'justice' Tagged Posts

'justice' Tagged Posts

Gentle. Angry.

Lately, one of the hymns we sing in Unitarian Universalist services has been going through my head: “We are a Gentle, Angry People.” (Editor’s note — Here’s a YouTube video of the hymn being sung by its composer, Holly Near, at the 2004 March for Women’s Lives) The lyric from which the title is drawn reminds us to always confront…

Sanctuary Churches

In a Washington Post op-ed piece, journalist Linda Hirshman suggests that “To Resist a Trump Presidency, ask: ‘What Would the Abolitionists Do?’” Let’s examine a little piece of Unitarian history that helps us answer that question.