Join VUU Hosts Rev Donte Hillard, and Aisha Hauser MSW CRE-ML who discuss Worship and UU Liturgy. What does worship mean to you? How does a faith tradition with shared values of pluralism and love practice that when we are gathered together virtually, in person in a brick and mortal congregation or across time? What…

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Join VUU Hosts , Rev Donte Hillard, Rev DC Fortune, and Rev Dr. Michael Tino for a discussion on what they are reading for brain nutrition, uplift of the soul and for joy or pleasure. Discover the power of story, and the freedom of telling new tales. The topics ranged from abolition and Conjure, to…

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Join VUU Hosts, Rev Dr. Michael Tino, Rev DC Fortune, and Aisha Hauser MSW CRE-ML for their roundup on elections around the country including Maine, New York and Pennsylvania. Do these elections signal a change in United States domestic policy that centers people as the CLF continues to do with their abolition CSAI?  Want to…

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Join VUU Hosts Rev Donte Hillard, Rev DC Fortune, and Aisha Hauser MSW CRE-ML as they speak about organizing as individuals against fascism around the globe, but also how grief can manifest with changing realities. How are religious institutions and faith leaders answering the call of this moment? We, as communities of people with love at…

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VUU Hosts, Aisha Hauser-MSW, CRE-ML, Rev. Donte Hillard, Rev. DC Fortune are joined by the authors of Imani Rituals, Anthony Y. Stringer, Ayanna Kafi, and Duncan E. Teague to discuss the ways Unitarian Universalist congregations must be culturally pluralistic to become a religious home to all who cross their threshold. Their book, Imani Rituals, centers…

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Join VUU Hosts Rev Donte Hillard, Rev DC Fortune, Aisha Hauser MSW CRE-ML and Rev Dr. Michael Tino for a wide ranging discussion centering love in public. They link abolition, the US political system, and the role of religious institutions. Discover how living out Unitarian Universalist values through life-giving worship propels skillful action to create…

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VUU Hosts Rev Donte Hillard, Rev DC Fortune, and Rev Dr. Michael Tino discuss the Church of the Larger Fellowship’s Congregational Study Action Issue (CSAI) on abolition, and upcoming classes. Start the conversation on the theologies that undergird the United States’ political and social systems which result in a carceral nextwork based on punishment and…

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VUU Hosts Aisha Hauser MSW-CRE-ML, Rev. DC Fortune, Rev Dr. Michael Tino, and Rev Donte Hillard are joined by Rev. Dr. Lucas Herbert to discuss his new book which covers the need and ask for impassioned preaching and embodied worship within Unitarian Universalism in these times.

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In this archival episode of the VUU, historian Dr. Paul Ortiz joins to disscuss educational upheaval in Florida beyond diversity, equity and inclusion, and its historical precedents. His book, An African American and Latinx History of the United States was published by Beacon Press. To support this ministry and help us continue to reach people…

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Join The VUU hosts Aisha Hauser and Michael Tino for the first live music episode with Parker Woodland! Friend of the band David Johnson also joins to talk regional organizing, community care and the framework of abolition that the CLF seeks to establish. Parker Woodland music: parkerwoodland.bandcamp.com Coalition to abolish slavery in Texas: https://befrank4justice.org/cast UU…

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