Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church - Unitarian Universalist

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September 19

Social Action Collection - Hospitality as Radical Practice

Rev. Dr. Janet E. Newman

How do we practice hospitality? A book titled Radical Hospitality inspires Rev. Dr. Newman to talk with you about the meaning and implications of what it means to be hospitable. Also, a brief ceremony of installation of the Interim

Ministry will help us make our relationship “official.”

TJ District’s 2010 Anti-Racism Conference:

Building the World We Want: From Just Us to Justice

October 8-10

First UU Church of Richmond

On Sunday morning, do you see the multicultural congregation you have imagined?

Are you passionate about building a world with equality and opportunity for all people?

Then join fellow UUs and other justice-minded people of faith at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Richmond on Friday through Sunday, October 8-10, for Building the World We Want: From Just Us to Justice, the TJ District’s 2010 Anti-Racism Conference.

The early registration deadline is Thursday, September 15. After that date, the registration fee increases from $55 to $70. Registration closes the Friday prior to the conference, October 1.

 Program activities will spark reflection and discussion about the connections between race and place in regard to inequality and racism, and will equip participants with practical strategies for developing diverse, multicultural congregations and for moving their communities from being ones with equality and opportunity for some to ones with opportunity and equality for all.

 Professor john a. powell, an internationally recognized authority in civil rights, civil liberties, and issues relating to race, ethnicity, poverty and the law, will deliver the keynote address: Race, Place, & Opportunity: The Role of Structures in (Re)Producing Inequality. Presenters include Dr. Andrea Simpson (University of Richmond), Dr. John V. Moeser (Bonner Center for Civic Engagement), Rev. Nan White (UU Fellowship of Beaufort), Jim Key (TJ District President), Dr. Leon Spencer (co-author, The Arc of the Universe is Long), Paula Cole Jones (anti-racism consultant), Dr. Mark Hicks (author of the Building the World We Dream About curriculum), Annette Marquis (TJ District Executive), and Bob Gross (former Journey Toward Wholeness committee member).

 Please Register in Advance Online: www.tjdistrict.org/newsevents/antiracismconference. Home hospitality and childcare are only available to conference participants who register in advance.

Rev. Dr. Janet Newman and Leia Durland-Jones, DRE

Celebrate the beginning of our church school year in this colorful, lighthearted and joyful service of welcome.

Your Green Sanctuary Task Force has had a busy summer.  Now you can learn more and join us in this major eco-justice movement.  On our new web page, you can read blogs and view YouTube videos of our June experience of bearing witness to Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining (MTR) in West Virginia.  Also to view excerpts from Laura Wallace’s sermon, “Healing the Gulf,” presented to the UU Congregation of the Peninsula in Newport News Aug. 22, go to our latest web page.

We are also organizing a carpool to attend a rally in Washington, D.C., Sept. 27 (Monday), “Appalachia Rising,” led by our new friends from Charleston, WV.

AND watch for our special worship service on Sunday evening, Oct. 17, A Vigil for the People and Mountains of Appalachia, our second annual vigil marking the International Day for Climate Action.  Speakers from Appalachia, mountain music, a Roll Call of the (Lost) Mountains, and Americana quilts will be part of this candlelight vigil to call attention to MTR and our complicity in it. Contact Sharon Baiocco, green@uucharlottesville.org for more information.