Most of us want our lives to have mattered. We want to have been contributors, however small, to the world around us. Meaning adds a crucial element to our existence. It goes beyond the material, beyond comfort, beyond happiness, to a deeper level of being. It reaches past our personal needs and gives something to […]
We will bring in the New Year with rituals to release our fears and share our hopes, accompanied by inspirational readings and music. Sunday services: In-person or virtually on Vimeo.Click here to view the Vimeo Live Services
The most difficult part of spiritual growth for many of us is living in the moment. So many of us build up protective armor against naked experience. We reach for preemptive labels and judgments to avoid feeling anxiety or hurt. But true mindfulness requires shedding that armor and accepting life in all its richness and […]
As we work with our allies in Black congregations to address racial inequities in our community, we do so against a local history of civil rights activism. People with whom we toil have family who lived those times. Those experiences deserve our appreciation and our apprehension that while some tactics have changed, overcoming racial inequities […]
As UUs, we covenant to affirm and promote justice, equity, and compassion in human relations. In adopting the proposed 8th principle, we further covenant to act to dismantle racism and other oppressions. But there is only so much we can do as individuals and as a single congregation. Joining together with our brothers and sisters […]
Implicit biases are subconsciously harbored by all humans. They can pose a significant challenge to dismantling oppressions experienced by people who differ from dominant culture norms of race, sexuality, physical abilities, neurodiversity, and other attributes. UUCT Allies for Racial Equity members Linda Wright and Bob Deyle will explore the nature of implicit bias, how it […]
