In 2020, one of the initial intentions of the Mission Peak ARO Team (Anti-Racism, Anti-Oppression) was to offer a land acknowledgement at the beginning of our worship services. The purpose of Land Acknowledgments is to humbly recognize the impact that our settler-colonialist history has had on the people and the land. When we began the … Continue reading A Land In Search of Its Ancestors
Our second Action Sunday at Mission Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation will focus around ways we are intentionally and purposefully working for Dr. King’s dream of America become a reality. We will come together to understand our overarching purpose and then exercise our heads, hearts and hands in the same direction to help encourage the TriCities … Continue reading In Service of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream ACTION SUNDAY
Faithful Fools was founded in 1998 by Kay Jorgensen, a Unitarian Universalist minister and Carmen Barsody, a Franciscan from Little Falls, MN. The two of them were inspired to create a community of people from all walks of life to work together for deep personal change in the service of deep social change. The Zoom … Continue reading Faithful Fools: To Coddiwomple
Within and throughout our lives, we invite, adopt and assume a number of qualities to help us express what is going on inside us. But many of these qualities have a life of their own. Writer, artist and workshop leader, J. Ruth Gendler described these qualities in a landmark book called, “The Book of Qualities. … Continue reading The Book of Qualities II
