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🙌🏾 "Unchecked privilege results in impunity with lack of accountability leading to harming of people, communities & democracy. Communities of faith should demand accountabilities rather than perpetuate privilege."

-Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia Thompson

👉🏾 Full blog: https://ow.ly/y4Hi50XjNQS
📣TODAY!

❤️💙 Join the UCC Washington D.C. Office for a conversation on Project 2025 and how the policy landscape and the UCC’s faith-based responses have evolved over the past year since the election.

❤️💙 This webinar will equip you with context & tools to put love into action today!

👇🏾 Register
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: What's Next: Countering Project 2025 with Love: One Year Later. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join the UCC Washington D.C. Office for a conversation on Project 2025 and how the policy landscape and the UCC’s faith-based responses have evolved over the past year since the election. By revisiting our resource “Countering Project 2025 With Love: A UCC Response,” this webinar will explore enduring commitments and new challenges across issues such as LGBTQ+ rights, immigration justice, international peace, and more. We will also introduce our new toolkit for faithful advocacy, offering practical ways for individuals and congregations to help build a just world for all. Whether you’re new...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
💟 Are you feeling the effects of overwhelm and/or burnout?

💟 Many pastors called to address relevant issues are being overwhelmed by unending waves of newsworthy events.

💟 Join us for a conversation with Rev. Nicolette as we talk about the importance of developing sustainable preaching habits.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Future of Faith: Resisting Overwhelm in Tumultuous Times. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Concerned about clergy burnout, Rev. Nicolette developed a boundary training called "Centered Preaching in Tumultuous Times" that she taught for the first time in May 2025. Many are drawn to the UCC because of our passion for social justice. However, pastors who feel called to address the relevant issues of the day are being overwhelmed by unending waves of newsworthy events. Join us for a conversation with Rev. Nicolette as we talk about the joys and challenges of preaching in this time, the importance of developing sustainable preaching habits, and some of the hard lessons she has learned...
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November 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
🌟 With Advent a few weeks away, we’ve got a round-up of resources for the season. Some designed for worship, others for individuals or groups. All offer reflections & tools for carrying hope & expectation through the challenges & possibilities of our time.

🌟 Resources: https://ow.ly/qNeZ50XoUWf
Advent 2025 resources offer paths for ‘awaking and preparing, expecting and dreaming’ - United Church of Christ
As the 2025 Advent season nears, new United Church of Christ resources invite people to engage with past prophets, abolitionists, and wisdom in order to
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November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🏳️‍⚧️ 🕯️Trans Day of Remembrance embodies our belief in the power of naming Trans beloveds we have lost to violence.

🏳️‍⚧️ 🕯️ We'll share space in remembering our trans siblings, celebrating the divine within them, and honoring God's uniqueness & gifts.

👉🏾 Join us: https://ow.ly/8hcf50XoUY8
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
📚🌍 Join us to celebrate the release of the book "Climate Justice, Climate Hope" with authors Rev. Michael Malcom & rev. abby mohaupt, which acknowledges the stark horrors of climate change while building hope & moral-spiritual agency for a brighter future.

👉🏾 Register: https://ow.ly/OnQ450XoUY5
November 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
🏳️‍🌈 Yesterday the Supreme Court decided to remove gender markers from passport applications, today debating marriage equality.

🏳️‍⚧️ God’s creation is not up for debate, nor is disembodying our God given right to be who we were created to be.

-R. Ward, UCC's Minister of Gender & Sexuality Justice
November 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
🌿 In Part II, we're joined by three members of the Small Town & Rural Coalition (STAR).

🌿 STAR communities are often uniquely tied to the land & we'll learn how being stewards to the land informs how we believe in God & how it connects us to one another.

👉🏾 Register: https://ow.ly/7HG050XotcU
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
💜 Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia Thompson, UCC GMP, attended a board meeting of the Values in Action/Kindland organization in NYC this week as they get ready to launch a national initiative on kindness. Look for more in an upcoming UCC News article!

👉🏾 More info about Kindland: https://ow.ly/AnvX50XnXis
November 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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The administration has slashed the U.S. refugee cap to a historic low of 7,500—reserving most spots for white Afrikaners. This is not just cruel; it's policy rooted in white supremacy and a betrayal of our nation’s and our faith’s core values.

Read more from Rev. Shari Prestemon: ow.ly/QYsl50XmyvC
November 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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🧡 Last week, UCC conference ministers brought your personal stories directly to members of Congress.

By sharing real accounts of how government policies are impacting families, you show decision makers that #LoveKnowsNoBorders.

Submit your story here: ow.ly/QYLY50XmJPx
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🙏🏾 Dear God,

We lift in prayer our siblings in Louisville and all affected by the tragic plane crash, those who are injured or missing, and those whose lives were cut short in this disaster. Surround them and their loved ones with your Spirit and hold them in their pain and grief.

Amen
November 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
📣TOMORROW we begin the Land series, Part I: Protecting & Caring for the Historic Lands of Armenia.

🌿 We'll hear from Armenian UCC pastor, Rev. Dr. Heather Ohaneson, about ancient Mount Ararat to medieval monasteries to contemporary churches serving refugees.

👉🏾 Register: https://ow.ly/zByM50XnjQn
November 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
🙌🏾 Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia Thompson discusses the fleeting news cycle, with important issues missed because of popularity or shifting stories. She shares info about the current genocide in Sudan, an issue that many of us have missed.

👉🏾 Read the entire blog here: https://ow.ly/8H2A50Xn7iY
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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"Amos and Jesus share an unapologetic knowing that everything claimed as religion isn’t always sacred or holy." @unitedchurch.bsky.social www.ucc.org/daily-devoti...
Table-Turning Gumption
We each have the power to do something in the building up of a new world, while protecting the earth and caring for our neighbors. In the words of Assata Shakur, “We have nothing to lose but our chain...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🙏🏾 Holy One,

We pray for those whose hearts are broken by cruelty, violence & unnecessary suffering.

We ask for clarity, courage to respond in compassion & hospitality, deep abiding love for our neighbors & our enemies. Amen.

-Amanda Udis-Kessler

👉🏾 Share your prayer: https://ow.ly/ytqQ50XlNZ7
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
📚🌍 Join us to celebrate the release of the book "Climate Justice, Climate Hope" with authors Rev. Michael Malcom & rev. abby mohaupt, which acknowledges the stark horrors of climate change while building hope & moral-spiritual agency for a brighter future.

👉🏾 Register: https://ow.ly/JSln50XmNx2
November 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
📣 Join us TOMORROW!

🦉 Join us for a conversation and expansive view of inclusion and accommodations for Our Whole Lives (OWL) participants, with Dan Long, Student Services Supervisor, Special Education in the Seattle Public Schools.

👉🏾 Register: https://ow.ly/LQmb50XmBop
November 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It’s Election Day: time to go #VoteWithLove!

The UCC affirms that voting is a sacred expression of our values and a chance to build a world rooted in justice, compassion, and hope.

Every ballot cast with love helps shape a more just and caring future.
November 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🙏🏾 God,

In all the universe, You chose us!

Thank You for Your carefully handcrafted masterpieces. Help us to look at ourselves and each other with the same awe You have for us. Show us our unique beauty through Your lens.

-Karl Heilman

👉🏾 Share your prayers with us: https://ow.ly/lxYH50XlKAZ
November 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
❤️💙 Join the UCC Washington D.C. Office for a conversation on Project 2025 and how the policy landscape and the UCC’s faith-based responses have evolved over the past year since the election.

❤️💙 This webinar will equip you with both context & tools to put love into action today!

👇🏾 Register
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: What's Next: Countering Project 2025 with Love: One Year Later. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join the UCC Washington D.C. Office for a conversation on Project 2025 and how the policy landscape and the UCC’s faith-based responses have evolved over the past year since the election. By revisiting our resource “Countering Project 2025 With Love: A UCC Response,” this webinar will explore enduring commitments and new challenges across issues such as LGBTQ+ rights, immigration justice, international peace, and more. We will also introduce our new toolkit for faithful advocacy, offering practical ways for individuals and congregations to help build a just world for all. Whether you’re new...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
“This is a resurrection model; this is not a business model. The overarching principle has to be about new life and abundance — not always playing by the well-thought-out business rules, but by the gospel ethic of unconditional love and mutuality.” - Rev. Staci Marrese-Wheeler

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‘This is a resurrection model’: How two small, aging Wisconsin churches joined to build new space and community ties - United Church of Christ
When the Rev. Staci Marrese-Wheeler became pastor of Lakeview Moravian Church in 2009, she believed she would bring her skills as a former hospice
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November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🙏🏾 God of many names,

Let justice flow, compassion rise & remind us: silence is never neutrality. Teach us to see one another as kin, to protect the vulnerable, to defend the oppressed, to celebrate every life as sacred. Amen

-Reed Kirkman

Share a prayer with us: https://ow.ly/Iewb50XlHkr
November 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
🌿 Part 1 of our 3 Part Land Series: Protecting & Caring for the Historic Christian Lands of Armenia.

🌍 We're joined by an Armenian UCC pastor learn about medieval monasteries to contemporary churches serving refugees from the 2020 war with Azerbaijan.

👉🏾 Register: https://ow.ly/gxHh50Xl4zo
November 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
🫶🏾 In this divisive moment, we are called to both go forth & build meaningful connection across lines of differences & tend to our spirits & communities.

🫶🏾 Join us for a conversation magnifying the sacramental beauty of interfaith friendship & doing the inner work to sustain ourselves.
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The Future of Faith: The Sacrament of Interfaith Friendship. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
In this divisive moment, we are called to both go forth and build meaningful connection across lines of difference and to tend to our spirits and communities. Join us for a conversation this intersection between magnifying the sacramental beauty of interfaith friendship and doing the inner work we all must do to sustain ourselves. Future of Faith: So many of us are living in the most divided times we’ve known where each of us are being asked to embody the uncertainty of our inter and intra-personal relationships. This includes our faith - what does it mean to deepen or return to our faith...
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November 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🙏🏾 Divine Source,

We ask for your forgiveness for the ways we've hurt your creation. We call upon your healing love to break forth & bloom so that we may begin to live in community again.

-Katie Johnson Gant

👉🏾 Share your prayer: https://ow.ly/vxW750Xlsvr
November 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM