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The path of repentance is one that can help us not only to repair what we have broken, but to grow in the process of doing so.Reading | By Danya Ruttenberg | November 20, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Forgiveness, Reconciliation, WorshipWeb, WorshipWorship element
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A person is not entitled to forgiveness if they haven’t done the work of repair.Reading | By Danya Ruttenberg | November 20, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Forgiveness, Judaism, Reconciliation, WorshipWeb, WorshipWorship element
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The work of repentance demands curiosity, care, and a willingness to face hard things with bravery and honesty.Reading | By Danya Ruttenberg | November 20, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Conscience, Courage, Reconciliation, WorshipWeb, WorshipWorship element
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We must choose each other again and again, though conflict and through plenty.Reflection | By Abbey Tennis | June 29, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Conflict, Discernment, Love, Reconciliation, Relationships, WorshipPage/Article
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Spirit of Life, Source of Love, you who know our struggles and failures as well as we know them ourselves, be with us as we enter into this time of reflection. Give us the courage to travel through a moral inventory of our lives, to notice the places where we have missed opportunities to live our...Prayer | By Lyn Cox | October 16, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Community, Conscience, Ethics, Failure, Judaism, Reconciliation, Responsibility, Rosh Hashanah, Transformation, Yom KippurWorship element
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As Unitarian Universalists, our journey is to transform the big and the small, to transform ourselves, and to transform the world.By Elizabeth Nguyen | June 1, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Forgiveness, Justice, Politics, Reconciliation, Spiritual Practice, UU TheologyPage/Article
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God of Many Names, Mystery Beyond All Our Naming – Lift us above the divisions, Move us beyond inaction, And heal us that we may know our wholeness, within and together. As we emerge from this week’s election, A time of regrouping, of celebration and despair, let us continue on. May the...Prayer | By Beth Dana | January 16, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Challenge, Commitment, Compromise, Courage, Empathy, Reconciliation, Transcendence, UnityWorship element
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My soul nudged me from a hiding place to confess and to seek forgiveness, and only through the grace of the Great Mystery of Life unfolding around us did I receive the blessing of journeying with a beloved, grieving friend.Reflection | By Rebekah Savage | January 9, 2019 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Connections, Direct Experience, Failure, Forgiveness, Friendship, Guilt, Love, Reconciliation, Relationships, Self-Respect, VulnerabilityPage/Article
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Here’s a quiz about time travel posed by a friend of mine: Suppose you had a time machine but it only went back in time to specific events. If you used the time machine, you could only be a witness; you could not influence the events in any way and no one would be aware of your presence....Homily | By Heide Cottam | January 7, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 6th Principle (World Community), Anti-Oppression, Brokenness, Challenge, Compassion, Direct Experience, Empathy, Humility, Race/Ethnicity, Reconciliation, Truth, WorshipWorship element
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We feel the season turning. The early sunset glancing through the red-tinged leaves. The newspaper arriving in the cool morning air. The flock of migrating swallows. A feeling of being on the edge of something new. These are the Days of Awe. A time to welcome a new year and a time to make the old...Opening | By Ben Soule | January 7, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Awe, Conscience, Contemplation, Judaism, Mindfulness, Peace, Reconciliation, Rosh Hashanah, Sacred, Wonder, Yom Kippur, WorshipWorship element
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dear earth, / teach us to stand / like treesPoetry | By David Hummon | November 1, 2018 | From UU WorldTagged as: Acceptance, Arts & Music, Change, Connections, Nature, ReconciliationPage/Article
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A New Hampshire congregation attempts to repair past wrongs by the church against a devoted biracial Universalist minister, his sister, and their family.By Heather Beasley Doyle | November 1, 2018 | From LifeTagged as: History, Oppression, Race/Ethnicity, ReconciliationPage/Article
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We seek to reform Unitarian Universalism because we can never be the bearers of love and justice if the foundation that sustains us is still perpetuating the very problems we long to solve.Sermon | By Sofía Betancourt | September 1, 2018 | From SpiritTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Leadership, Ministry, Oppression, Reconciliation, RedemptionPage/Article
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This Lamentation is for two voices: one white, and one person of color/indigenous (POCI). Both voices invite people to repeat a refrain several times: white voices say, “So much has been lost,” and voices of color say, “Beloved, you must not be defensive when you hear our hurt.” The latter,...Responsive Reading | By Erika Hewitt, Rebekah Savage | October 15, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Direct Experience, Forgiveness, Grief, History, Humanism, Listening, Multiculturalism, Pain, Personal Stories, Race/Ethnicity, Reconciliation, Secular, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element
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When I was in middle school, I was taught that every person, to some extent, holds a set of prejudices that impact our perceptions of others. We were asked to think about what our prejudices might be, and how they might inform our relationships and our movement through the world....Homily | By DeReau K. Farrar | October 15, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Direct Experience, Integrity, Living Our Faith, Money, Multiculturalism, Pain, Personal Stories, Privilege, Race/Ethnicity, Reconciliation, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element
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I play this moment over and over again in my head: the day I heard of the Thomas Jefferson Ball, hosted by Unitarian Universalists in 1993. As a person of color, raised in a UU congregation, I felt a shiver down my spine as I learned something new and unsettling about the faith that I call home....Homily | By Rebekah Savage | October 15, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Commitment, Direct Experience, History, Integrity, Listening, Living Our Faith, Multiculturalism, Pain, Personal Stories, Race/Ethnicity, Reconciliation, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element
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We are the ones we have been waiting for.* We are not perfect, but we are perfectly fitted for this day. We are not without fault, but we can be honest to face our past as we chart a new future. We are the ones we have been waiting for....Benediction | By Kimberly Quinn Johnson | October 15, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Commitment, Healing, Hope, Integrity, Living Our Faith, Multiculturalism, Purpose, Race/Ethnicity, Reconciliation, Responsibility, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element
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Hush: Somebody’s calling your name— Can you hear it? Calling you to a past not quite forgotten, Calling us to a future not fully imagined? Hush, hush: Somebody’s calling our name. What shall we do? Note: this benediction is part of an entire Promise & Practice...Benediction | By Kimberly Quinn Johnson | October 15, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Arts & Music, Calling, Healing, Listening, Living Our Faith, Multiculturalism, Race/Ethnicity, Reconciliation, ResponsibilityWorship element
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Spirit of Life, Spirit of Love, We have gathered under the banner of a shared faith. We are born of a welcoming grace that extends and receives love; we are touched by the ways we have fallen short of who we strive to be; and we here we reborn — forged by a greater courage. Let us move from this...Benediction | By Rebekah Savage | October 15, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Commitment, Courage, Healing, Multiculturalism, Race/Ethnicity, Reconciliation, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element
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Diverse. Multicultural. Inclusive. Welcoming. If I made a list of every single Unitarian Universalist congregation I have served, visited or worshipped at, they would have a few things in common—including the use of these words. Perhaps on the front of the Order of Service?...Reading | By Carol Thomas Cissel | October 15, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Direct Experience, Health, Listening, Multiculturalism, Pain, Personal Stories, Race/Ethnicity, Reconciliation, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element