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Resolution on Racial Justice
As individuals, we commit to a new level of engagement, to continually seek ways to use our voices, our privilege, our standing in the community to effect change.
As a congregation, we commit to turning a new page. We declare the obvious—that Black lives matter to our beloved community. We affirm the need for powerful words and collective action, both to call out injustice and to call in love.

RRUUC Land and Labor Acknowledgment
We acknowledge that the land on which we worship is the traditional land of the Nacotchtank and Piscataway people and the land through which other Indigenous Peoples traveled. We acknowledge that enslaved African people and their descendants likely labored and lived on this land. We recognize these and other people displaced, enslaved, or harmed by past injustices.

We pledge that we will follow our faith in love and work to make our congregation and our larger community more accessible, inclusive, and equitable. We pledge that we will be good stewards of the land by encouraging healthy ecosystems. We pledge to remember the past while building a more just and welcoming future for all.

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The Call of the Church in a Post-Ferguson Age

Sun., Aug 11, 10am Rev. Nancy McDonald Ladd and Bishop Douglas Miles Koinonia Baptist Church

Five years after the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson Missouri, noted preacher, pastor and community leader Bishop Douglas Miles will bring us a message from the heart of his calling. Using a text from the Book of Acts, he’ll ask, “Why do the people of the church stand looking up toward heaven for the change we need? How can we create that change by anointing each other with a calling in this world?”

Please stay after the service for shared conversation on the subjects we raise, and shared commitment for the work that lies ahead.

Bishop Miles is a nationally respected leader in congregation-based community organizing, serving as a keystone of both his local Baltimore organization (BUILD) and on the national strategy team for the Industrial Areas Foundation, the largest and longest-standing community organizing body in the country.

River Road UU Congregation

River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation

The Call of the Church in a Post-Ferguson Age