Helpful hints for living by your own lights
“We’re better together. You’ve heard this before. And often it is in the context of pooling resources to create something larger than we could offer as a separate entity.”
http://growinguu.blogs.uua.org/organizational-maturity/roadtrip/
I’m ready for a road trip of growth and this article has some cool ideas.
Namaste,
Cricket
http://livingmindfullyuustyle.blogspot.com/2016/02/lent-2016-no-longer-irish-catholic.html?m=1
“Lent is a church season with the ultimate goal of making us a better person. May Easter find you transformed by your Lenten practice, and thereby find the world a little (or a lot) better. Blessings abound if we can but see them.”
This blog is from one my fellow UU Seminarians. I found it helpful for the upcoming season.
Namaste,
Cricket
https://www.uua.org/re/teachers/webinars
This is from the UUA’s Faith Development Webinar Series
Religious educators are key leaders in our racial justice work as Unitarian Universalists. And sometimes beginning conversations about race can be challenging—we fear that we’ll be awkward or use the wrong word or cause pain or contribute to exclusion. Join the Faith Development Office and the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry for a webinar featuring religious educators telling stories about naming race – stories of things going well, mistakes made, lessons learned and how our souls and skills grow in the process. Presenters: Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen, Lauren Wyeth, Sheila Schuh, Kirsten Hunter, and Rev. Jamil Scott.
Namaste,
Cricket
http://callandresponse.blogs.uua.org/a-white-privilege-wake-up-call/
There is a question embedded in this article.
“How can racism possibly be dismantled until white people, lots and lots of white people, understand it as an unfair system, get in touch with the subtle stories and stereotypes that play in their heads, and see themselves not as good or bad but as players in the system?”
This was a big discussion in one of my classes last semester at seminary. We have to see the privilege and then work towards equality.
Namaste,
Cricket
“The Black Lives Matter movement is the leading struggle for racial justice of our times. It is a movement led by Black people who are women, queer, youth, working class, including Black UUs around the country. It is a movement to end institutional racism and to respect the inherent worth and dignity of all people. It is a movement for collective liberation.”
This article by Chris Crass is about why the Black Lives Matter movement is so important to UUs. It also has some great ideas on how to support the movement towards the end of the article.
Namaste,
Cricket
https://childrenschalice.wordpress.com/2016/01/29/februarys-faith-formation-calendar/
This is a calendar of holidays in February. It also has links to ideas to celebrate them.
Have fun.
Namaste,
Cricket
http://www.raceconscious.org/2016/01/1066/
Katie Nachman will soon graduate with a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her focus is in clinical mental health and program development. She is a mother to three children, ages 9, 7, and 4. She and her family identify as White Americans of European descent.
Namaste,
Cricket
http://www.uua.org/ga/past/1966/ware
In 1966, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave the Ware Lecture at the UUA General Assembly. Here is a quote from the beginning of the speech, “The great question is, what do we do when we find ourselves in such a period? Certainly the church has a great responsibility because when the church is true to its nature, it stands as a moral guardian of the community and of society. It has always been the role of the church to broaden horizons, to challenge the status quo, and to question and break mores if necessary. I’m sure that we all agree that the church has a major role to play in this period of social change.”
We are still working. We are still fighting. We need to still be living our principles and working toward a vision of the world where all people are treated equally.
Namaste,
Cricket
https://m.soundcloud.com/davidkent-1/sets/the-chalice-meditations-guides
In our busy world it is hard to find time to meditate. This can help. Sit down and listen to these words. Take deep breaths.
Have a Blessed day.
~Namaste
Cricket
Exploring themes related to our changing world, the changing nature of church, the critical role of great collaboratie teams in navigating these changes, and religious education as a growth strategy, this program features talks and panel discussions with Carey McDonald, Patricia Infante, Starr Austin, Andrea Lerner, Patricia Hart, Cathy Seggel, and Pat Humphries & Sandy O. of Emma’s Revolution, plus a wrap up conversation with Carey McDonald and Peter Bowden. Full show notes including speaker bios and mentioned resources may be found on the pages for each of the 9 program audio tracks listed below.
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