Category: GROW

But Have You Cried Together?

July 21, 2017 | Heather Vickery | General Assembly, GROW, GROWRJTC, Racial Justice, Young Adult
Mara Iverson is a young adult from the Unitarian Church of Montpelier, VT who recently participated in UUCSJ and the UUA’s GROW Racial Justice 2017 in New Orleans. Mara is a member of Central Vermont SURJ (Standing Up for Racial Justice) and is the co-chair of the diversity and inclusion working group on the university […]

Shift With Us at Grow Racial Justice

March 21, 2017 | Heather Vickery | GROW, Racial Justice, Young Adult
by Chris Casuccio “White supremacy is an overwhelming crisis for humanity, one that is making it impossible for any human to evolve in right relationship with the planet and the species. It has not, and will not, be resolved merely by Black and other non-white people fighting for a change – it must be unlearned, […]

Losing Our Chains

December 24, 2016 | Heather Vickery | GROW, GROWRJTC, Racial Justice, Young Adult
Losing Our Chains has been reposted with permission from Blue Boat. You can find the original posting here. Aisha Ansano is a candidate for Unitarian Universalist ministry, and serves as a ministerial intern at First Church in Boston, MA. Aisha is passionate about food as ministry, singing, and ways of building community. Aisha participated in this summer’s Thrive Young Adult leadership school for Unitarian Universalistyoung adults of […]

Creating Space to Grow Racial Justice

September 1, 2016 | Deva Jones | General Assembly, GROW, Pastoral, Racial Justice, Young Adult
It had happened again. Another black man had been shot dead by police, another life lost to the brutality of racism, another painful reminder of the urgency of the Movement for Black Lives. News of Philando Castile’s death in Minnesota came less than a day after the police shot Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge. They […]

Whiteness and Apocalypse

September 25, 2015 | Deva Jones | Environmental Justice, GROW, Young Adult
This post was written by Amelia Diehl and originally posted on Blue Boat. I am so grateful to have been able to attend the Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice‘s Grounded and Resilient Organizer’s Workshop Climate Justice Training in Chicago, IL and feel connected again to a community and to a movement. I think I might have learned more about […]