Helpful hints for living by your own lights
Chalica is a week long holiday celebrating the Seven UU Principles. It is a time of reflection, community, and living our faith.
Here are some ways to help you celebrate.
Two Meditations:
God of all Oppressed Persons by Robin F. Gray
To Right the Wrongs of our Kin by Leslie Takahashi
A Thought to Ponder:
If you had a magic wand, what would you do to make this world a better place?
A Song:
Indigo Picture Credit: Kris Nobis Cervantes
Chalica is a week long holiday celebrating the Seven UU Principles. It is a time of reflection, community, and living our faith.
Here are some ways to help you celebrate.
A Meditation:
Reflections from Standing Rock by Kristin Grassel Schmidt
A Story to read:
The Great Pie-Rat Controversy by Naomi King
A thought to Ponder:
What would you do if you were president?
A few songs:
Blue picture credit: Kris Nobis Cervantes
Chalica is a week long holiday celebrating the Seven UU Principles. It is a time of reflection, community, and living our faith.
Here are some ways to help you celebrate.
A few Meditations:
Meditation on Opposites by Alex Kapitan
All This Talk of Saving Souls by Linda M. Underwood
A thought to ponder:
What do you know to be absolutely, unequivocally true?
A Song:
Green picture credit:
Chalica is a week long holiday celebrating the Seven UU Principles. It is a time of reflection, community, and living our faith.
Here are some ways to help you celebrate.
A Meditation:
Marginal Wisdom by Leslie Takahashi
A thought to Ponder:
The adult version of this principle states we accept one another. Who do you have a hard time accepting?
A Song:
A Story:
Yellow picture credit to Kris Nobis Cervantes.
Created by Ralph Roberts
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Chalica is a week long holiday celebrating the Seven UU Principles. It is a time of reflection, community, and living our faith.
Here are some ways to help you celebrate.
Two Meditations:
A Prayer for Rising to the Occasion by Laura Horton-Ludwig
To the People who Have Mistaken Freedom for Justice by Theresa I. Soto
A Thought to Ponder:
Should you be kind to people who hurt you? What about people who commit really terrible crimes?
A Song:
Orange picture credit: Kris Nobis Cervantes
Chalica is a week long holiday celebrating the Seven UU Principles. It is a time of reflection, community, and living our faith.
Here are some ways to help you celebrate.
A Meditation: Prayer of Storytelling by Mandie McGlynn
A thought to ponder:
What makes someone important? Is it their abilities, their job, their status? Or, is it something more?
A Song:
Red Image Credit: Kris Nobis Cervantes
From Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray’s facebook post
In the Spring of 2017, our association went through a significant institutional rupture that was also intensely personal for many at the heart of those events. Since then, the UUA has recommitted itself to the work of institutional change, to living into the aspirations of our beloved faith community that is anti-racist, anti-oppressive, multicultural and deeply inclusive. At the same time, as a religious community there was also personal repair work that needed to happen, including with the institution of the UUA.
Acknowledging this, a number of people impacted by the events of the Spring of 2017 gathered recently to engage in a restorative conversation. This process was not about expecting agreement nor getting to full resolution, or healing all that was broken. Rather, this was about making space to gather as people – people within a shared faith – to honor and recognize one another’s humanity with all of our feelings and experiences, and to own our own roles as well as our pain.
Together, with our facilitators, we created a statement to describe our gathering, its purpose and character, which I invite you to read. I shared this as part of my recent report to the UUA Board of Trustees and have permission from those who gathered to share it widely with our larger Unitarian Universalist community. I invite you to approach this statement with curiosity and care, and to let the possibility for restorative practices open your heart.
Here is the repair statement
“No pull quotes – this piece needs to be read in full.
Thank you Bart Frost for all your work for the association, and this brilliant perspective on how we can shape the future of this faith tradition.” – from the UUA’s Facebook in reference to the article below.
This was shared on the UUA’s facebook page this morning.
“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But, conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Corrosive and Malignant Danger of Remaining Silent About Racism
West Fork Unitarian Universalists 