Racial Justice Team The UUFM Racial Justice Team meets on Zoom, on Sunday, September 6, at 4 pm. We will be joined by Teresa Parks, from the local Black Lives Matters movement. Log in at https://zoom.us/j/93071448824?pwd=anpnaEE4SU9mU2N5NjJLZDFLcGQwQT09 The meeting ID is 930 7144 8824 The password is zeandale. Learn more from Jonalu Johnstone at revjonalu@uufm.net, or … Continue reading Social Action – August 2020
For some years now, the warnings about fascism have increased. Now, we witness federal troops taking protesters from the streets of Portland, Oregon, and expanding their presence to other cities. Who knows what will happen between the time I write this column and you read it? This series of events may have been impossible without … Continue reading Jonalu’s Journal – August 2020
Amidst the intensity of national and world events, I don’t always know how to respond, or even what is going on. The reactions to the murder of George Floyd and the on-going violence against Black lives have intensified … In the midst of a pandemic and economic crisis. Our world today is a sad, scary, … Continue reading Jonalu’s Journal – July 2020
Contact UUFM Social Action Coordinator Judy Nickelson at judynickelson @ gmail.com, to learn about all social justice efforts at the Fellowship. Racial Justice Team The UUFM Racial Justice Team invites everyone to join in a discussion of How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X Kendi. We’ll meet on Sunday, July 5, at 4 … Continue reading Social Action – July 2020
I wish a lot more people would embrace not knowing. I say that both to those who embrace the dominant narrative, as well as to those who hew to dissenting ones. What information might we be blocking out, in order to maintain the integrity of our viewpoints? Let’s be humble in our beliefs: it is … Continue reading Jonalu’s Journal – June 2020
Contact UUFM Social Action Coordinator Judy Nickelson at judynickelson @ gmail.com, to learn about all social justice efforts at the Fellowship. Racial Justice Team The UUFM Racial Justice Team invites everyone to join in a discussion of How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X Kendi. We’ll meet every Sunday in June, at 4 … Continue reading Social Action – June 2020
It might seem like one of our easier monthly themes. After all, compassion sounds … well, nice. It conjures up a bunch of warm feelings. Images come to mind of people telling each other they are keeping them in their thoughts. It would seem to be all about emotional connection and empathetic feeling. But then … Continue reading Compassion (June 2020)
Contact UUFM Social Action Coordinator Judy Nickelson at judynickelson @ gmail.com, to learn about all social justice efforts at the Fellowship. Racial Justice Team The UUFM Racial Justice Team meets Sunday, June 7, at 4 pm. We’ll be reading How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X Kendi, and invite everyone to join us … Continue reading Social Action – May 2020
We know that the world we return to from the domain of coronavirus isolation will not be the same as the world we left. We were already feeling on the cusp of something new–too soon to know whether new would be good or bad. With climate change, political stalemate and dysfunction, increased nationalism around the … Continue reading Jonalu’s Journal – May 2020
When encountering thresholds, we often talk as if our work is that of successfully “passing through” them. We speak of “making healthy transitions.” We seek out advice and support as we decide which thresholds to lean into and which to resist. The goal, it would seem, is figuring out how to travel forward in the … Continue reading Thresholds (May 2020)
