Native American spirituality is spatial and land-based; it relies on relationship to nature and the non-human world and is grounded in particular places. This differs markedly from Western thinking in which abstract concepts of salvation, Christian superiority, and conquest mentality have been pushed on cultures through time. How do we as UUs frame our own … Continue reading Through an Indigenous Lens: Rethinking Land Relationships
As individuals and as a society, we face new stressors and burdens each day. Those things come on top of the baggage we are already carrying from our younger lives, things which have hurt or shaped us but don’t get talked about. It is important that we interact with and minister to each other with … Continue reading The Weight of the World: Trauma-Aware Congregations
Unitarian Universalist history is rife with colonizer thinking, failure to embrace change, and examples of “slow to act.” And yet we know that a tendency toward love of one another and right action has always been a part of our ethos. As we look at our struggle to fully embrace Beloved Community, what do we … Continue reading Are We The Ones We Have Been Waiting For
The Sankofa is a Ghanaian symbol of a bird with an egg in its mouth looking back over its shoulder. African-Americans refer to it as they honor the struggles of their people while going forward in determination and hope. What does it mean to “remember where we came from,” both as individuals and as communities? … Continue reading A Sankofa Life
