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The VUU talks with the founders of Happy, a smartphone app designed to offer emotional support from everyday people on demand. The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Aisha Hauser, Tom Schade, Joanna Fontaine Crawford, Hank Peirce, and Bob LaVallee. The VUU airs Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode first aired May 26, 2016.
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Lena Gardner and Leslie MacFadyen talk about the BLUU program track at the Unitarian Universalist Association’s 2016 General Assembly held in Columbus, Ohio.
For more information: http://www.blacklivesuu.com/ga2016/
The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Aisha Hauser, Joanna Fontaine Crawford, Tom Schade, Hank Peirce, and Bob LaVallee. The VUU airs Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode first aired May 19, 2016.
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Robin DiAngelo joins The VUU to talk about her new book “What it Means to be White”. The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Joanna Fontaine Crawford, Tom Schade, Aisha Hauser, Hank Peirce and Bob LaVallee. The VUU airs on Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode first aired May 12, 2016.
*No, this post will not be commenting on the various childishness that we’ve all seen from candidates and their supporters throughout this 2016 election cycle. We’re talking about actual, chronologically-delineated children, most of whom already have an opinion about this election, no matter how little cable news they are allowed to watch. Trust me on this.
Every election season, many of us find our lives inundated with the campaign cycle and its persistent negativity and demagoguery. As Unitarians Universalists, we often struggle with how to respond to the polarization that we see in the news, on social media, in our communities and often our own families and neighborhoods. The democratic process, religious freedom, the shared inherent dignity of all, and the search for truth and meaning, as well as many other values, shape not only our views, but how we choose to live in the world and how we treat others. Read more →
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The Rev. Tom Schade and Bob LaVallee sit down with folks who are attending the 2nd Annual Economic Sustainability of Ministry Summit for a special bonus edition of The VUU LIVE from 24 Farnsworth in Boston, MA. The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Tom Schade, Joanna Fontaine Crawford, Aisha Hauser, Hank Pierce and Bob LaVallee. It airs Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode first aired May 5, 2016.
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Hot on the heels of the historic inaugural national gathering of trans religious professional UUs in April, the Rev. Joanna Crawford and Aisha Hauser sit down with members of TRUUsT, Transgender Religious Professional Unitarian Universalists Together. The Rev. Mykal Slack, Zr. Alex Kapitan, and the Rev. Anya Johnston will talk about transgender welcome, inclusion, and justice in Unitarian Universalism.
The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Tom Schade, Joanna Fontaine Crawford, Aisha Hauser, Hank Pierce and Bob LaVallee. It airs Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode first aired May 5, 2016.
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Rev. Susan Moore talks with The VUU crew about being a UCC minister serving All Souls DC. The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Joanna Fontaine Crawford, Tom Schade, Aisha Hauser, Hank Pierce, and Bob LaVallee. The show airs Thursdays at 11 am ET and is available as podcast on iTunes. This episode first aired April 28, 2016.
Sometimes, it is tempting to think about justice only as something “out there,” something that is about causes and actions and social change. But justice is also about how we treat ourselves and the people around us and in our families. The way we treat people individually has a big impact on those larger issues, even if it’s hard to tell right away.
Dr. Cornel West tells us, “Justice is what love looks like in public.” You can tell yourself this quote too, to remind you of why justice is so important. When we work for justice, we are embodying love in our communities; this is how we change the world!
Usually we honor someone from our history who serves as a role model on this page, but there are plenty of UU justice-makers who are living and working right now.
Take, for instance, Lena K. Gardner, who is the Membership and Fundraising Director for our own Church of the Larger Fellowship. Lena is a leader with the Black Lives Matter movement in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She organizes and speaks out and brings people together to protest racist ways that the police have treated Black people in their community and other places around the country.
Working with many other people—many of them young adults or even teenagers, they have protested police killing unarmed Black people and demanded that city officials change policies to hold police accountable.
Always using peaceful strategies, they have held protests in America’s biggest shopping mall and on the highway and in front of a police station.
Some people have objected to the Black Lives Matter slogan, saying that all lives matter. But Lena and many others are pushing people to understand the many ways in which Black people are treated as if their lives don’t matter. They are working for a world where everyone finds fairness.
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