How You Can Support Human Rights in Sudan—and Beyond
Support women and youth on the frontlines, now.
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What I Write When I’m not Writing
I want to write here. To you, and not just to myself. I’ve wanted to write. I’ve wanted and wanted…</p> The post What I Write When I’m not Writing appeared first on Taking Up Space.
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Introducing the Responsibility Covenant
Introducing the Responsibility Covenant A Tool for Inclusive Organizations In 2021, the Canadian Unitarian Council–the national organization where we work–adopted a new guiding principle. This princip
Into The Weeds
Fiftieth anniversary
It is exactly 50 years since September 11, 1973, when the United States government helped topple and kill the democratically elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende, in order to install a dictato
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Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." It's a line from a song by The Who. Some of you may be thinking, “Just who does this new guy think he is?” – so I hasten to clarify: I’m not the boss. But le
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T-shirts (and other stuff) for trans lives
At our neighborhood’s Fiesta on the Hill yesterday, I saw a man wearing this t-shirt, and I loved it. He didn’t remember where he got it, only that it benefited a Texas group working for trans rights,
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It’s Time for Bike Club!
Jim Beasley started volunteering with the Boys Scouts and a simple charge: “Get home with the same number you left with.” Not so different from volunteering with a bike club. Beasley helped start All
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Lives of the Spirit
The first sermon in the 11 part series, lives of the spirit. The post Lives of the Spirit appeared first on Colin Bossen.
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Global Health — Why You Must Care
The September 10 forum talk features Richard Skolnik, a Yale instructor in Global Health with decades of related worldwide experience. It will focus on the fact that "the health of anyone, anywhere is
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Ingathering: The Church Is US
Join us as we gather for the beginning of a new church year, as we pause to remember just what it is that makes this "church."
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Weekly Bread #239
It’s easy to get confused sometimes about our own relative importance. I mean we ARE the center of our individual lives – at least if we are not excessively codependent on someone else. And what we do
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Beacon Behind the Books: Meet Salvatore Ambrosino, Digital and Social Media Intern
Publishing has been my opportunity to participate in a cause which best puts to use the skills I acquired throughout college.
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Prayer for Refuge with Ourselves
A Prayer for Refuge with Ourselves Beloved, when we are anxious, frightened, weary, angry, confused, and alienated from our sense of being whole, of belonging, or of being enough, may we pause and bre
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Faith Formation
I recently asked some of our families what brought them to the fellowship. Some of their answers were, “I was looking for a community that held my values,” “We were looking for a progressive religious
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Essential Guiding Principles for When the Light Goes On
By Mike Rose | Educational opportunity depends on more than what happens within the schoolhouse. Employment, housing, food security, healthcare, safe streets—these are the social and economic issues t
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Unitarian Universalists Kick Off the New Congregational Year with Ingathering: Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt offers words of inspiration, support, and shared values for the new year in her first Ingathering video
Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt, the newly-elected president of the Unitarian Universalist Association offered words of inspiration, support, and shared values to congregations throughout the country as UUs
Visiting Eastern Europe’s Grassroots Frontline Responders: Listening to Impacted Communities
Part one in a series examining the work and impact of UUSC’s partners in Eastern Europe.
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Yearning For Wildness
I’m one of the most order-obsessed people I know, but I’m yearning for wildness. Because the roots of the wild are still very much in us, and the wolf and the dog both howl at the moon.
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September Theme: Sources of Inspiration
As Unitarian Universalists, we affirm that inspiration can come from the laughter of a child, the beauty of a forest, some of life’s challenges, meaningful conversations, an experience of the Holy, tr
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How to form a Labor Union
A Labor Sunday sermon devoted to that ever important subject, "how to form a labor union." The post How to form a Labor Union appeared first on Colin Bossen.
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