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UUA Faith Development Office

Join the UUA Common Read discussion on the book "Justice on Earth" and explore how faith can guide us in addressing environmental justice, race, and class issues. Discuss the meaning of nature in our lives, our connection to the interdependent web of existence, and the moral imperative to advocate for environmental justice.

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UUA Faith Development Office

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  1. Justice on Earth: People of Faith Workingat the Intersections of Race, Class,and the Environment 2018-19 UUA Common Read DISCUSSION GUIDEQUESTIONS AND PROMPTS UUA Faith Development Office

  2. SINGLE-SESSION VERSION UUA Faith Development Office

  3. COVENANT We each promise to: speak from our own experiences and perspectives. listen generously to the experiences and perspectives of others. actively resist making assumptions about one another. be mindful of “taking space and making space” to ensure everyone has opportunities to speak and to listen. expect and accept non-closure. respect the confidentiality of personal information and stories shared here. UUA Faith Development Office

  4. DISCUSSION AND SHARING:GROUNDED IN OUR FAITH What religious or spiritual practices are now, or have been, meaningful in your life that connect you to the living earth? How do they connect you to other people? UUA Faith Development Office

  5. 1st and 7th UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PRINCIPLES The inherent worth and dignity of every person 7. Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part UUA Faith Development Office

  6. THREE-SESSION VERSION Session 1:The Nature of the Problem UUA Faith Development Office

  7. COVENANT We each promise to: speak from our own experiences and perspectives. listen generously to the experiences and perspectives of others. actively resist making assumptions about one another. be mindful of “taking space and making space” to ensure everyone has opportunities to speak and to listen. expect and accept non-closure. respect the confidentiality of personal information and stories shared here. UUA Faith Development Office

  8. SHARING: OUR RELATIONSHIP TO NATURE What has “nature” meant in your life? What have been your experiences with the natural world? Has your relationship with nature been a solitaryor communal experience? What poems, music, visual art pieces, photographs, or religious texts about nature are meaningful to you? Do those texts or creative expressions separate humanity from nature, or includehuman beings in nature? UUA Faith Development Office

  9. THREE-SESSION VERSION Session 2:Finding Our Religious Ground UUA Faith Development Office

  10. CHALICE LIGHTING We light this chalice to celebrate Unitarian Universalism. This is the church of the open mind. This is the church of the helping hands. This is the church of the loving heart. Together we care for our earth and work for friendship and peace in our world. UUA Faith Development Office

  11. REFLECTION AND SHARING What religious or spiritual practices are now, or have been, meaningful in your life that connect you to the living earth? How do they connect you to other people? UUA Faith Development Office

  12. DISCUSSION: A MORAL IMPERATIVE How might introducing a Unitarian Universalist “language of morality” change how we perceive environmental causes? How can we address environmental causes as Unitarian Universalists? Justice on Earth suggests that, through a UU lens, we must see: There is no environmental justice without justice for people and communities of color and economic poverty, in our country and globally, who are most vulnerable to effects of climate change and environmental abuse. When we let our faith guide us, how are we more sharply accountable to those people most harmed by environmental damage? What might be a UU language of morality that can broaden and strengthen our advocacy for environmental justice? UUA Faith Development Office

  13. 1st and 7th UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PRINCIPLES The inherent worth and dignity of every person 7. Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part UUA Faith Development Office

  14. THREE-SESSION VERSION Session 3:Embracing Accountability and Becoming Partners UUA Faith Development Office

  15. WHY IT’S ABOUT RACE AND CLASS What first-hand experiences (or stories heard from others) came to mind as you read the book? Do you now understand some of those experiences and stories differently? If you were to write about the particular problems and issues of a place familiar to you, what would you write about? Where does environmental injustice intersect with human injustice in the story you will tell? UUA Faith Development Office

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