#261 The VUU – The UUMA Executive Team
Join our hosts Aisha Hauser, Christina Rivera and Rev Michael Tino, and guest host, Julica Hermann de la Fuente, for a live Unitarian Universalist talk show discussing today’s topics from an anti-raci
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Committing to Antiracist Love in Interracial Intimacy
By Crystal M. Fleming | I’m going to let you in on a dirty secret. Back when news first broke of Prince Harry dating biracial actress Meghan Markle, I became quietly obsessed. I knew it made no sense
American Society Now More Than Ever Race and Ethnicity in America Crystal Fleming How to Be Less Stupid About Race
St Helena: Recalling the Patron Saint of Spiritual Tourism
Me, I love saints. There are a ton of saints in the Roman & Orthodox calendars. Originally, in their corner of the Reformation, the Anglicans stripped their calendar down dramatically. Although they
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Interview with Lucien Greaves
Controversial in Pagan communities as well, The Satanic Temple's work on religious and personal freedoms has aligned with many Pagan and poytheistic social values. TWH interviews Lucien Greaves about
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eulogy at #StopTheBans
The eulogy I gave over those who “died” during the die-in at the Louisville Stop the Bans rally today. We gather today to remember and to grieve. These people, these women, these human beings who were
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Skip to the Good Stuff
May 16th, 2019 Tonight we gathered together in circle and found that there are large changes afoot. We are recovering from physical and mental traumas, and are often feeling impatient or frustrated wi
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Crossroads
No, not that Robert Johnson, this is the Institute for New Economic Thinking guy, who was interviewed with a lovely winter Davos backdrop 4 years ago, when puffy jackets were still cutting edge fashio
Renewing our Welcoming Congregation status
At the congregational meeting, we will be voting on whether or not to renew our welcoming congregation status with the UUA, thus shaping our congregation’s future. By voting “yes” to becoming a welcom
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Today we had a visit by staff members from Arkansas A+ Schools in preparation for further training in June which will allow us to become an official A+ School. A+ refers to the integration of the Arts
The Trans Affirming Collective is June’s share the plate recipient
The Trans Affirming Collective (TAC) is June’s share the plate recipient. TAC is a Social Justice Action Team at FUUN formed in 2017 and dedicated to Creating Community through activities that let our
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Media Roundup: Goodridges discuss making history at great personal cost
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Debt, Redemption, and Loving One Another
Americans have a lot of debt. The national debt is above $22 trillion and consumer debt is around $14 trillion. The ACLU’s report, “A Pound of Flesh: The Criminalization of Private Debt” which found p
Personal Responsibility is Non-Transferable, Part 2 of 5
"I know you cannot read my mind, but I hope you feel my vibe; I think it's time I let you know that, I see the God in you." If we recommit to an ethic of personal responsibility, grounded in love, how
“‘The engineering of consent’
at the hands of power elites has become a characteristic technique of our time, in both the totalitarian and the ostensibly democratic societies. Indeed, in some sociological circles the intellectual
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Clara Barton and the Founding of the American Red Cross
On May 21, 1881 Clara Barton, already famed for her tireless work as a Civil War nurse , organized the founding meeting of the Association of the American Red Cross (later the American Red Cross) in t
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Presento una comunicación sobre Twitter y periodismo al XXV Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Periodística
Presento una comunicación al congreso de la Sociedad Española de Periodística, que se celebra el 30 y 31 de mayo en Bilbao. Se titula “Comunicación y media literacy en la era de Twitter” y la he hecho
Periodismo
Craving
Perhaps your craving is for chocolate, or for coffee. Maybe your craving is for affirmation or attention or status. It’s hard to imagine that anyone gets through this life without some kind of hunger
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Mercy help us put down any shame for being embodied, perfectly...
Mercy help us put down any shame for being embodied, perfectly imperfect, loving and not done learning and living yet
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Bosie: The Case for the Defense
On February 26, the Wandsworth LGBTQ+ Forum hosted a theatrical event, “The Trial of Lord Alfred Douglas,” the mock trial staged at the Oscar Wilde Temple, to determine whether Douglas was guilty of t
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Game of Thrones: Did You Really Expect a Happy Ending?
We were never going to get a happy ending. Honestly, I expected more deaths and far more chaos. What we got was as good as we were ever going to get. And also, we got eight seasons of brilliant entert
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