The Commission on Institutional Change joined us on The VUU for a six-part series discussing the report findings after three years of intensive work culminating in early 2020.

The Church of the Larger Fellowship supports the Movement for Black Lives and lifts up the work of Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism.

CLF chatted live on The VUU with Dr. Takiyah Nur Amin about what’s new with BLUU.

You can find out more about BLUU here:

Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism

7 Principles of Black Lives

BLUU Best Practices for engagement with Black Organizers in UU Spaces

Imagine what our faith would look like if we upheld and centered the history, the perspectives, the voices, and the leadership of Black Lives of Unitarian Universalists…

Prophetic Voices from the Frontlines and Beyond

Your Life Matters
Right now we as Unitarian Universalists are being called to act. We are being called by our ancestors—those who demanded that we help end slavery, that we fight for suffrage, that we join the struggle to end Jim Crow, that we listen to and honor Black Power.
by Kenny Wiley

Healing
Don’t speak to me of “healing” racism,
or “wounded souls” or the “painful hurt”
until you are willing to feel the scars
on my great-great-grandmother Laury’s back.
by Adam Lawrence Dyer

Visitors in the Struggle for Racial Justice
It’s not the specific methods that are making people uncomfortable. It’s the fact that the struggle for racial justice is seeping into their awareness in ways that they can’t ignore.
by Aisha Ansano

A Theology of Liberation to Inspire White Anti-racist Organizing
An interview with The Rev. Ashley Horan
by Chris Crass

Nights Can Be Tough
I can’t fully express how scary it is when a man with a gun tells you ‘you’re fighting and trying to walk away from me’ as you stand still, attempting to comply.
by Kenny Wiley

We Are All Bound Up Together
Frances E. W. Harper (1825–1911) challenged us to practice a religion of justice.
by Kenny Wiley

A New Ethos
How the Unitarian Universalist Association is promoting Beloved Community today.
by Taquiena Boston

In Baltimore, My Liberation is Bound up with Yours
The minister of First Unitarian Church in Baltimore reflects on #BaltimoreUprising.
by The Rev. David Carl Olson

Statement from UU Religious Professionals of Color RE: Baltimore
From individual UU religious professionals of color

A Unitarian Universalist Black Lives Matter Theology
To fight for black lives now is to participate in radical hope. It is to battle for salvation on this Earth. It is to fight for life, for love, for justice. It is to demand more out of the first principle. It is to demand a more perfect faith.
by Kenny Wiley

“Know it. See it. And Love it.” Reflections after the Grand Jury Reveal
Love is what keeps us here 109 days later. “Love sometimes sits with rage. And anger. And pain. And grief. But it is love.” @deray
by The Rev. Krista Taves

Reflections on Ferguson MO, Two Weeks In
There isn’t only one story here, anywhere, not among the law enforcement, not from the Ferguson community, not from Black Americans, not from other people of color, not from white people, not from our politicians, not from the media, and not in this church. There are many many stories, and we need them all.
by The Rev. Krista Taves