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Rooted, Inspired & Ready

Some ideas inspired by the UUA General Assembly this year…

You can visit UUA GA 2020 Public Recordings to view the recorded Worship Services and some other events. Whatever time you take to experience the thought and care from around the world that brought us all together Virtually will be worth your while.

My head is still swimming with ideas from the workshops I attended. 

The 2020 Ware Lecturer was given by Naomi Klein, only viewable to registered attendees called us to action on Earth Justice and the connections to Racial & Economic Justice. Living by our Principles calls us into action. 

She is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University, and an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and international and New York Times bestselling author of, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal (2019)

Sophia Fahs Conversation

“Reflecting on Teachings Indigenous Peoples” (Jean Mendoza, Natalie Martinez)

“Settler Colonialism and Genocide” Rev. Adam Lawrence Dyer, Rev. Dr. Clyde Grubbs, and Rev. Karn Van Fossen

“Settler Colonialism and a History of Erasure and Exclusion” (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz) (featured speaker)

“Deeper Than The Skin: Musical Presentation on Race” (Reggie Harris & Greg Greenway)

Actions of Immediate Witness:

  • Amen to Uprising: A Commitment and Call to Action
  • 400 Years of White Supremacist Colonialism

Read what you can from the:

Commission on Institutional Change Report 

We can be involved the important campaign:

UU the Vote which is our half-plate recipient for the month of August.

I’m excited to consider connecting with the Nipmuk Nation as an individual and as a congregation as we prepare to celebrate the 275th Anniversary of the beginnings of First Parish Northboro.

We invite you to consider: 

◦  What are your roots (personal, social & theological)? 

◦  What inspires you? 

◦  What are you ready for? 

The Commission on Institutional Change

This Article from the UU World and the video linked are essential to continued growth and sustainability in our own congregation.

RACIAL JUSTICE

RECOMMENDED READING

VIDEOS
TV
COMMON READS from the UUA

INCOME INEQUALITY

IMMIGRANT RIGHTS

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS

ADDITIONAL READING

  • Cultivating Empathy: The Worth and Dignity of Every Person — Without Exception Author: Nathan Walker Cultivating Empathy: Experiments with Moral Imagination, Nathan C. Walker – 2016 – ‎No preview Throughout the book he endeavors to find connection with skinheads, murderers, homophobic preachers, privileged 1 “percenters”, and Monsanto executives.

YOUNGER READERS