A Challenging Time to Be Us
We are Unitarian Universalists, guided by love and reason, aiming for peace and happiness – for all.
What a challenging time to be us. To be UUs.
Are you, like me, wondering how we can:
- Know enough to achieve deep understanding and considered awareness?
- Fulfill our role in our current environment of shocking abuses?
- Strategize effectively in this complex world full of distractions
- Find the places and times to speak and act, support and help?
- Live from our own
I believe we need to research widely and dig deeply into ourselves to avoid knee-jerk responses, discriminate, and show up in meaningful ways in critical situations.
To rise to this challenge, I suggest we follow reliable organizations that share our moral compass. Two of the first I consider are the UUSC and the ACLU.
The UUSC — our UU Service Committee – was founded in 1940 to save people from the Nazi’s. Now our service committee is at work on our behalf around the world and at home. We can learn from their research, consider their actions, support, and leverage their strategies locally. They have my attention now.
The ACLU has been protecting our precious civil liberties in deep and challenging ways since 1920. And we have an active ACLU chapter here.
Please see what is coming up over the next two weeks for us to join — the 3rd gathering at our own church!
“Inequality by Design: Race, Rights, and Justice Systems,” a conversation with ACLU National President Deborah Archer.
Tuesday, January 13th 5-7 pm @ Richardson School of Law, UH at the University of Hawai’i. 2515 Dole St.
Registration required as space is limited – bit.ly/acluarchertalk
“Police Accountability in Hawai’i: Building True and Meaningful Community Safety”
Thursday, January 15, 5:30 – 7:pm @ Central Union Church, Parish Hall, 1660 S. Beretania St.
Registration bit.ly/
(Training) “Join the Resistance: How to Push Back Against Authoritarianism”
Tuesday, January 20, 5 – 7pm, First Unitarian Church of Honolulu, 2500 Pali Highway HERE!!!
Registration: bit.ly/
This Sunday, January 11th
I hope you will join us this Sunday for Dan Carpenter’s “Traveling- The Journey”!
I look forward to hearing from our beloved Dan, who keeps us strong in both building and spirit!
January 18th – Special Visitors!
We will have Éva Patkó, an expert in the Theater of Empowerment, sharing a Transylvanian view.
Her husband, Zsolt Láng, will meet with interested readers and thinkers to discuss one of his prize-winning short stories.
Email me at minister@unitariansofHI.org to receive a PDF. Please join us for the service and the reading/thinking group afterward.
Aloha, Rev. Deborah
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