You...
    Affirmation | By Matthew Rosin | September 7, 2019 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Humanism, Identity, Secular, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Worth
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  • This group blessing is designed to be shared by many voices or read by just one. Alex suggests creating an altar with a chalice and testing supplies (which are then distributed to students as they need them). Speaker 1: We have come to the end of the quarter/semester/year. An end to these classes.
    Blessing | By Alex Haider-Winnett | June 19, 2019 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Bridging Ceremony, Challenge, Choice, Commitment, Direct Experience, Education, Forgiveness, Friendship, Growth, Responsibility, Secular, Wisdom, Worth
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  • Voice 1: You are beloved and you are welcome here Voice 2: Whether tears have fallen from your eyes this past week or gleeful laughter has spilled out of your smiling mouth Voice 1: You are beloved and you are welcome here Voice 2: Whether you are feeling brave or broken-hearted; defiant or...
    Opening | By Joan Javier-Duval | January 16, 2019 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Acceptance, Brokenness, Caring, Community, Compassion, Diversity, Inclusion, Love, Unitarian Universalism, Wholeness, Worth, Worship
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  • Based on a true story that happened at the 1976 Special Olympics in Seattle, WA ...
    By Susan Dana Lawrence | August 13, 2018
    Tagged as: 6th Principle (World Community), Acceptance, Body, Disability, Families & Faith Development, Kindness, Success, Unity, Worth, Faith Development
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  • What if we encouraged and celebrated each other for who we are? What if, instead of criticizing, we challenged with love, affirming the good we see in one another?
    Reflection | By Connie Simon | March 21, 2018 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Acceptance, Compassion, Connections, Direct Experience, Humanism, Secular, Self-Respect, Unitarian Universalism, Worth
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  • Spirit of Compassion, remind us that our task as humans is not perfection, but faithfulness.
    Reflection | By Lindasusan Ulrich | January 31, 2018 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Acceptance, Balance, Direct Experience, Forgiveness, Humanism, Letting Go, Psychology, Secular, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Worth
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  • I had dreams about anywhere-else-but-here But our faith kept me close. I believed I had done something to deserve it. Our faith shouted, “No!” I tried to imagine it never happened But our faith reminded, “Yes, grief is real.” I thought I might die But our faith nurtured my life. I wondered...
    Poetry | By Megan Visser | January 23, 2018 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Community, Doubt, Inclusion, Living Our Faith, Love, Salvation, Unitarian Universalism, Wholeness, Worth
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  • I pull another basket of steaming dishes out of the dishwasher in our church basement. My partner in kitchen clean-up grabs a clean dish towel to dab the pools of water from the upturned soup bowls. They ask, “So, what’s your undergrad in?” The conversations that happen in church kitchens are...
    Reflection | By Kari Kopnick | July 13, 2017 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Anti-Oppression, Class, Direct Experience, Education, Self-Respect, Work, Worth
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  • The blasphemy of body hatred has no place in this temple.
    Poetry | By Misha Sanders | February 27, 2017 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Beauty, Body, Dignity, Direct Experience, Diversity, Fat Liberation, Humanism, Inclusion, Secular, Self-Respect, Women, Worth
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  • Unitarian Universalists support the dignity and rights of people all across the spectrum of gender. Read More...
    Press Release | By Unitarian Universalist Association | May 12, 2016 | From Home Page Story
    Tagged as: Dignity, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Worth, LGBTQ Welcome & Equality
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  • Within each of our hearts there is a most glorious light....
    Benediction | By James Morison | April 4, 2016 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Generosity, Healing, Hope, Humanism, Love, Secular, Strength, Unitarian Universalism, Wisdom, Worth
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  • How often we seek refuge in this sacred flame From the world’s trouble and pain. Today, may our lamp light the way For whose who know no refuge, That we may open our minds Our arms Our hearts Our mouths to sing “Come, whoever you are,” Wholly new and wholly true.
    Chalice Lighting | By Amy Carol Webb | November 24, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Compassion, Disaster, Hope, Hospitality, Inclusion, Interdependence, International, Journey, Leadership, Pain, Unitarian Universalism, Worth
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  • I heard the Second Brandenburg Concerto played in honor of Bach’s 300th birthday, and I was swept away. I remembered a story about the people who send messages into outer space. Someone suggested sending a piece by Bach. The reply was “But that would be bragging.” Some say we get what we...
    Reading | By Robert Walsh | November 18, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Arts & Music, Awe, Beauty, Direct Experience, Gratitude, Humility, Thanksgiving, Wonder, Worth
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