The Rev. Meredith Garman offers a prayer<\/a> for the suffering in the world this week.<\/p>\n We pause to collectively acknowledge the world\u2019s sadness, which is our own — and to face straightforwardly what is real. As we would be a people of love and compassion, let us open ourselves to take in the pain, and respond with kindness and care. (The Liberal Pulpit<\/cite>, April 25)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n A group of UU religious professionals of color issued a statement<\/a> about responses to protests in Baltimore.<\/p>\n While we gather in solidarity with the oppressed, we are also deeply troubled by our own Unitarian Universalist Association and any religious body that has little or no response to Baltimore. . . .<\/p>\n We particularly call on the UUA to reevaluate its national prophetic voice after participating in the recent commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the events at Selma. Sanford, Ferguson, New York, Baltimore . . . these are our Selma. The time is past . . . we people of faith must gather with the beaten, the murdered and the oppressed. (A Full Day<\/cite>, April 29)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n On this week\u2019s episode of The VUU<\/cite>, the show\u2019s regulars discuss events in Ferguson, Baltimore, and beyond<\/a> with Leslie Butler MacFadyen and the Rev. David Carl Olson.<\/p>\n\n
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