“We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.”

We, at our Unitarian Coastal Fellowship, are continuing our journey towards voting on adoption of the above UU 8th Principle at our Annual Meeting in June of this year. The Racial Justice Group will be presenting the second program to our congregation on March 8. And in April we hope to center our discussion around what adopting the 8th Principle would mean to us and to UCF.

Our March 8 program and discussion will be about implicit bias – those biases we all hold that we are not even aware of. We will show a twelve-minute Ted Talk by Dushaw Hockett, the founder and executive director of Safe Places for the Advancement of Community Equity (SPACEs), and three very short videos to help us better understand implicit bias. The videos will be followed by cookies and discussion. We hope you are able to attend one of our sessions. Bring a friend from our congregation with you.