Join the Global Connections Office at the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Leadership Institute for Growth, Healing, and Transformation at Meadville Lombard for this three-part series focusing on wealth in North American Unitarian Universalism. We’ll take a conversational approach to various topics including classism in North American U/Uism, charitable giving from congregations, church endowments, community partnerships, reconciliation, and reparations. The series will include presentation, discussion, and how-to’s of changing wealth practices with leaders across fields of ministry and philanthropy.
In “Benevolent Intentions: Decolonizing the Religious Liberal Imperial Mind, an American Story,” Rev. Fred Muir traces the interwoven history of US imperialism and UU evangelization. Exploring themes of democracy as missionary work, American and UU exceptionalism, and the history of eugenics, Muir exposes religiously inflected thinking and actions undertaken by UU faith and political leaders with intentions of civilizing the “other.” Join us as we hear from Rev. Muir and Rev. Joan Javier Duval, who serve together as UUA Ambassadors to the Philippines, about this research and the importance of asking the question of faith, “What do we want our history to do to us?”
NOTE: Participants are welcome to email global@uua.org if you’re interested in a free copy of Rev. Fred Muir’s new book “Benevolent Intentions: Decolonizing the Religious Liberal Imperial Mind, an American Story”