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Bethesda MD 20817
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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 Thing and the Symbol of the Thing

Oct. 17, 2021, 10am and 12pm Rev. Nancy McDonald Ladd Senior Minister

Rev. Nancy preaches often that real relationships have to be at the core of our commitments – in the congregation and in the world. This sermon, inspired by River Roader Jon Kerner, invites us to get beyond the temptation of symbolic or transactional relationships and toward some sense of real mutuality and shared accountability. As a colleague recently said, “the symbol of a stone never could slay Goliath.” How can we build real, accountable relationships in the community of communities?

Pre-register for our TWO services at 10:00 and 12:00 here. 10am service will be online and in person; 12pm service is only in person. Registration is only necessary for in-person attendance.

River Road UU Congregation

River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation

The Thing and the Symbol of the Thing