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August 2020
Charter for Compassion
Join the Charter for Compassion as we travel around the world to celebrate and showcase Compassion in action and to also raise funds for the Charter programs. Join us for stories, songs, poems and inspiration! For 24- hours, we’ll take a virtual journey to see how compassion is creating a global movement of people who are caring for themselves, others and their communities.
Find out more »Sing for Justice Virtual Concert
Spiritualing is a beautiful way to and create joy and healing while exercising our activism. Join us as we sing for justice along with incredible vocalists from all around the Bay Area. We're coming together to lift our voices because we believe in the power of song to bring about change and healing to our communities. You'll be inspired as we sing our way through some of the greatest African American Spirituals that have served as a cornerstone in racial…
Find out more »The Color of Compromise, an ongoing Conversation
August 19: Chapter 11 – The Fierce Urgency of Now Conclusion – Be Strong and Courageous Crossroads United Methodist Church will be hosting a 10-week online conversation via zoom on the topic of Racial Justice every Wednesday from June 17 to August 19 from 7:00-8:30 pm. Dr. Jim Melson, a retired Virginia Conference pastor and founder of the Cornellius Corps, a ministry to bridge the gap between inner city and suburbs, particularly in the area of racial justice, will be…
Find out more »Creating the Whole Person: Faith and Mental Health Professionals Partner to Address Mental Illness
In addressing faith and mental health, it is important that services to individuals with mental illness and their caregivers align with the training and skills held by faith leaders as well as mental health professionals. Mental health professionals and faith leaders benefit from working together and supporting each professionals’ respective expertise and training in order to promote wellness for people experiencing mental illness and their caregivers. Principles 4 and 5 in the Compassion in Action Guide emphasize the importance of…
Find out more »The Moral Imperative of Educational Equity
How, during an unprecedented pandemic, can we educate all children equitably—with closed schools, disruptions in food assistance, and lack of internet access for home-learning affecting some far more than others? Especially now, how can we not? Believing that educational equity is a moral imperative, Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church has asked Dr. John B. King, Jr., former US Secretary of Education in the Obama Administration, to address the needs and possibilities for accessible, equitable educational opportunities for low-income and otherwise disadvantaged children and youth, especially those…
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