Resistance as Prophecy

One of the most powerful images I have encountered to describe the symbolic location of the prophet is Richard Rohr’s concept of living on the outside edge of the inside.

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Resistors and Capacitors

Our CLF community around the world is full of “resistors” and “capacitors”: people committed to resisting injustice and people committed to increasing the capacity of individuals and communities to respond with compassion and love in a difficult world.

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Resistance

Whenever you see a board up with “Trespassers will be prosecuted,” trespass at once. —Virginia Woolf

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Did You Know

…that you can read blog posts from our ministers Meg and Lynn, as well as other UUs,  on our website at www.clfuu.org?

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REsources for Living

One of the important ways of understanding this month’s theme of resistance is in terms of resisting injustice, or fighting back against the powers of evil, like the Resistance in the Star Wars movies.

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203: LREDA Fall Con Lessons Learned

2018-01-05 Join our hosts as they chat with Jessica York, Co-Director of Ministries and Faith Development and Annie Scott, LREDA President about the LREDA 2017 Fall Conference and the lessons learned. And due to technical difficulties, this video cuts out appropriately at the :45 mark. — The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Michael Tino,…

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205: Running for Office as a Matter of Faith with Rev. Carlton Elliott Smith

2018-01-18 Listen as our hosts chat with Rev. Carlton Elliott Smith about running for office as a matter of faith. Rev. Smith is Congregational Life Staff for the UUA’s Southern Region and a Democratic Candidate for Mississippi’s First Congressional District. The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Michael Tino, Christina Rivera and Aisha Hauser, with…

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204: Multicultural Centering with Sana Saeed and India Danielle

2018-01-12 In this show our hosts chat with Sana Saeed and India Danielle about the LREDA fall con and multicultural centering. Show notes: http://www.lreda.org/lredabrave The VUU streams live on Thursdays at 11 am ET. We talk social justice, Unitarian Universalism, religion, spirituality, and whatever else is topical and interesting! Hosts: Meg Riley, Michael Tino, Aisha…

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Finding a Church Home

This story, though somewhat long, takes me from my mid teens to my late 60s and my journey from a protestant church, to a fundamentalist church, to being unchurched, and finally to finding a new church home at the First Unitarian Church of Des Moines.

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