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UUA’s first online-only General Assembly calls for solidarity with Indigenous communities, supports defunding police, and formalizes human rights investment screen.By Christopher L. Walton | July 9, 2020 | From UU WorldTagged as: General Assembly, Governance, Indigenous Rights, Justice, Politics, Socially Responsible Investing, UUA Governance & ManagementPage/Article -
WHEREAS, 2020 marks the 400th anniversary of the first Mayflower voyage, transporting Pilgrims from England to the North American Atlantic Coast; ...2020 | Action of Immediate WitnessTagged as: Indigenous Rights, Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries, ThanksgivingPage/Article
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BECAUSE Unitarian Universalist congregations covenant to affirm the inherent worth and dignity of every person, and to promote justice, equity and compassion in human relations, we proclaim loudly, Black Lives Matter! ...2020 | Action of Immediate WitnessTagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, Criminal Justice, Due Process & Civil Liberties, Racial Justice & Multicultural MinistriesPage/Article
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Programming from General Assembly 2020, designed in partnership with Indigenous leaders in the Northeast and beyond to explore how to co-exist in right relationship with one another and the land we occupy.Utility | June 17, 2020 | From Doctrine of Discovery and Rights of Indigenous PeoplesTagged as: Indigenous Rights, Past General Assemblies, Racial Justice, Racial Justice & Multicultural MinistriesPage/Article -
When, exactly, did the looting start? We, in the UUA’s International Office, seek to lift up the histories of imperial looting and theft by empires seeking only to satiate their infinite appetites for power and domination. We steadfastly remain in solidarity with Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples across the globe...By Global Connections & Emerging Communities | June 11, 2020 | From Global Unitarian UniversalismTagged as: Anti-Racism, Global Human Rights & JusticePage/Article -
In April of this year, in Washington DC, my Aunt Mae learns that she has to fight an aggressive cancer that is overtaking her blood system. She is shipped to a low-standard hospital, rather than to the better hospital closer to her home.By Janice Marie Johnson | June 8, 2020 | From LeaderLabTagged as: #COVID19, Families & Faith Development, Racial JusticePage/Article -
A message to white Unitarian Universalists.By Susan Frederick-Gray | June 4, 2020 | From UU WorldTagged as: Anti-Racism, Justice, Nonviolence, Politics, ViolencePage/Article -
(25 minutes) Materials Newsprint, markers, and wall-safe tape Handout 3, The Margin, the Center Participants’ copies of Handout 2, “I” to “We”: From Individualism to Collective Identity Preparation Copy Handout 3 for all participants. Description Invite participants to remember the...May 27, 2020 | From Harvest the Power, 2nd EditionTagged as: Inclusion, LGBTQ Welcome & Equality, Racial Justice & Multicultural MinistriesCurriculum page -
Please join our ad-hoc group of Indigenous people and allies to urge your Members of Congress to take appropriate actions to protect the lives of our Indigenous loved ones – and all people – living in federal prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...May 15, 2020 | From Love ResistsTagged as: #LoveResists, Criminal Justice, Indigenous RightsPage/Article -
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?Utility | By Eric Dew Bliss | May 14, 2020 | From Pacific Western RegionTagged as: Compassion, Faith Development, Membership Growth & Outreach, Multiculturalism, Shame, WorthPage/Article
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How do we as people and as congregations meet the intensity of this moment with curiosity instead of defensiveness?Utility | By Tandi Rogers | May 14, 2020 | From Pacific Western RegionTagged as: Faith Development, Listening, Membership Growth & Outreach, MulticulturalismPage/Article
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Many of our congregations can sometimes get stuck in polarized, either/or thinking. Are you an atheist or a theist? Are you racist or woke? The deeper spiritual truth is such divisions are an illusion.Utility | By Jonipher Kūpono Kwong | May 14, 2020 | From Pacific Western RegionTagged as: Faith Development, Membership Growth & Outreach, MulticulturalismPage/Article
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In our striving to do our best and be our best, we as people and we as congregations can sometimes gravitate toward perfectionism--a force that cuts us, and others, down. How can we learn to honor the good about who we are and what we're accomplishing, knowing that it's incomplete, knowing that it's imperfect?Utility | By Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | May 14, 2020 | From Pacific Western RegionTagged as: Faith Development, Gratitude, Membership Growth & Outreach, Multiculturalism, WholenessPage/Article
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December 4, 2019 The first of the candles in the Advent Wreath is the candle of Hope. In the Lutheran tradition of my childhood, we always lit Advent candles this time of year. Winter is often a time when we look for hope. We look with hope for the return of the sun in the months to come. We hope...Utility | By Sarah Movius Schurr | May 14, 2020 | From Pacific Western RegionTagged as: Despair, Faith Development, Hope, Membership Growth & Outreach, MulticulturalismPage/Article
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What would our communities and our lives be like if we lived from our faith more than from our fear?Utility | By Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | May 14, 2020 | From Pacific Western RegionTagged as: Faith, Faith Development, Fear, Membership Growth & Outreach, MulticulturalismPage/Article
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Shifting from the hyperindividualistic thinking embedded in so much of American culture to an interdependent collective way of being.Utility | By Tandi Rogers | May 14, 2020 | From Pacific Western RegionTagged as: Faith Development, Membership Growth & Outreach, MulticulturalismPage/Article
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September 2019 This is the season of shifts—some of you have new staff, new board members, and a new church year upon us. We are all shifting gears of sorts. Your regional program staff is also shifting into the new year. Our late August retreat felt like a launch into a new era for us. This...Utility | By Tandi Rogers | May 12, 2020 | From Pacific Western RegionTagged as: Change, Faith Development, Membership Growth & Outreach, MulticulturalismPage/Article
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Unitarian Universalist Association calls for urgent action to support Native American tribe that first welcomed its Pilgrim religious ancestors 400 years ago.By Elaine McArdle | April 17, 2020 | From UU WorldTagged as: Indigenous Rights, Justice, PoliticsPage/Article -
The American environmental movement is rooted historically in ideas about pristine wilderness, free from human presence, that replicate colonial patterns of white supremacy and settler privilege. Native-led movements are changing the script.Feature | By Dina Gilio-Whitaker | March 1, 2020 | From IdeasTagged as: Environment, History, Indigenous Rights, NaturePage/Article -
Wherever you may be in your process of hiring and supporting staff at this moment, exploring your vision and values is an important starting place for thinking about diversity.Leader Resource | By Jan Gartner | February 17, 2020 | From LeaderLabTagged as: Anti-Racism, Staffing & SupervisionPage/Article