6301 River Road
Bethesda MD 20817
(entrance on Whittier Blvd.)
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RRUUC is an easy-access facility.

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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Tough and Universal Love

January 14, 2024, 10am Rev. Nancy McDonald Ladd Senior Minister

James Baldwin once wrote that “love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without but know we cannot live within…” In the riskiest way, it takes away pretense and leaves us vulnerable to the implications of that love. This sermon will work with Baldwin’s understanding of a tough and universal love that extends out from the personal.

RE classes will meet as usual, except for OWL. Childcare for children 3 and under will be available.

You can watch this service live on YouTube or join us in person.

River Road UU Congregation

River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation

Tough and Universal Love