222: Forgiveness with Julie Taylor
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We chatted live on The VUU with Rev. Julie Taylor about forgiveness.
The Sunflower, by Simon Wiesenthal
Forgiveness and Revenge, by Trudy Govier.
The VUU streams live on Facebook every Thursday at 11 am ET. We talk social justice, Unitarian Universalism, religion, spirituality, and whatever else is topical and interesting!
Hosts: Meg Riley, Michael Tino, Aisha Hauser, and Christina Rivera; production support provided by Jessica Star Rockers.
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221: Justice on Earth with Manish Mishra-Marzetti, Jennifer Nordstrom, and Peggy Clarke
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This week on The VUU we chatted with Manish Mishra-Marzetti, Jennifer Nordstrom, and Peggy Clarke about their new book, Justice on Earth: People of Faith Working at the Intersections of Race, Class, and the Environment.
You can buy the book here: https://www.uuabookstore.org/Justice-on-Earth-P18357.aspx
The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Michael Tino, Aisha Hauser and Christina Rivera, with production support provided by Jessica Star Rockers. The VUU streams live on Thursdays at 11 am ET.
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Caminamos Juntos with John Simsarian and Samantha Silva Nogueda
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This week on #TheVUU we chatted with John Simsarian and Samantha Silva Nogueda about Caminamos Juntos, a new effort from the UU Fellowship in San Miguel de Allende to support Mexican National deportees from the US.
For more information visit http://cjsma.org.
The VUU is a live Unitarian Universalist talkshow featuring activists and community organizers, multi-faith leaders, UU insiders and other guests. We cover current events, social justice issues, religion, spirituality, faith, Unitarian Universalism, and whatever else seems interesting.
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Freedom of Association
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One of the gifts of a free society is that of freedom of association—we choose how we will come together, and to what ends. Read more →
Did You Know?
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You can listen to audio recordings of Quest Monthly, read back issues or get electronic versions of the text to share with friends (and much more) at questformeaning.org Read more →
Freedom to Do as We Will
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Rev. Dana McLean Greely, second from right in civil rights demonstration, in Selma, Alabama, 1965
We each have a measure of freedom
To do as we will. Read more →
Freedom
May 2018
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. ―Audre Lorde
Articles
Freedom From. Freedom To
Every spring at Stonewall Farm in Keene, New Hampshire—and at other dairy farms throughout northern New England—there’s a festival to celebrate the season. Read more »
Free and Responsible
Free and responsible. I would venture to say that freedom is the most cherished religious value for Unitarian Universalists. Read more »
Freedom of Association
One of the gifts of a free society is that of freedom of association—we choose how we will come together, and to what ends. Read more »
Free on the Inside
What is freedom? Is it an ideal, concept or right? Why are there so many people who are locked up inside themselves? Read more »
From Your Minister
I love poking around and discovering old words which are new to me. One word that surfaced from my reflections on freedom is the Old English frith, which is related to the words for both friend and free. Read more »
REsources for Living
You don’t have to spend very long on social media before it becomes clear that while everyone is in favor of freedom and responsibility, people mean very different things by those words. Read more »
Did You Know?
You can listen to audio recordings of Quest Monthly, read back issues or get electronic versions of the text to share with friends (and much more) at questformeaning.org Read more »
Freedom
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. ―Audre Lorde Read more »
219: UU Jewish Identity with Leah Hart-Landsberg and Marti Keller
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Join our hosts as they chat with Leah Hart-Landsberg and Marti Keller about UU Jewish identity.
Check out Leah and Marti’s book, Jewish Voices in Unitarian Universalism: https://www.uuabookstore.org/Jewish-Voices-in-Unitarian-Universalism-P17377.aspx
The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Michael Tino, Aisha Hauser and Christina Rivera, with production support provided by Jessica Star Rockers. The VUU streams live on Thursdays at 11 am ET.
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218: On Ministry and Disability with Sierra-Marie Gerfao and Theresa Ines Soto
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Join our hosts as they chat with Sierra-Marie Gerfao and Theresa Ines Soto about ministry and disability.
This conversation was inspired by Sierra-Marie’s article “On Ministerial Credentialing and Disability” which you can find here: https://www.facebook.com/notes/sierra-marie-gerfao/on-disability-and-uu-ministerial-credentialing/10155449678840975/
The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Michael Tino, Aisha Hauser and Christina Rivera, with production support provided by Jessica Star Rockers. The VUU streams live on Thursdays at 11 am ET.
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217: Prison Ministry with Mandy Goheen, Karen Mooney and Jason Lydon
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Join our hosts as they chat about prison ministry with Mandy Goheen, Director of Prison Ministry at Church of the Larger Fellowship, Rev. Karen Mooney, Director of the UU Prison Ministry of Illinois, and Rev. Jason Lydon, founder of Black and Pink.
Show notes:
Check out the CLF Worthy Now prison ministry: https://worthynow.org/. We have classes and events, a pen pal program, congregational partnership, and much more.
The Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry of Illinois. Restoration, Reintegration, Transformation. http://www.uupmi.org/
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The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Michael Tino, Aisha Hauser and Christina Rivera, with production support provided by Jessica Star Rockers. The VUU streams live on Thursdays at 11 am ET.
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