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198: What’s New on the Side of Love with Nora Rasman and Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen
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Join our hosts as they chat with Nora Rasman and Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen about what’s new from the UUA’s Standing on the Side of Love campaign.
We are already saved from perfection. Doing this work is not neat and tidy, it is messy. You can’t get an app for it. Develop the spiritual fortitude to embrace the discomfort and the mistakes. – Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen
Mentioned in the show:
*Black Youth Project 100
http://byp100.org/
*Dream Defenders
http://www.dreamdefenders.org/
* Lena Gardner sharing Adrienne Maree Brown’s work at the Kaleo Center
https://www.facebook.com/KaleoCenter/
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197: Holding Police Accountable with Adam Gerhardstein
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Join our hosts as they chat with civil rights lawyer Adam Gerhardstein about holding police accountable.
Links mentioned on the show:
* Evicted: Poverty & Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
http://evictedbook.com
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Nominating Committee Seeks Leaders
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The CLF’s Nominating Committee seeks members to run for positions beginning June 2018. Read more →
Did You Know?
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That the CLF’s Worthy Now website offers education and opportunities for those involved in prison ministry? Check it out at worthynow.org. Read more →
Buddy
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She arrived early Monday morning: homeless, forlorn-looking, carried by the maintenance worker who had found her. Read more →
Blessing
November 2017
You were not just blessed for yourself, you were blessed to be a blessing to others. ―Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Articles
To Be a Blessing
I love my job. I love driving to the hospital each morning, having no idea of what will happen that day—who I’ll meet, what I’ll do, whether there will be triumphs or tragedies, joy or heartbreak, setbacks, small signs of progress or holding patterns. Read more »
Bless One Another
What does it mean to bless one another? Is it an invitation to the divine? Is it an expression of good wishes? Read more »
A Father’s Blessing
I have not forgotten—nor will I forget until all memory fades—the day, the moment, in which my father and I parted. Read more »
Calling on Wholeness
I decided early on in my work as a minister that if someone asked me to bless something, I would say yes whenever humanly possible. Read more »
From Your Minister
Blessings exist independently of time, in the land of the eternal. I know this most concretely in my garden. Read more »
Nominating Committee Seeks Leaders
The CLF’s Nominating Committee seeks members to run for positions beginning June 2018. Read more »
REsources for Living
Lots of people, UU and otherwise, say a blessing before eating together. And for Thanksgiving it’s even more common. Read more »
Did You Know?
That the CLF’s Worthy Now website offers education and opportunities for those involved in prison ministry? Read more »
Buddy
She arrived early Monday morning: homeless, forlorn-looking, carried by the maintenance worker who had found her. Read more »
Blessing
You were not just blessed for yourself, you were blessed to be a blessing to others. ―Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Read more »
196: UUs, Music and Appropriation
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Join our hosts as they chat about Unitarian Universalists, music and appropriation with guests DeReau K. Farrar, Director of Music at First Unitarian in Portland, and Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout, Director of Music and Worship at First UU of Ann Arbor.
Links mentioned on the show:
* Decentering Whiteness in Worship, UUA Webinar: https://www.uua.org/worship/words/decentering-whiteness-worship-webinar
* The Promise and the Practice
https://www.uua.org/worship/words/promise-and-practice
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195: Dismantling Oppression in Governance
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Join our hosts as they chat with UUA Co-moderators Elandria Williams and Mr. Barb Greve about dismantling oppression in governance.
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194: Testimony: The Transformative Power of Unitarian Universalism
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Join our hosts as they chat with Joanne Fontaine Crawford and Mandy Goheen about the book Testimony: The Transformative Power of Unitarian Universalism. What are your stories of UU testimony?
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The VUU streams live on Thursdays at 11 am ET. We talk social justice, Unitarian Universalism, religion, spirituality, and whatever else is topical and interesting!
Hosts: Meg Riley, Michael Tino, and Aisha Hauser; production support provided by Jessica Star Rockers
The VUU is brought to you by the Church of the Larger Fellowship
