🌏 UU Ministry for Earth 🌍 Pre-work for this month’s Community Read (May 26)

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It’s time to celebrate!

UU Ministry for Earth’s first annual Community Read, What If We Get It Right: Visions of Climate Futures by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, is drawing to a close. If you’ve joined us at any point along the way, we hope you’ll attend next Tuesday, May 26th, for our final celebration!

How to prepare for our final session and closing celebration on May 26th:

Read the final section of WIWGIR: Transformation (p 397-428)
- “A Note on Hope”
- “An Ocean of Answers” with Bren Smith
- “To Be of Use” by Marge Piercy
- “Climate Oath” with Oana Stǎescu
- “The Joyous Work”
- “Away from the Brink”

Consider these questions, from the WIWGIR Reading Guide:
- What is your take on hope in the context of climate change?
- Having read the whole book, can you describe what “getting it right,” or elements of it, would be like for you?
- Where/how can you imagine yourself as a part of getting it right on climate?
- How are you drawn to encourage others to find their roles in climate action?
Print a copy of the Climate Action Venn Diagram:
- We will revisit this Climate Action Venn Diagram from our very first session.
Prepare to celebrate!
- Arrange your space comfortably and free from distractions. Maybe that means steeping a cup of tea, having a blanket in your lap, or ensuring that your physical needs are tended to prior to our gathering.
- Bring a little treat to enjoy, to liven the mood.
- Reflect on the arc of your year – what has uplifted you about this year’s Community Read? What would you like to experience again? What would you change if you could? Help us dream about the future Community Read, coming up in the fall of 2026!

We look forward to our final celebration next Tuesday, May 26th!

Plan to arrive at 7:40 ET/6:40 CT/5:40 MT/4:40 PT, to enjoy gathering music from the What if We Get it Right? Anti-Apocalypse Mixtape (Spotify | Apple).

Until then,

Rev. Lauren Levwood, Acting Director, UUMFE

Dr. Anne-Marie McCartan, Board Member, UUMFE

Cheyenne Herlandstein, Resident Educator, UUMFE

Chelsea McCoy, Climate Justice Movement Chaplain Intern, UUMFE

Click here to view this month’s prep work on the UUMFE blog.

UU Ministry for Earth’s Community Read is free of charge. As a small non-profit organization, UUMFE relies on donors like you to sustain our mission. If this offering means something to you, we invite you to offer a gift of reciprocity. Recurring gifts help the most, so we can plan for our future. Sharing the Plate is another wonderful way to share UUMFE’s vision with your UU congregation! Click Here to Give Now.

Visit UU Ministry for Earth online at uumfe.org. Please support our work.

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