What do Alexander the Great, Sahak the Great, Charles the Great, Alfred the Great, Tamar the Great, Albert the Great, Akbar the Great, Catherine the Great, and Mongkut the Great have in common? Answer: they all founded or promoted educational institutions and fostered cross-cultural sharing of knowledge. Anyone who genuinely wishes to make America great … Continue reading Education is Great
Look everywhere around you at this moment and you will see – everywhere – things are in a precarious place of absolute destruction and change. Things we thought would be everlasting – like laws that protect the vulnerable and guarantees of human rights – are suddenly being questioned if not eliminated. We are in great … Continue reading The Essential, Ordinary Wisdom of Resurrection
Bryon Stevenson and other activists working to end oppression say that the most effective way to address any particular type of oppression – whether it is racial prejudice or bias against LGBTQIA persons, or immigrants – is through proximity. In other words, when we actually spend time with them. When we know their story, it … Continue reading Action Sunday
MPUUC recently took a courageous and caring first step into being an advocate for every person living without permanent housing in Fremont. Building on that, this service attempts to explore what our response to the housing crisis in this country would be if we treated the issue NOT from a perspective paternalism where we see … Continue reading When We Walk By
