"I'm fundamentally a hopeful person, because I know that decisions made the world as it is and that better decisions can change it. Nothing about our situation is inevitable or immutable, but you can't solve a problem with the consciousness that created it." ― Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together Happy Tuesday, friends!
We invite you and your communities to join any or all of the upcoming gatherings for the month of March. As Alice Kurima Newberry writes, "When things in the world become so overwhelming, so big and out of reach, so challenging, where do we turn? We turn to our own power, our own communities, and we organize, build, and grow resiliency." Spring Equinox Dinner Church: THIS SUNDAY - March 20 @ 5pm PT / 6 MT / 7 CT / 8 ET Gather together! UU Ministry for Earth is excited to partner with Nourish UU. Together, we offer an interactive plant-based dinner church experience for those working for justice to gather, restore and prepare for the work now and ahead! Congregational Climate Convergence: March 22 @ 10am-1:30 pm PT /11am-2:30 pm MT / 12-3:30 pm CT / 1-4:30pm ET Calling all congregational lay leaders and religious professionals passionate about climate justice! Join Side With Love, Green Sanctuary 2030, and UU Ministry for Earth for a day of community nourishment, resource sharing and skill-building to support your local eco ministries! Ecology as Scripture: March 23 @ 9am-Noon PT / 10am-1pm MT / 11-2 CT / 12-3 ET For Ministers, Seminarians, Religious Educators & Lay Leaders Connect science to spiritual practice and peace education. This workshop is an exploration of climate change and how connecting the climate crisis to religious beliefs, teachings, and practices can inspire local and global actions. Environmental Justice + Heather McGhee: March 30 @ 5pm PT/6pm MT/7pm CT/8pm ET The UUMFE BIPOC Caucus is calling all changemakers! This month we're taking lessons from Heather McGhee in finding places of radical change and necessary hope as we bring both of these themes home to ourselves and our communities. The reality is we can no longer operate without bridging the relationship between racial injustice and our climate crises. It's time to dive in deep as we learn from Heather's talk on the Sum of Us and then challenge ourselves to take what we learned to ourselves and our communities. To all who work in myriad ways to build a culture of environmental justice and possibility, especially now, thank you! Yours on the journey,  Aly Tharp (they/them or she/hers) and Daniel Lawlor (he/him), Co-Directors, Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth | PS.  You can learn more about this year's Spring for Change: A Season of Sacred Activism programming (including Earth Day and the Spring Seminar!) by clicking the link below: | 
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