a copy-paste of the closing paragraph from the file in the document reader below:
Third, Organize. Build coalitions using your new vocabulary and your new commitment to empathize and work with other UU congregations and other liberal religious groups who are also tired of race-talk separated from talk about class issues. I believe that we have the power to transform America because of who we are: We are Middle-America. Transform this group and you transform the country because we are the majority. All we need is the moral courage to practice what we preach. And we will generate this moral courage through love.
at the root of “race talk [and] class issues” and just about everything
else that plagues humanity and the planet are the two inseparables,
hierarchy and power*
it is up to each and all of us to confront hierarchies – structures of power – “with justice, compassion and the transforming power of love”
see source, archived*
it is up to each and all of us to confront hierarchies – structures of power – “with justice, compassion and the transforming power of love”
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*a link; see a note on notes and links and a disclaimer; see also the about post and the archives of miscellany, notrehta, or fw posts
“After months of internal deliberation and offering online glimpses of their project, the team chosen to suggest revisions to the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Article II – the defining statements of the faith’s values, inspirations, and reasons for being – brought its work to the 2022 General Assembly in June.…
“The commission faces a January 2023 deadline to present recommendations to the UUA Board of Trustees. In June 2023, the General Assembly is expected to vote on proposed Article II changes. If a simple majority of delegates votes the proposal down, the process ends there. If a majority approves the proposal, it will go before the GA again in 2024 for a final vote. To be adopted, the final proposed changes will need a two-thirds majority vote.…
“Some 200 UU congregations and organizations, nearly a fifth of the worldwide total, have already adopted an Eighth Principle.”
source: UU World, July 2022*
2022-10-06 …
added introductory matter above the document reader
article ii site:uua.org (!?)
see also article about Article II, archived*
“all institutions are demonic, including the church” / Chris Hedges (!?)
Words and deeds of prophetic people which challenge us to confrontpowers and structures of evil structures of power and evil with justice, compassion and the transforming power of love (!?)
article ii site:uua.org (!?)
see also article about Article II, archived*
“all institutions are demonic, including the church” / Chris Hedges (!?)
Words and deeds of prophetic people which challenge us to confront