Fred Hulting, Board President
The Board recently received a proposal for UUCM to make a public statement regarding Black Lives Matter, to be accompanied by a banner outside the church. Per our By-Laws, this statement must be approved by the congregation at a special meeting. Below I will discuss what will happen and how you can get involved.
Continue reading →This Friday, January 15, a handful of copies of Richard Rothstein’s The Color Of Law: A Forgotten History Of How Our Government Segregated America will be added to our Little Free Library (near the main church entrance), courtesy of Hennepin History Museum. Check out this link for more information on this book. Could be a great excuse to stop by the building and walk the grounds 🙂
If you missed the working session with Penny Petersen and would like to learn more about reviewing deeds for racial covenants, please click here for a video of our session. Or, you can go directly to the Mapping Prejudice website and watch their training video and practice deed review. This is important Racial Justice work that you can do from the comfort of home.
Monthly Online Meeting: Third Tuesday at 6:30 PM
The Racial Justice Group at UUCM is a subcommittee of the Social Justice Team. If you want to take action lifting up Racial Justice in our church community and the wider communities we live in, please join us! Please contact Kate Flom at kflom209@gmail.com for more information and to request the monthly Zoom meeting link.
This week’s message shares a shortened version of the five smooth stones of liberal religion. Rev. Lisa reflects on the continued need for moral and prophetic imagination in our nation today and the hope that our commitment to the practice of democracy will continue to build the world we dream. In addition, click here to view one of the UUA’s written resources on the five smooth stones.
Click on the picture above to view Rev. Lisa’s weekly video message.
