Category: Religious Professionals

Defend the Human Rights of Migrants: Root Causes

October 11, 2019 | Deva Jones | El Salvador, Immigration, Religious Professionals

At a time of deepening crisis for immigrants and asylum seekers, the UU College of Social Justice has organized an immersion experience with Cristosal specifically for religious professionals and lay leaders. This journey will help you deepen your understanding of the migration crisis and will support your justice ministry with theological reflection among colleagues. Our Root […]

Join Us To Flood The Desert!

June 29, 2018 | Heather Vickery | Immigration, Religious Professionals, Sanctuary and Solidarity

JOIN US TO FLOOD THE DESERT! DIRECT ACTION IN ARIZONA, AUGUST 3-6, 2018 Leaders from the Unitarian Universalist Association, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee and the Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice will be Flooding the Desert with Faith in August. Join Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray (President of the UUA), Rev. Mary Katherine Morn (President of […]

Lenten Reflection, Honduras

February 21, 2018 | Heather Vickery | Pastoral, Religious Professionals, Sanctuary and Solidarity

Praying the “stations of the cross” is a longstanding Lenten tradition all over the Christian world, during which believers are reminded of the last moments Jesus lived through as he carried his own cross to the crucifixion. Throughout Latin America, the Way of the Cross, or Via Crucis, is often an elaborate procession, during which […]

Letter From Susan Frederick-Gray to Religious Professionals

February 1, 2018 | Heather Vickery | Immigration, Religious Professionals, Sanctuary and Solidarity

Dear Colleagues, As we enter a new year, we are more determined than ever to mobilize our UU communities around the core justice values that make our faith so relevant to the current political moment. Among these core values is our commitment to the worth and dignity of each person, which leads us to resist […]

Carlos and the Guardians

January 31, 2018 | Heather Vickery | Environmental Justice, Nicaragua, Religious Professionals

Rev. Paul Langston-Daley is the Senior Program Leader for Justice Building at UUSC. In November 2016, he travelled to Nicaragua on UUCSJ’s Guardians of the River: Climate Justice for Theologians journey specifically for religious professionals (ministers, seminarians and religious educators). It had already been a difficult year, and then November came and with it, the election […]

Answering the Call for Solidarity and Action in Honduras

January 24, 2018 | Heather Vickery | Immigration, Pastoral, Religious Professionals, Sanctuary and Solidarity

In early January I received an email that began with these words: We are writing you on behalf of Padre Melo, the Jesuit priest who has accompanied the Honduran people for more than 20 years. He is appealing to the international community for an emergency delegation: “We need you to organize people who will accompany […]

UUCSJ By The Numbers

October 27, 2017 | Heather Vickery | Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, First Nations, Florida, General Assembly, Haiti, Immigration, India, Internship, Nicaragua, Racial Justice, RAICES, Religious Professionals, Sanctuary and Solidarity, Volunteering, West Virginia, Young Adult, Youth

The UU College of Social Justice was jointly founded in the summer of 2012 by the UUA and UUSC, so this year we are celebrating a big anniversary. We are grateful for all of our alumni and supporters who have made our work possible! In honor of of all of you and our anniversary, here […]

It All Makes A Difference

June 7, 2017 | Heather Vickery | Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Nicaragua, Religious Professionals

Guardians of the River: Climate Justice for Theologians 2016 group Jacquline Brett is a recent graduate of Meadville Lombard’s Masters of Divinity program (MDiv) and will be at Meadville for another year for the Master of Arts in Leadership Studies (MALS) program. She has participated in UUCSJ’s 2015 Religious Professionals Journey to the Border and […]

We Keep Coming Back

June 5, 2017 | Heather Vickery | Congregational Trip, Immigration, Religious Professionals, Sanctuary and Solidarity

Rev. Beth Banks is the Senior Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis. She journeyed with other UU Religious Professionals to the Arizona-Mexico border in 2014. Below is her reflection of how that journey helped her energize her congregation around immigration justice. 2014 Religious Professionals Border Witness Participants In November of 2014, the College […]

Buena suerte to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Lake Chapala and vaya bien

January 31, 2017 | Heather Vickery | Pastoral, Religious Professionals

Reverend Gary Kowalski, Minister, Unitarian Congregation of Taos, NM embarked on a sabbatical leave to Lake Chapala, Mexico with the help of a UUCSJ sabbatical grant. Thirty miles south of Guadalajara, the small town of Ajijic rests on the northern shore of Mexico’s largest body of fresh water, Lake Chapala. Flanked by high mountains, pelicans […]