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By Mary Lou Dahms, Racial Justice Ministry The Racial Justice Ministry (RJM) creates opportunities to support your journey toward justice. Here are some upcoming highlights for this October: Run (or Walk) the Revolutionary Mile in Trenton – October 16 The First Annual Revolutionary Mile will be held in downtown Trenton on Thursday, October 16. Members … Continue reading Racial Justice Ministry Activities for October 2025
By Denny Rodgers, Racial Justice Ministry If you are of the age when you must take Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) from your IRAs, you can elect to make Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCD) to eligible co-organizations like, for example, our church. Your broker will send checks directly to them, and you will not be taxed on … Continue reading A Win-Win Way of Supporting Racial Justice Causes
By Victoria Locane, Racial Justice Ministry At a recent Racial Justice Ministry (RJM) meeting, the team came together to answer the question: How do we show others the mission of UUCWC? Inspired by other advocacy groups, we were inspired to show the UUCWC mission in the world via a T-shirt. We thought that, as a group, seeing … Continue reading Wearing Our Mission: New UUCWC T-Shirts Amplify Our Advocacy and Community
by Susan Irgang, Congregational Administrator Don’t ever think that one person can’t make a difference. Our Racial Justice Ministry (RJM) noted that Ewing Township had not passed a resolution endorsing the enactment of the New Jersey Reparations Task Force Act. On behalf of RJM, Ewing resident Denny Rodgers decided to do something. In December 2023, … Continue reading The Power of Persistence and Perseverance
by Regina Podhorin Zilinski The Racial Justice Ministry (RJM) recently hosted a speaker from the Unitarian Universalist Faith Action New Jersey (UUFANJ) Reparations Task Force to update us on their activities and plans to move forward the conversation about reparations in New Jersey. As a result of this conversation, we have decided to engage more … Continue reading Racial Justice Ministry Considers Reparations
by Geri Koblis, for the Racial Justice Ministry If you have ever taken an online quiz or survey which presents multiple choice answers and asks you to fill in a number to indicate your most important choice to your least, you have done Ranked Choice Voting (RCV). In some states such as New Jersey, this … Continue reading Ranked Choice Voting and the 8th Principle
The Racial Justice Ministry (RJM) has developed a plan for 2022 to engage congregants in the communal and individual work of antiracism. We know many of you long for opportunities to both work together as well as have resources for individually staying abreast of new insights into antiracism work. As a result, we are announcing … Continue reading Racial Justice Ministry Antiracism Learning/Allyship Opportunities for 2022
The members of the Racial Justice Ministry (RJM) met within two hours of the verdict being announced in the George Floyd murder case. We had planned a few days prior to meet and prepare to support the congregation through any outcome. We started our meeting by checking in on how people were feeling after hearing … Continue reading UUCWC Racial Justice Ministry Reflects on Derek Chauvin Conviction
by Michelle Hunt, Right Relations Committee In June of 2018, our congregation approved the 8th UU Principle: “We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in … Continue reading Policies on When We Call the Police Under Review
Please join us for a Side With Love Watch Party: The Black Church February 16 & 17 @ 8:45pm-11:15pm EST Co-Hosted by Revs. Duncan Teague & Michael Crumpler Register Now Side With Love invites you to join as they livestream the premiere of PBS’s The Black Church, an epic production about the impacts of the … Continue reading Side with Love Watch Party
