When people think about our congregation’s racial justice programming, one concern sometimes raised is that we do a lot of thinking and talking about racism, but not a lot of doing anything proactive and productive to change things. It can certainly be argued that, for people who have been raised to think of themselves as white,...
Want to discuss the Public Witness statement supporting Black Lives Matter and racial justice? Cottage meetings are just the thing! Choose from July 9 or July 24. Sign up in Social Hall, or here,or by emailing Ldukes88@gmail.com
Please join us for 8-weekly sessions in Mindfulness Meditation – July 5 to August 23. Doug Rogers, a TJMC Covenant Group facilitator, will facilitate the group. To register, please contact Doug at MindfulnessTJMC@gmail.com.
UUCF is a welcoming place to explore your spirituality within a liberal Christian context. Gatherings may include, music, sermons, discussion, readings from the Bible, meditation, movement, sharing of joys and sorrows, food and drink, and they always include compassionate fellowship. All are welcome!
The group Allies for Racial Equity, in collaboration with the Church of the Larger Fellowship, is hosting a series of webinar conversations to support racial justice efforts, and the next two sessions focus on white resistance. Youth and adults of all ages are encouraged to participate, whether this is their first experience...
Worship Weavers work collaboratively to weave our community’s worship experiences, and to deepen their own understanding of the ministry of worship as it is manifested in our congregation and in the Grand Experiment that is Unitarian Universalism.
Last night Dr. M. Rick Turner, President of the Albemarle-Charlottesville chapter of the NAACP, spoke to a group of about 3 dozen people who had come to hear his thoughts about the most serious issues facing Charlottesville’s African American community, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the best way white...
When the congregation voted on Sunday, April 17, to move forward the proposed Public Witness Statement, it was a move that took this church further toward a commitment to address racial injustice, both in the community at large and in the life of the church. Among priorities the statement addresses...
It is nearly two years since we last took a survey of how we as a community were thinking and feeling about our community – and it was a big one! Experts in the field strongly recommend that you not survey people too frequently because of a thing they call,...
Historian Phyllis Leffler’s recent interview on the Coy Barefoot show got me thinking. Leffler talked about the significance of the public monuments controversies happening all over the country, north and south. Barefoot wondered about re-visioning installations that invite people to re-encounter history in public spaces, rather than removing controversy or...