Category: Social Justice

Please join us on Sunday (14 November 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

We are discussing episodes of the podcast Learning How to See with Rev. Brian McLaren, Father Richard Rohr, and Rev. Jacqui Lewis.

They are discussing the 13 kinds of bias that Rev. Barbara mentioned recently in a sermon.

The group felt that this series would keep us in the realm of our anti-racism work while also being topically relevant to our pillar on Jewish and Christian heritage as these three Christian leaders discuss our tendency toward these biases from a faith-based perspective.

Although we may play short excerpts during class, we are encouraging people to listen on their own between sessions.

This week — Season 1, Episodes 3 and 4 — “Seeing as a Social Act” and “What Authoritarian Leaders See”

You can find all episodes of the podcast here.

If you have a smart speaker or other smart device from Google or Amazon, you can ask it to “play the podcast Learning How to See, Season 1, Episode 3” or “play the podcast Learning How to See, Season 1, Episode 4.”

Be sure to use those specific words — if you just say the name of the podcast, you might get the latest episode from Season 2.

If you are using an Apple device with Siri, you can ask Siri to “search for podcast Learning How to See” to find this episode and all other episodes released so far in Learning How to See.

Please join us on Sunday (7 November 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

We are discussing episodes of the podcast Learning How to See with Rev. Brian McLaren, Father Richard Rohr, and Rev. Jacqui Lewis.

They are discussing the 13 kinds of bias that Rev. Barbara mentioned recently in a sermon.

The group felt that this series would keep us in the realm of our anti-racism work while also being topically relevant to our pillar on Jewish and Christian heritage as these three Christian leaders discuss our tendency toward these biases from a faith-based perspective.

Although we may play short excerpts during class, we are encouraging people to listen on their own between sessions.

This week — Season 1, Episode 2 — “Seeing as a Social Act”

You can find all episodes of the podcast here.

If you have a smart speaker or other smart device from Google or Amazon, you can ask it to “play the podcast Learning How to See, Season 1, Episode 2.”

Be sure to use those specific words — if you just say the name of the podcast, you might get the latest episode from Season 2.

If you are using an Apple device with Siri, you can ask Siri to “search for podcast Learning How to See” to find this episode and all other episodes released so far in Learning How to See.

Please join us on Sunday (31 October 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

This group will take time to review and reevaluate the anti-racism work we have done so far and determine how we want to move forward from here.

Please join us on Sunday (24 October 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

This group will take time to review and reevaluate the anti-racism work we have done so far and determine how we want to move forward from here.

Our weekly adult religious education class is taking a break this Sunday (17 October 2021).

We will resume our Sunday morning classes next Sunday (24 October 2021) at 9:00 AM.

At that time, the group will review and reevaluate the anti-racism work we have done so far and determine how we want to move forward.

And — for those who wanted them — copies of the book Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad should be after 25 October 2021.  Watch for information on how and when you can pick one up.

Our weekly adult religious education class is taking a break this Sunday (10 October 2021) and next Sunday (17 October 2021).

We will resume our Sunday morning classes on Sunday, 24 October 2021, at 9:00 AM.

At that time, the group will review and reevaluate the anti-racism work we have done so far and determine how we want to move forward.

And — for those who wanted them — copies of the book Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad should be in some time this week.  Watch for information on how and when you can pick one up.

Please join us on Sunday (3 October 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

This Sunday — “A Guide to the 2021 Louisiana Constitutional Amendments” with guest speaker Dr. David Lindenfeld.

Join us as we welcome David Lindenfeld — a fellow Unitarian Universalist from the Unitarian Church of Baton Rouge, retired LSU history professor, and Together Louisiana leader.

As chair of the Tax Fairness Team of Together Baton Rouge, he has been “plumbing the depths of Louisiana tax policy since 2019.”

FYI — the post-Hurricane Ida revised election date is now 13 November 2021.

Early voting will be from 30 October 2021 through 6 November 2021.

A statewide “quick facts” PDF guide on the upcoming election can be found here.

A PDF guide to the proposed amendments can be found here.