Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Earth Justice

EARTHJUSTICE


DESIGN: LAURA EVONNE STEINMAN

This Sunday, September 21st is:

People's Climate March NYC Sept. 21, 2014


Questions to ponder with your family and friends:

1.  WHERE WILL UU BE ON 9.21.14? 
    AND WHAT WILL UU BE DOING FOR EARTH JUSTICE?

2. WHY DO WE NEED TO CARE ABOUT THE CLIMATE?

3. HOW DOES MARCHING AND SINGING AND PRAYING MAKE JUSTICE AND PEACE HAPPEN?


Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Let's make a Covenant (Promise) together!



WATCH this video about Covenant
hand chalice to print and color by: Laura Evonne Steinman
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image via http://heartofaleader.wordpress.com/
print and color
Questions to Ponder with your Family and Friends:

1. How do you live your UU Promise?

2. Why is it important for groups to make a covenant together?

3. Give an examples of what happens when a promise is broken. What can you do to fix it using your UU values?


Friday, September 5, 2014

UU Water Communion/Ceremony



In this season of changes in daily patterns for many, 
let the water bring us together in beloved community.

Questions to ponder with your family and friends:

1. Where did you COLLECT water from during the season of summer? (This might be actual water or a memory of water you have saved).

2. What ACT(s) of justice are you doing so that clean water is available to all on this interdependent web we share called home.

3. SING a song about WATER. 
Example: I've Got Peace Like A River http://youtu.be/N2R4D6qhaD8




Saturday, July 26, 2014

P is for Peace



“Peace can happen in 24 hours....

just like war can happen in 24 hours.” 

                                               ― Sari Nusseibeh  سري نسيبة

http://livingstonespilgrimage2012.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/welcome/

Questions to ponder with your family and friends:

1. When you are super angry at someone because they believe something different than you, what does your Unitarian Universalist faith call you to do?

2. If you were in charge of the military and could do anything so that peace surrounded all begins, what would your action plan be?

3. Life is like the ocean, going in and out with rhythm of the universe. Today what would you like to give to the ocean so it is washed away, and what would you like to save in a bottle as a memory?

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Sheva - Sallam (Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu) 

| السلام שָׁלוֹם | Israel & Palestine PEACE


Salaam (song)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Salaam (Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu) (Arabicسلام‎, Hebrew(סלאאם (עוד יבוא שלום עלינו‎ is a popular Israeli folk song by Mosh Ben Ari sung in Hebrew and Arabic.[1] The song, called "Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu" means "Peace Will Come Upon Us". It is an upbeat song and has become a theme tune to almost all youth movements in Israel and in the Jewish diaspora. A large chart hit in Israel several years ago, it has now come to symbolize a call for peace and end to the struggle in the Arab-Israeli conflict.[1]

Text of the bridge[edit]

#English translationTransliterationHebrew
1Again peace will come upon usOd yavo' shalom aleinuעוד יבוא שלום עלינו
2Again peace will come upon usOd yavo' shalom aleinuעוד יבוא שלום עלינו
3Again peace will come upon usOd yavo' shalom aleinuעוד יבוא שלום עלינו
4and on everyone.Ve'al kulam (x2)ועל כולם
 
5Salaam ('peace' in Arabic)Salaam (Salaam)סלאאם
6Among us and on all the worldAleinu ve'al kol ha olamעלינו ועל כל העולם
7Salaam, SalaamSalaam, Salaam (x2)סלאאם ,סלאאם







Friday, June 13, 2014

Got Milk?

Got Milk?

Harvey Milk

HOPE!
From: http://vimeo.com/8679445
Harvey Milk was the first openly-gay man to be elected to public office in the US in 1977. His most recognized speech, "You Cannot Live On Hope Alone," was given in 1978, shortly before he was assassinated. His words resonate particularly today as Californians debate a resolution to ban gay marriage.
To learn more about Harvey Milk, check out causecast.org/member/harvey-milk
And to learn about more causes, check out causecast.org
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"Somewhere in Des Moines or San Antonio there is a young gay person who all the sudden realizes that he or she is gay; knows that if their parents find out they will be tossed out of the house, their classmates will taunt the child, and the Anita Bryant's and John Briggs' are doing their part on TV. And that child has several options: staying in the closet, and suicide. And then one day that child might open the paper that says "Homosexual elected in San Francisco" and there are two new options: the option is to go to California, or stay in San Antonio and fight. Two days after I was elected I got a phone call and the voice was quite young. It was from Altoona, Pennsylvania. And the person said "Thanks". And you've got to elect gay people, so that thousand upon thousands like that child know that there is hope for a better world; there is hope for a better tomorrow. Without hope, not only gays, but those who are blacks, the Asians, the disabled, the seniors, the us's: without hope the us's give up. I know that you can't live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you, and you, and you, and you have got to give them hope."
-Harvey Milk, 1978

Questions to Ponder with your family and friends:
1. What father figures in your life give you HOPE?

2. Why do some people not like that Harvey Milk is on a US postage stamp? What do you think?

3. Where are you working for HOPE and LOVE for all?
Why?

Marty Forth is a Canadian living on the Upper West Side with his husband, Patrick, and their 3-year-old son, Grayson. He is a licensed social worker who specializes in youth, teens and families and has worked for the YMCA for more than 15 years.
He tweets at @marty4th. He wrote Our Son has TWO Dads for our blog.
Photo: Marty Forth and family.

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Friendly Flowers

Friendly Flowers





Questions to Ponder with your family and friends:

1. Where did the Unitarian Flower Communion ritual begin?

2. What happens during a Flower Communion?

3. Why do we "share" and "give" with our friends and family?

Print and add you own flowers with your friends!