The Journey Toward Wholeness Path to Anti-Racism was born out of the premise that racism and its effects are embedded in all social institutions as well as in us and won’t change without deliberate engagement in analysis and action. There are at least three ways of doing an analysis of racism.

To walk the path of the Journey Toward Wholeness is to heal the brokenness in our nation, in our faith community, and in our individual hearts. The work of anti-racism and anti-oppression is essentially spiritual work....

Many Paths, One Journey An Introduction Our Unitarian Universalist Principles call us to affirm The inherent worth and dignity of each person Justice, equity, and compassion in human relations The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all Yet we live in a world in which...

Truth, Repair, and Reconciliation: the 2007 Responsive Resolution Sundown towns are communities that for decades—formally or informally—kept out African Americans or other groups. Confronting a Family History of Involvement in the Slave Trade Empowerment: One Denomination's Quest for Racial...

The 2007 Responsive Resolution At General Assembly 2007, Rev. William G....

Sundown towns are communities that for decades—formally or informally—kept out African Americans or other groups. They are so named because some marked their city limits with placards warning specific groups of people to stay away after the sun went down. This allowed maids and workmen to...

The Commission on Appraisal's report, Empowerment: One Denomination's Quest for Racial Justice 1967-1982, was released at the 2005 General Assembly in Forth Worth, TX....

It is important for us to remain connected with what has come before, lifting up both victories and setbacks in the Unitarian Universalist Association's (UUA) history of race relations and anti-racism work. "Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." —George Santayana Engaging...

Along the Path to Accountability Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley writes "Our first task in approaching another people, another culture is to take off our shoes, for the place we are approaching is holy." Cornrows, Kwanzaa and Confusion: The Dilemma of Cultural Racism and Misappropriation In Unitarian...

By Marjorie Bowens-WheatleyOur first task in approaching another people, another culture is to take off our shoes, for the place we are approaching is holy. Else we find ourselves treading on another's dream. More serious still, we may forget that God was there before our arrival....

Questions to Ask (and Answer) Motivation Why am I doing this? What is my motivation?Goal What is the goal? Why do we want multiculturalism? Why this particular cultural material or event? Context What is the context in which I will use the cultural material?...

150th anniversary leaflet published by All Souls Church Unitarian, Washington, DC, 1972. Reprinted with permission. The most persistent problem in American life has been the gap between the values espoused and the values observed....

The thirteenth episode in the "A Religion for Our Time" series illustrates how First Parish in Cambridge, MA, has begun the process of transforming into a multiracial and multicultural congregation. For years, the congregation talked about becoming more diverse, especially as their surrounding...

The tenth episode in the "A Religion for Our Time" series shares insights from the fifteen-year journey of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis (UUCA), MD, toward becoming a more diverse congregation. "So the question is, how do you in your church begin to move toward this multiracial,...

“This report identifies a quiet crisis in our midst—that in our youth groups, we have already become demographically multicultural while in our programming, we have not yet developed the resources to address this new reality. Just take one fact from the report—that almost 80 percent of our...

These sample documents are to help guide you in reporting the anti-racism, anti-oppression, and multicultural (ARAOMC) activities on the congregational and cluster level. By reporting activities each year, congregations can begin to see progress on their ARAOMC path as well as hold themselves...

Gail Forsyth-Vail Rev. Kristen Harper Aisha Hauser Rev. Darrick Jackson Claudia Jimenez Kat Manker-Seale Kevin Mann Dr. Julio Noboa...

The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking on “Social Justice and the Emerging New Age” said, “We must face the fact that the church is still the most segregated major institution in America. At 11:00 on Sunday morning when we stand and sing and Christ has no east or west, we stand at the...