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- Racism as tribal warfare vs. racism as structural oppression
- Consider two recent incidents that have generated discussion about racism. 1. Florida neighborhood watch member George Zimmerman chases down Trayvon Martin, a local black teenager. There is a confr...
Posted on debitage (Site / Info) on Thursday May 17, 2012 - Untangling the Measuring Tape by Rob Spirko
- When I was a kid, running around with the other kids in the neighborhood, playing war games, I would sometimes have my character sustain a pretty serious injury, often losing a limb. In retrospect,...
Posted on Equual Access (Site / Info) on Thursday May 17, 2012 - Thursday, May 17: Justice for Military Families
- Inspiration:“Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens”—Plato Justice for Military Families As a person of Unitarian ...
Posted on Daily Compass (Site / Info) on Thursday May 17, 2012 - Study Guide for UUWorld Article: Unitarian Universalist Church of Ogden, UT
- The Summer edition of the UUWorld features an article about a Praiseworthy Parish. The following study guide is intended to accompany the article about the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ogden, ...
Posted on Growing Unitarian Universalism (Site / Info) on Thursday May 17, 2012 - The Day the Dam Broke—Thurgood Marshall Wins Brown v. The Board of Education
- NAACP lawyers celebrate outside of the Supreme Court after winning the Brown v. Board of Education and related cases in 1954. Left to right, George G.C. Hayes, lead attorney Thurgood Marshall, and ...
Posted on Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout (Site / Info) on Thursday May 17, 2012 - Morning Prayer May 18, 2012
- Lover of Life meet me here in the garden of my soul for a few moments out of the hustle and buzz of the day. When I meet the destroyer, it is in the whispers of my own heart, calling through the ca...
Posted on UniversalistPrayers (Site / Info) on Thursday May 17, 2012 - Evening Prayer May 18, 2012
- It is not the tree that travels over to the next grove to share its song and its dreams in the day or in the dark. The tree blossoms and sends forth, profligately, on the breeze and on the backs an...
Posted on UniversalistPrayers (Site / Info) on Thursday May 17, 2012 - Governor Lincoln Chafee with Members of the Religious Coalition for Marriage Equality
- Posted on Monkey Mind (Site / Info) on Wednesday May 16, 2012
- An online tool I’d actually use
- Anne, who sits on our congregation’s board, pointed out a really useful online tool: SignUpGenius.com. Their tagline reads: “Organize volunteers online for free.” It was started by church people; t...
Posted on Yet Another Unitarian Universalist (Site / Info) on Wednesday May 16, 2012 - Today is Ascension
- Later. What? It’s Wednesday? Long week. Tomorrow is Ascension. Long-time readers know that I love the feast of the Ascension, when Christ took leave from his followers and figuratively lifted up hu...
Posted on Boy in the Bands (Site / Info) on Wednesday May 16, 2012 - $16,700 a year
- That’s the minimum wage in Santa Clara County, California, where “the self-sufficiency standard for two adults, one preschooler, and one school age child is $77,973.” So if both of those adults bot...
Posted on Sermons in Stones (Site / Info) on Wednesday May 16, 2012 - Culture Wars and the Children of the Gray
- The culture wars were on full display recently as the president came out for gay marriage at the same time as North Carolina voted for an amendment to limit all partnership rights to married heter...
Posted on news from the underground (Site / Info) on Wednesday May 16, 2012 - Is "Straight White Male" The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is? Part Three
- Emma Bull has the best answer yet. (Why, yes, I'm prejudiced, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.) From her comments at Scalzi’s Latest: But I didn’t get MY say!: Our host is saying, I think, that ALL...
Posted on it's all one thing (Site / Info) on Wednesday May 16, 2012 - The National Youth Justice Summit
- The National Youth Justice Summit, an exciting program for UU youth happening from July 7th-14th in Boston, seeks applicants! Dynamic workshops, field trips to exciting local organizations, daily ...
Posted on Living Mosaic (Site / Info) on Wednesday May 16, 2012 - learning by doing...
- A blog reader pointed out in a comment that most teachers would agree with me about how children learn, and yet, we know that schools are not set up to deliver hands-on learning for a variety of re...
Posted on Wisdom of the Hands (Site / Info) on Wednesday May 16, 2012 - The Second Smooth Stone of Liberalism
- When Meg first brought up this topic to me, she wrote: “Everyone will be encountering more than one child who has [autism]. I think Unitiarian Universalists should be speaking not just to racial di...
Posted on Lake Chalice (Site / Info) on Wednesday May 16, 2012 - There Is Real Religion And There Is The Empty Shell Of Religion
- "Religion, too, often avoids the dark by hiding behind platitudes and false assurances. Nothing is more irrelevant than feeble religious piousness in the face of stark, life-threatening darkness. R...
Posted on The Loving Room (Site / Info) on Wednesday May 16, 2012 - New Immigrant Justice Resources
- The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) has just released two new resources to help communities engage with immigrant justice work in anticipation of the upcoming Justice General Assembly in P...
Posted on Standing On The Side Of Love ยป Blog (Site / Info) on Wednesday May 16, 2012 - The Doctrine of Discovery: The True Story of the Colonization of the United States of America
- “The Doctrine of Discovery: The True Story of the Colonization of the United States of America”, new fourteen-minute video, suitable for adults, young adults, older children, and youth, invites us...
Posted on Cooking Together (Site / Info) on Wednesday May 16, 2012 - "Ask, seek, find how you may help. The world needs you & your blessings"
- “Ask, seek, find how you may help. The world needs you & your blessings” - Naomi King - Twitter: @revnaomi
Posted on Chalice Light (Site / Info) on Wednesday May 16, 2012