Author: Deva Jones

The Ocean Refuses No River

September 25, 2012 | Deva Jones | Pastoral
The following post was written by Deanna Vandiver, executive director of the Center for Ethical Living and Social Justice Renewal in New Orleans, La. With every encounter, discernment emerges.” —Brian Swimme Joy and grief are intimately bound together for those who live on the margins. The people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast know […]

What Makes You Come Alive?

August 7, 2012 | Deva Jones | Youth
Elias Estabrook was a recent grassroots mobilization intern at the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) whose work focused on engaging youth. Here he reflects on the National Youth Justice Summit, a UU College of Social Justice program that he attended in the final week of his internship. Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask […]

Lessons of the Movement

August 2, 2012 | Deva Jones | Racial Justice
Hope Johnson, a UUCSJ trip leader for the Civil Rights Journey, is the minister of the UU Congregation of Central Nassau in Garden City, N.Y. In the following post, she traces the path of the group — and the lessons they learned — as they explored the history of the civil-rights movement. While en route […]

I Am a Woman, Hear Me Sing a Freedom Song

July 27, 2012 | Deva Jones | Racial Justice
The following blog post was written by Celeste Allen, a youth participant on the 2012 Civil Rights Journey who hails from Scottsdale, Ariz. On the first real work day of the Civil Rights Journey, the amazing George Friday, national organizer for the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, led a workshop on race. We talked about […]

Questions We Must Ask

July 27, 2012 | Deva Jones | Racial Justice
The following post was written by Rowan Van Ness, a UUCSJ trip leader currently on the 2012 Civil Rights Journey. When we visited Selma and marched silently across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought about the civil-rights marchers who were brutally beaten there on Bloody Sunday. I thought about the ministers who gathered there from […]

We Are Not Alone

July 27, 2012 | Deva Jones | Racial Justice
The following post was written by Tracey Haines, a participant on the 2012 Civil Rights Journey.   “We are not alone. We are not alone. We are not alone today.” Those were the words displayed on the movie screen at the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail’s Lowndes Interpretive Center. They were sung as a […]

Starting the Journey

July 24, 2012 | Deva Jones | Racial Justice
By Sam Jones, Associate for Marketing and Enrollment Last spring, I left a job in technology retail to begin working in the newly formed UU College of Social Justice (UUCSJ). After four years of selling phones and laptops, I wanted to return to justice work. That decision to join UUSC is what brought me here, […]

Making a Splash at General Assembly

July 17, 2012 | Deva Jones | General Assembly
The UU College of Social Justice (UUCSJ) had an amazing launch at the UUA’s Justice General Assembly (GA) in Phoenix last month! I was so happy to witness the warm welcome we received and the excited buzz about what UUCSJ is up to. We had a busy GA, with several gatherings highlighting the work of UUCSJ. […]