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Latest Updates

• Toolkit: UUs Who Show Up for UUs Who Show Up: Guidelines for Arrestee / Defendant Support

• Small Group Discussion Guide: Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment

• Webinar: Combating Fascisms Without & Within: An Organized UU Response

• Webinar: Safety Beyond Policing - Lessons from Minneapolis

Stop Cop City

Read the 2023 Action of Immediate Witness (AIW) Stop Cop City

Not Just Stop Cop City Webinar Series

• Session One: The Environment

• Session Two: Abolition

• Session Three: Police Foundations & Policing

Upcoming Events

• Spiritual Practices for Challenging Moments—Resources for uncomfortable/spiritually challenging moments, curated by Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen, with practices, music, and reflections.

• Spiritual Practices & Social Justice—Learn to be an effective agent of change and transformation by practicing regular connection with your core principles and beliefs. Drawn from the UU College of Social Justice's service trip study guide.

• Braver/Wiser—Sign up for weekly messages of courage and compassion, complete with a timely prayer for the week ahead. Hear from the contributors about what helps them when the hurt of the world overwhelms, lifting up the sacred in everyday life.

• Risk, Courage and Discernment: Spiritual Preparation—Resource to help individuals and congregations interested in effective justice actions, grounded in collective liberation, accountable partnership, and leadership of those most impacted.

• Minns Lectures, Spring 2024: “Praying for Abolition” by Rev. Jason Lydon with response from Prof. Vincent Lloyd

Readings & Prayers

These collections of quotes, readings, prayers and more are focused on people in need of sanctuary. Share them in worshipful ways, online and in person.

• Prayer for When You Reach Out to a Potential Partner

• Prayer for When You Want to Do a Spiritual Thing But Are Really Nervous

• Prayer for When You Truly Do Something Amazing

• Prayer for Resilience of Love's Resistance

• A Song For Resisting the Criminalization of People Who Migrate

Other sources of worship materials:

• Compassion for Refugees collection (WorshipWeb)

• Black Lives Matter collection (WorshipWeb)

• Worship materials on immigration

Small Group Ministry

• Love Resists Guide for a Deeper Resistance—Four sessions for small group study or workshops

• A Call to Faith in Turbulent Times by Rev. Marta Valentín

• Small Group Ministry White Supremacy Teach-In, curated by Rev. Annie Gonzalez-Milliken

• Resistance Circles

• Small Group Social Change Ministry *PDF) by Rev. Kierstin Homblette Allen and Rev. Kelly Dignan