Month: January 2018

UU Mental Health Blog Created

Posted on by Suzanne Fast

A blog has been created to be a beacon for education about mental health in order to remove stereotypes and prejudice and to promote understanding and justice within Unitarian Universalism and beyond.  It is a joint project of the EqUUal Access Mental Health Caucus and the mental health community ministry of Rev. Barbara F. Meyers.  Access it and sign up to follow the blog at: UUMentalHealth.org/

UUA Justice Campaign gets a New Name: Side with Love!

Posted on by Suzanne Fast

The Unitarian Universalist Association has rolled out the name Side with Love for its flag-ship social justice campaign.  In replacing the name Standing on the Side of Love, the campaign acknowledged that our community has been calling attention to the exclusionary language of the name from the beginning.  At General Assembly 2017, Rev. Theresa Soto brought forward a Responsive Resolution asking for a re-imagining of the name (see post).  Staff from the UUA worked on the name change in consultation with Rev. Soto, leaders from EqUUal Access, and other stakeholders, which has led to today’s announcement.

The UUA’s announcement lists 3 opportunities from this re-imagining:

  • to firmly name what we are for and against. To recognize that as we seek to embody universalism we commit to resisting oppression.
  • [to contemplate] provocative spiritual questions including “When have I sided with love? When have I shirked siding with love?
  • to expand and deepen our understandings of the ways ableism shows up within the justice and spiritual communities we participate in, create and cultivate.

EqUUal Access encourages all Unitarian Universalists, UU communities, and UU organizations, to embrace these opportunities.

In addition to the resources provided by Side With Love in the announcement, you can find more about ableism under the Resources page on this website.

Let us know how you are encountering — and countering — ableism.  Join the conversation on Facebook!  Enter your sermon in our annual sermon contest! Submit your photo for our anti-ableism multi-media project!