Guest panelists and long time collaborators, Jennica Davis-Hockett and Joy Berry, meet with Ember to discuss why Unitarian Universalists are embracing a whole church religious education approach and are deepening community connections across generations through a new, amazing resource called Deeper Joy.

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Episode 9 of JUUst Breathe explores the central tenet of all our Shared Values…LOVE - with fabulous panelists Avery Miller Fabregas and Rev Dr. Sofia Betancourt, the President of the UUA!  

We are really excited to conclude this season of JUUst Breathe with a bang!

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Interdependence is a condition of our very being, whether or not we notice it.   How we choose to engage it has an impact on the world and also on our congregational systems.  What are some ways we’re really challenging ourselves in the spirit of building Beloved Community, to be truly radically welcoming, and to foster relationships beyond our congregational walls?  

Give this episode a listen to find out what our amazing panelists - religious educator Jil Novenski and Rev Jim Lewis had to say about all this.

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We are each other’s harvest:

We are each other’s business:

We are each other’s magnitude and bond.

-- Gwendolyn Brooks

We declare that every person has the right to flourish with inherent dignity and worthiness, and we covenant to use our time, wisdom, attention, and money to build and sustain fully accessible and inclusive communities.  Our esteemed guests ponder what Unitarian Universalism might become if we looked beyond traditional definitions and saw our very communities as an endowment for a flourishing religious future.

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Pertinent links:  

https://www.uua.org/lifespan/re-sources/threshold-conversations/whole-church/whole-re-panel

https://www.blessedbeebyhp.com

https://sidewithlove.org/actioncenter

Cornel West said that "Justice is what love looks like in public."  

Our panelists, Lisa Garcia Sampson and Antoinette Scully - two of our UU state action network leaders, discuss what we can do to continue to build Beloved Community during these very trying and challenging times times, while also dismantling the oppressive systems that keep all of us from being truly free.

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Coalition of UU State Action Networks: 

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This episode features a conversation with panelists Rev Kimberly Quinn Johnson and Rev Joanna Fontaine Crawford focusing on the importance of missionalism as an approach in our efforts to be generous, with time, talent, and the treasure of our transcendent faith. 

Don’t miss this lively conversation with our fabulous hosts.

Resources:
Unitarian Universalism and Missionalism - Rev Joanna Fontaine Crawford asks how Unitarian Universalist theology should respond to and intersect with the Missional Christian movement.
 
MISSIONALISM and RE - Learn about one approach here (includes a basic definition of missionalism drawn from the video above).

Wendell Berry’s poems about generosity (toward the present and the future)
There Is No Going Back https://www.reckonings.net/reckonings/2012/11/no-going-back-wendell-berry.html
For the Future 

https://spiritoftrees.org/poetry/for-the-future

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This episode, we are joined by Rev Jonipher Kwong and longtime UUA youth and emerging adult staffer Jennica Davis-Hockett to examine transformation in our faith.  How are we formed in this faith by transforming ourselves and by being change agents our wider world?  What are we willing to both embrace and let go of in pursuit of transcendence?  Our panel will have answers. 

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Other pertinent links 
Joanna Macy - Active Hope

Teaching our Children to Love a Dying and Transforming World  

We sit down with religious educators Kat Good and Alessandra Nysether-Santos to dive into our new shared values, starting with pluralism - all about the DEI, and not ashamed to admit it!

Trolls World Tour: ​​ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLKzCrT5Qsw

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-things-to-do-if-trump-wins/ 

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Panelists Dr Glen Thomas Rideout, Nico Van Ostrand, and Rev Kayla Parker discuss with our hosts the wonders of a shared ministry approach in congregational life.  What does it take?  What are the benefits?  What obstacles may need addressing?  Come find out more from these fabulous spiritual leaders in our movement!


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Hosts Ember Kelley and Joy Berry discuss the “Why’s” of a Whole Church Approach to RE (Religious Exploration).  Hot off the presses and fresh from General Assembly’s vote to accept Article II.  Our shared values find a new home in a multigenerational approach to ministry. 

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