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How an Austin church agreed to offer an immigrant sanctuary | UU World

CZ

“The call for sanctuary for Sulma Franco came to First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin, where I’m senior minister, because we have the reputation of being welcoming to LGBT folks, and because the Rev. Marisol Caballero, minister of religious education and congregational engagement, had been doing antiracism work within the congregation and beyond. Word had gotten out in the immigrant community.

Could we help?”

http://www.uuworld.org/articles/deciding-offer-sanctuary?utm_source=f

Courage leads to change in this world.

This congregation lived out the first and second principles.

~Namaste
Cricket

Democracy as a Religious Practice

LdeG

You have to learn how to pray. You might spend years trying to master meditation–or coming to understand that meditation isn’t something that you master. The same is true with democracy. In order to practice it, you have to learn it. To meditate you need to learn how to breath, how to sit, how to unfocus your mind. To practice democracy you need to learn rules of order, how to run a meeting, how to bring silenced voices into the conversation, when to speak and when to keep still.

Colin Bossen: Writer, Preacher, Organizer | Blog | Democracy as a Religious Practice

http://colinbossen.com/the-latest-form-of-infidelity/14182745/democracyasreligiouspractice

What To Do After You Notice All Religions Are False

Robert

Unitarian Universalism has two principal currents and two methodologies that exist sometimes smoothly, sometimes not so smoothly which are derived ultimately from the two traditions that formed the Association. The first is Unitarianism, which has historically been concerned with reason and ethics. The slogan for this current has been “salvation by character.” The second is Universalism, which has been concerned with healing, and for which the slogan has been “God is love.” Or, “Love over creed.”

What To Do After You Notice All Religions Are False: My Story of Sorting Wheat from Chaff & Finding a Life Worth Living

James Ishmael Ford

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/monkeymind/2015/10/what-to-do-after-you-notice-all-religions-are-false.html

On Care for Our Common Home

Robert

“Beginning in the middle of the last century and overcoming many difficulties, there has been a growing conviction that our planet is a homeland and that humanity is one people living in a common home. An interdependent world not only makes us more conscious of the negative effects of certain lifestyles and models of production and consumption which affect us all; more importantly, it motivates us to ensure that solutions are proposed from a global perspective, and not simply to defend the interests of a few countries. Interdependence obliges us to think of one world with a common plan.”

Encyclical Letter Laudato si’ of the Holy Father Francis, On Care for Our Common Home