141: A UCC Minister at a UU Church
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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.
What Justice Looks Like
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!
Making Justice Now
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.
Justice-Makers Lena K Gardner and Pastor Danny Givens, Jr, CLF prison chaplain
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.
A Public Voice for Justice
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At the CLF we strive to be a public voice for justice and to curate a conversation that leads to deeper understanding of how we can build a more just world. Read more →
Justice Behind Bars
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Three of our CLF prisoner members wrote pieces for Quest Monthly on the theme of Justice. What follows are excerpts from these pieces. Read more →
Did You Know?
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…that the CLF offers a variety of online classes? Check it out here. Read more →
Justice
May 2016
It is justice, not charity that is wanting in the world. —Mary Wollstonecraft
Articles
Calling Forth Justice
How many of you have a decent relationship with the Bible —as in, you’ve had at least a couple of conversations and neither of you left angry? Read more »
Anger and Justice
The only word repeated more than once in our seven UU principles is the word “justice.” We are called to justice. Read more »
A Public Voice for Justice
At the CLF we strive to be a public voice for justice and to curate a conversation that leads to deeper understanding of how we can build a more just world. Read more »
Justice Behind Bars
Three of our CLF prisoner members wrote pieces for Quest Monthly on the theme of Justice. What follows are excerpts from these pieces. Read more »
From Your Minister
When it comes to justice-makers on the front lines, one group of people often shows up—mothers. And when mothers truly know that, as the saying goes, “there’s no such thing as other people’s children,” I believe we have the power to accomplish anything. Read more »
REsources for Living
In her column, Rev. Meg talks about how mothers have a special urge toward justice, born out of a fierce love for their children that demands a world where those children—all children—can be safe and respected. Read more »
Breathe
Breathe, said the wind. How can I breathe at a time like this, when the air is full of the smoke of burning tires, burning lives? Read more »
140: Showing Up for Racial Justice
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Erin Heaney, National Organizing Director for SURJ, And Rev. Cathy Rion Starr talk about the movement that has inspired many UUs.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 April 21, 2016.
139: Black Lives of UU
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The Rev. Carlton E. Smith and Kenny Wiley from the Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism (BLUU) organizing collective join us. We will discuss BLUU efforts to make GA more accessible for black UUs, and how we can develop spiritual fortitude for the struggle. We will also get an update from founder of the Hot Stove Report Hank Pierce! The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Joanna Fontaine Crawford, Tom Schade, Aisha Hauser, and Hank Pierce, and airs Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode first aired April 14, 2016.
