Your Body is Your Body
A reminder that you are in charge of your own body.
Read More169: UU Talks with Peter Bowden and Twinkle Manning
Peter Bowden and “Twinkle” Marie Manning join The VUU to introduce us to the new UU Talks. This initiative helps congregations and other organizations share their own UU values and ideas with the world through Ted Talk-like live events. UU Talks provides coaching and mentoring for all the pieces that go into producing, promoting and distributing an event. It is an ideal tool for both small and large organizations to enhance their fundraising incomes, community outreach, and publicity. Learn more at http://uutalks.org.
Read More170: Moral Resistance with Jen Butler
The VUU welcomes the Rev. Jen Butler, CEO of Faith in Public Life. We talked about the need for moral resistance against the Trump administration’s use of religious freedom to discriminate against people. Faith leaders have a unique role to play as prophets who tell the truth about the present, and faith communities have power at the local, state and national levels particularly when they work together.
Read More171: Black Lives of UU
Kenny Wiley and Lena K. Gardner join us from the Black Lives of UU organizing collective. What a full and deep conversation about immigration, the threats to penalize protestors and how that will change organizing tactics, the need to move from reactionary to visionary, the life-giving form of creativity around resistance. Plus, Kenny, Lena and host Aisha Hauser made a passionate and compassionate call for white UUs to step up both their internal and external work around anti-racism and anti-oppression.
Read More172: Susan Frederick-Gray, Candidate for UUA President
Susan Frederick-Gray is 1 of 3 candidates for UUA President. She emphasizes the importance of fundraising and mission as central to the role of president.
Read MoreCovenant
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy… deathless song in the house of night. —Leonard Cohen
Read MoreThus Do We Covenant…
A number of years ago, I was the guest preacher at one of our small congregations in northern New England.
Read MoreThe Covenants We Keep
My seminary classmate was 30 years older than me. I sat in his small apartment, hoping for the kind of wisdom and guidance I had already come to know he might provide.
Read MoreFor All Those Who Seek Help
Our liberal religious covenant… is to trust one another enough… to seek help when we’re down and to offer assistance when we’re able.
Read MoreBound in Covenant (Excerpt)
A covenant is not a contract. It is not made and signed and sealed once and for all, sent to the attorneys for safekeeping or guarded under glass in a museum.
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