Full Moon Gathering

Tuesday, January 23, 2024/ 7pm ET/ 6pm CT/ 5pm MT/ 4pm PT

Join UU Ministry for Earth on the Full Moon so we may all find time to ground, recenter, and imagine what is possible in a world in need of repair. There will be time for reflection and small group sharing.

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Zoom link is always the same: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3248332840?pwd=SXVScW1ESzJILy9PMWlkTXVkTnpjZz09

Our Partners at Side with Love offer a Webinar Series on Clean Energy as a Human Right 

Join the Energy Democracy Project, Cleveland Owns (OH), People Power Solar (CA), and POWER Interfaith (PA) for Reimagining with Energy Democracy on January 25 at 4PT - 5MT - 6CT - 7ET.  RSVP today! For the last in our webinar series on Clean Energy as a Human Right, we invite you to explore the power of Energy Democracy and the ways our congregations can reimagine energy for our communities. By reimagining how we organize our lives toward new systems that support the health and wellbeing of our communities and ecosystems, Energy Democracy advances empowerment and liberation for frontline communities.

In our Clean Energy as a Human Right political education series, we’ve explored the ways congregations can amplify federal clean energy funding to embrace a visionary approaches to clean energy and create hubs of climate resilience for our communities.  We also paused to reflect during the UU Ministry for Earth Winter Solstice Celebration featuring the Energy Democracy Project. to join us for the final webinar in the series, Reimagine with Energy Democracy features the Energy Democracy Project and frontline organizers advancing energy democracy in their communities.

From our Partners UUs for a Just Economic Community

The Greatest Transformation in Human History with Dr. Sailesh Rao - February 8,5 PM Pacific| 6 PM Mountain| 7 PM Central|  8 PM Eastern 

More info and registration link here

Spring for change is our slate of events for the 2024 Spring season. More information on each event below. ⬇️

World Water Day: Water is Life

March 21, 2024. 7:00 pm ET |6:00 CT| 5:00 MT| 4:00 PT / 90 minutes long

World Water Day celebrates water and raises awareness that 2.2 billion people live without access to safe water. We are honored to welcome Rev. Dr. Clyde Grubbs and Rev. Karen Van Fossan into a conversation on this important and sacred day. They are defenders and protectors of water; two spiritual leaders in our UU movement who will help us build a heart-centered approach to a right relationship with Mother Earth and her waters.

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Rev. Dr. Clyde Grubbs is a Unitarian Universalist minister who served congregations in Indiana, Quebec, Massachusetts, Texas, Florida and California. He honors his Native American heritage (Texas Cherokee) which informs his spiritual understanding and practice, and his anti-racist and anti-oppressive commitment  He has worked for peace, justice and equality since he was in the Unitarian Universalist youth movement, Liberal Religious Youth.

Rev. Karen is also a Unitarian Universalist minister and author of A Fire at the Center: Solidarity, Whiteness, and Becoming a Water Protector. She is an abolitionist, licensed professional counselor, and former defendant in the Line 3 pipeline resistance. She is pursuing a Doctorate of Ministry specializing in abolition through Pacific School of Religion. Clyde is on her dissertation advisory committee. Karen lives in Fargo, North Dakota, on the traditional lands of Anishinaabe, Lakota/Dakota, and many Indigenous peoples.

Full Moon and Earth Day Gathering

April 23, 2024. 7-8 pm ET| 6-7pm CT| 5-6 pm MT| 4-5 pm PT.  
Join UU Ministry for Earth on the Full Moon closest to Earth Day so we may all find time to ground, recenter, and imagine what is possible for Earth. There will be time for reflection and small group sharing.

Zoom link is always the same:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3248332840?pwd=SXVScW1ESzJILy9PMWlkTXVkTnpjZz09

Register here so we can remind you

Earth Day Worship Materials for your congregation will be available February 1, 2024. They will be an expanded edition of our Monthly Musings and include spiritual resources for climate grief and distress. Sign up here to receive them.

Movement Training for Young Adults 

Saturdays in April!

UU Young Adults for Climate Justice will offer Movement Training Saturdays in April. UUYACJ is hosting its third annual movement training workshop series! This workshop series seeks to support, resource, and empower young adults to act with courageous love. It offers organizing skills, collective knowledge, and sustainable care practices. It is open to all young adults (ages 18-35). These workshops will be happening every Saturday in April on Zoom. Each session will last for 90 minutes. Justice work asks so much of organizers, and UUYACJ is grateful that we get to offer these free workshops as a gift in return. You can attend just one, or all of them!

Specific times and registration link coming soon.

 

International Day of Biodiversity

7:00 pm ET/ 6:00 pm CT/ 5:00 pm MT/ 4:00 pm PT
Join UU Ministry for Earth for poetry, song and story to honor International Day for Biological Diversity with Dr. Lyla June Johnston 

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Dr. Lyla June Johnston (aka Lyla June) is an Indigenous musician, author, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal, collective, and ecological healing. She blends her study of Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives and solutions. Her doctoral research focused on the ways in which pre-colonial Indigenous Nations shaped large regions of Turtle Island (aka the Americas) to produce abundant food systems for humans and non-humans.

We will collect donations, half of which will go to National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center. https://www.niwrc.org/

Your congregation or organization can sponsor the event. Email daniellawlor@uumfe.org. 

Share the Plate with UU Ministry for Earth

Many Unitarian Universalist congregations have a practice of sharing their Sunday offering with community organizations, causes and groups. The logistics vary, but the core practice is to give part of the community offering to a cause beyond the immediate congregation that reflects our values and aspirations. Would you consider sharing the plate for Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth (UUMFE) during this sacred Spring for Change? 

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The UU Ministry for Earth is seeking new leaders for our Board! Will one of our new Board members be YOU?

If you have a deep and embodied commitment to uplifting the need to face and adapt to the climate crisis, counter environmental injustice, and support the flourishing of all life. If you feel drawn to support and contribute to the many offerings of the UU Ministry for Earth (www.uumfe.org), please reach out to the UUMFE Nominations Committee to share your strengths and desire to be part of our team. We are looking to develop a dynamic, multicultural, multigenerational anti-oppressive Board, inclusive of people of color, trans and gender-nonconforming people, young people, people with disabilities, people living in poverty, and/or frontline communities; people who self-identify with such identity are especially welcome to apply. Please contact SearchTeam@UUMFE.org to submit your resume and letter of interest.

UUMFE Staff Member Zoë Johnston will be Preaching, Sunday, January 14th at 11am ET at First Church Boston

"Dreaming the Future Into Being" : Imagination is a political practice. It is an active way that we reflect on the reality of the world and name what needs to change. We imagine new ways of being in relationship to each other and to Earth. In doing so, we slowly begin to shape its form and identify the pathway to draw it ever closer. On this Martin Luther King Day weekend, join us in our collective dreaming about the future.  Youtube Live: https://www.youtube.com/@firstchurchboston/streams 

 

Be Wary of Scams Targeting Faith Community Members!

Many Unitarian Universalist congregations and faith communities have been receiving email or text scams- including ourselves. Please be aware that no member of UU Ministry for Earth’s staff or clergy will text or email to ask you to purchase anything for them as a personal favor (ex. to purchase gift cards) or ask for your banking information.

If you receive an email, text message, or other method of communication from someone posing as a member of our clergy or staff that asks you for gift cards, banking details, or to purchase something for them urgently, it is a scam. Please contact our team directly at office@uumfe.org if you have any doubt or question about a message. 

Particularly during this New Year, please be aware. If you receive a false message, you are able to report a phishing scam to your messaging or email service, please do. You can report these phishing attempts to the Federal Trade Commission.