Speaker: Rev. Abhi Janamanchi Senior Minister Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church

Being Spiritual AND Religious

“Being privately spiritual but not religious just doesn’t interest me. There is nothing challenging about having deep thoughts all by yourself. What is interesting is doing this work in community, where other people might call you in on your stuff, or disagree with you.  The service will explore what it might mean to be both … read more

Being Anti-Racist, a Joint Worship Service

“The opposite of ‘racist’ isn’t ‘not racist.” It is ‘antiracist,” writes Dr. Ibram X. Kendi in his groundbreaking book How To Be An Anti-Racist. How do we become anti-racist as individuals and as a religious community? How are we proactively acting to dismantle systemic racism, and to implement policies that will measurably increase equity, and … read more

Engaging With Pluralism

We take great pride in being a majority-minority county. We have 170 cultures with 162 languages spoken in our public schools and 44 percent of our residents are foreign-born or live with parents who are foreign-born. But to benefit from the extraordinary gifts that come with diversity, we need to go beyond “celebrating” diversity and learn to engage with it. Come … read more