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Our VisionTo energize people of faith to create an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just life for all those who live in Arizona.
Our MissionTo engage Arizona Unitarian Universalists in justice making through:
nurturing congregational social justice ministries; connecting UU activists and congregations across the state; partnering with like-minded justice organizations; empowering UUs to work for socially just public policy. |
Keep my anger from becoming meanness.
Keep my sorrow from collapsing into self-pity.
Keep my heart soft enough to keep breaking.
Keep my anger turned towards justice, not cruelty.
Remind me that all of this, every bit of it, is for love.
Keep me fiercely kind.
- Laura Jean Truman
Keep my sorrow from collapsing into self-pity.
Keep my heart soft enough to keep breaking.
Keep my anger turned towards justice, not cruelty.
Remind me that all of this, every bit of it, is for love.
Keep me fiercely kind.
- Laura Jean Truman
Love In Action
Let's Talk About the 2023 Changes to Our UU Principles, Sources, and Purpose
Our social justice work centers putting our UU values into action… but what do UUs value? In 2020 the UUA commissioned a team to study the principles, sources, purpose, and values of Unitarian Universalism in order to suggest changes to the bylaws where they are housed (Article 2) in summer 2023. UUJAZ has been following the proposed changes, and we want to hold space for a weekly conversation to explore our individual and collective values.
Learn more about the Article 2 Study Commission here and then register below:
Sedona UU with Rev. Anthony: Wednesdays Nov 9th - December 14th, 10:30 am - 12 pm
Anyone in AZ: Wednesdays Nov 9th - December 7th, 6 - 7:30 pm
Granite Peak: coming soon
Let's Talk About the 2023 Changes to Our UU Principles, Sources, and Purpose
Our social justice work centers putting our UU values into action… but what do UUs value? In 2020 the UUA commissioned a team to study the principles, sources, purpose, and values of Unitarian Universalism in order to suggest changes to the bylaws where they are housed (Article 2) in summer 2023. UUJAZ has been following the proposed changes, and we want to hold space for a weekly conversation to explore our individual and collective values.
Learn more about the Article 2 Study Commission here and then register below:
Sedona UU with Rev. Anthony: Wednesdays Nov 9th - December 14th, 10:30 am - 12 pm
Anyone in AZ: Wednesdays Nov 9th - December 7th, 6 - 7:30 pm
Granite Peak: coming soon
UU the Vote with UUJAZ
June - November 2022
Democracy hangs in the balance, reproductive rights are clinging by a thread, and we are still waiting for promises about climate and immigration justice to be realized. In the meantime: the pandemic, economic injustice, sexism, racism, transphobia and homophobia keep us exhausted and unsure what to do. But UUJAZ has your back. Join us to be in community with UUs across Arizona who are making a difference in their communities, grounding each other and sharing ideas for electoral engagement.
Our reporting form is live: Submit your electoral efforts here to help track your congregation's progress to becoming a Good Trouble Congregation. Remember to add the work you have already done collecting signatures for ballot initiatives, writing letters, phonebanking, and more. The form is available at bit.ly/uutvaz.
Email Casey Clowes, UUJAZ Congregational Organizer and UU the Vote Program Coordinator, with your questions at casey@uujaz.org.
Democracy hangs in the balance, reproductive rights are clinging by a thread, and we are still waiting for promises about climate and immigration justice to be realized. In the meantime: the pandemic, economic injustice, sexism, racism, transphobia and homophobia keep us exhausted and unsure what to do. But UUJAZ has your back. Join us to be in community with UUs across Arizona who are making a difference in their communities, grounding each other and sharing ideas for electoral engagement.
Our reporting form is live: Submit your electoral efforts here to help track your congregation's progress to becoming a Good Trouble Congregation. Remember to add the work you have already done collecting signatures for ballot initiatives, writing letters, phonebanking, and more. The form is available at bit.ly/uutvaz.
Email Casey Clowes, UUJAZ Congregational Organizer and UU the Vote Program Coordinator, with your questions at casey@uujaz.org.
The ABCs of Abolition
Fall 2022
Recent events have shown us, more clearly than ever: the police do NOT keep us safe. It's past time to start creating real solutions for community safety and individual thriving, but luckily, we're not starting from square one. Many people, especially from BIPOC communities, have been working on this problem for decades. UUJAZ, in partnership with Side With Love, has created an incredible curriculum about the urgent work of abolishing police and prisons, which we are presenting to AZ UUs as "The ABCs of Abolition."
Sign up here to learn more about our upcoming course.
Recent events have shown us, more clearly than ever: the police do NOT keep us safe. It's past time to start creating real solutions for community safety and individual thriving, but luckily, we're not starting from square one. Many people, especially from BIPOC communities, have been working on this problem for decades. UUJAZ, in partnership with Side With Love, has created an incredible curriculum about the urgent work of abolishing police and prisons, which we are presenting to AZ UUs as "The ABCs of Abolition."
Sign up here to learn more about our upcoming course.
UU Day at the Legislature 2023
Monday February 20th, 9am at the Arizona State Capitol
When we come together for collective action, we build power in our movement for justice and liberation. Save the date for this year's annual UU Day at the Legislature, at the Arizona State Capitol, which has traditionally included a lobby training, guest speakers, a capitol tour, and appointments to speak with your legislators. To be sure we involve congregations as much as possible in re-imagining this event, we'd love for all folks to take a minute to give some feedback. If you think you'd be willing to be a DATL "captain" for your legislative district, fill out the form by Nov. 15th.
Give your input and register here
Monday February 20th, 9am at the Arizona State Capitol
When we come together for collective action, we build power in our movement for justice and liberation. Save the date for this year's annual UU Day at the Legislature, at the Arizona State Capitol, which has traditionally included a lobby training, guest speakers, a capitol tour, and appointments to speak with your legislators. To be sure we involve congregations as much as possible in re-imagining this event, we'd love for all folks to take a minute to give some feedback. If you think you'd be willing to be a DATL "captain" for your legislative district, fill out the form by Nov. 15th.
Give your input and register here
Fight for Reproductive Justice with Sex Education
Save the date for our statewide OWL teacher training, Friday March 3rd - Sunday March 5th 2023, in Tucson
Honest, accurate information about sexuality changes lives. It dismantles stereotypes and assumptions, builds self-acceptance and self-esteem, fosters healthy relationships, improves decision making, and, now more than ever, has the potential to save lives. That's why we are proud to offer a statewide teacher training for Our Whole Lives (OWL), a comprehensive, lifespan sexuality education curricula that lifts up the values of self worth, sexual health, responsibility, justice, and inclusivity.
It is our goal to be able to offer OWL in all Arizona UU congregations, as well as support many of our UU-adjacent community partners in training teachers to offer OWL. Ask yourself if becoming an OWL teacher is the spiritual practice for you, in the fight for reproductive justice.
Register at uujaz.org/register
Save the date for our statewide OWL teacher training, Friday March 3rd - Sunday March 5th 2023, in Tucson
Honest, accurate information about sexuality changes lives. It dismantles stereotypes and assumptions, builds self-acceptance and self-esteem, fosters healthy relationships, improves decision making, and, now more than ever, has the potential to save lives. That's why we are proud to offer a statewide teacher training for Our Whole Lives (OWL), a comprehensive, lifespan sexuality education curricula that lifts up the values of self worth, sexual health, responsibility, justice, and inclusivity.
It is our goal to be able to offer OWL in all Arizona UU congregations, as well as support many of our UU-adjacent community partners in training teachers to offer OWL. Ask yourself if becoming an OWL teacher is the spiritual practice for you, in the fight for reproductive justice.
Register at uujaz.org/register
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Beloved Conversations Beloved Conversations curriculum developers at Meadville Lombard Theological School have responded to the needs to learn how race and ethnicity shape our personal and collective lives and practices, in a virtual format. In 2020, 93 UUs from Arizona joined 1200 UUs in participating in the first half of Beloved Conversations: Within. |
Within
The first phase, Within focuses on the internal work that each of us needs to do as we engage racial justice. This work is different for White folks and for Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) and will be done entirely in race-based caucuses. You do not need to have taken the Fall session to register for Spring: the two halves of Within can be taken in any order.
Read about Within here.
Within+ Exploration Stations
Finished with Within and ready for more? Join one of these play stations for your soul and engage in deep and creative ways, focused on one topic, as it intersects with issues of race and racism.
Read about Within+ Exploration Stations here.
Among
The second phase of Beloved Conversations, focused on the institutional, systemic change needed in our congregations is open to Congregations whose members have participated in the first phase, Within.
Read about Among here.
The first phase, Within focuses on the internal work that each of us needs to do as we engage racial justice. This work is different for White folks and for Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) and will be done entirely in race-based caucuses. You do not need to have taken the Fall session to register for Spring: the two halves of Within can be taken in any order.
Read about Within here.
Within+ Exploration Stations
Finished with Within and ready for more? Join one of these play stations for your soul and engage in deep and creative ways, focused on one topic, as it intersects with issues of race and racism.
Read about Within+ Exploration Stations here.
Among
The second phase of Beloved Conversations, focused on the institutional, systemic change needed in our congregations is open to Congregations whose members have participated in the first phase, Within.
Read about Among here.
The Institute for Radical Permission
The oppressive systems and structures of this world can distance us from our divine nature. For most of us, the permission to be our full, authentic, and divine selves was interrupted early in our lives, replaced by people-pleasing, self-denial, and scarcity. To experience liberation, we have to give ourselves radical permission to live our lives rooted in our deepest YES. This YES returns us to our divine nature. When you give yourself increasing permission to imagine, feel pleasure, and love, you are practicing the act of radical freedom in real time.
Radical Permission is a transformative ideological collaboration between Sonya Renee Taylor and adrienne maree brown. They’ve created this Institute to share with all of you the ideas and practices that have given them greater connection to themselves, others, and their true purpose. We are thrilled to offer this course to Arizona UUs, so that you can be part of the next community exploring radical permission, together in pods.
Registration coming Spring 2023
The oppressive systems and structures of this world can distance us from our divine nature. For most of us, the permission to be our full, authentic, and divine selves was interrupted early in our lives, replaced by people-pleasing, self-denial, and scarcity. To experience liberation, we have to give ourselves radical permission to live our lives rooted in our deepest YES. This YES returns us to our divine nature. When you give yourself increasing permission to imagine, feel pleasure, and love, you are practicing the act of radical freedom in real time.
Radical Permission is a transformative ideological collaboration between Sonya Renee Taylor and adrienne maree brown. They’ve created this Institute to share with all of you the ideas and practices that have given them greater connection to themselves, others, and their true purpose. We are thrilled to offer this course to Arizona UUs, so that you can be part of the next community exploring radical permission, together in pods.
Registration coming Spring 2023
Trans Inclusion in Congregations from Transforming Hearts Collective
UUJAZ is thrilled to provide access to this online course on radical welcoming for all AZ UUs, thanks to a generous grant from the UU Funding panel. This course on transformational culture shift counts towards your annual Welcoming Congregation renewal. Contact us for your free login code (usually $125 per person) to explore this course at your own pace, or create a group at your congregation to take it together! If you’re interested in scheduling a course for your congregation, email uujaz.director@gmail.com. |
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Book GroUUp
Looking for your next justice-centered read? See below for all the important books we have read and discussed in groUUp with Arizona UUs.
Purchasing your books from the UUA Bookstore, InSpirit, supports the work of our faith tradition.
Purchasing your books from the UUA Bookstore, InSpirit, supports the work of our faith tradition.
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