In our series of exploring our new UU Values, this is the one that comes out of our 8th Principle to dismantle systems of oppression. We'll be exploring what it means to have freedom FROM oppression but also to build a world where we are building FOR a new world.
UUs are bound by covenant which includes how we are spiritually called to care for the Earth. How can we be ecotheologians for this time? Today we delve into womanist contributions to the environmental justice movement to deepen our religious understandings about our relationship with the earth.
Should we drive an electric car? Go vegan? Buy only local? Unsubscribe from companies that support problematic programming? It is hard to figure out how to be a "good" person in this complicated capitalistic society. Together, we'll explore how complex these decisions are and how the answer isn't about being "good," but rather understanding the mutual web in which we exist.
In the third of our series on the new UU Values, we'll be exploring Equity and just how hard it is to see the dignity and worthiness of each and every person. This value is central to our faith, so why is it just so hard to do?
On this Martin Luther King weekend, we must recognize that a key part of the Civil Rights movement was organizing for voting rights. It is over 50 years past the Voting Rights Act and yet we need this prophetic work now more than ever. As the election season ramps up--both nationally and locally, let's explore the work ahead of us as a civil rights act.
In an uncertain future, being careful is a common posture in how to move through the world. As a covenantal tradition, we are called to faithfully follow through on our relationship commitments to ourselves and one another. Join us as we discover how compassion is a promise and a practice inviting us into more care-full commitments.
