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By Denny Rodgers, Racial Justice Ministry If you are of the age when you must take Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) from your IRAs, you can elect to make Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCD) to eligible co-organizations like, for example, our church. Your broker will send checks directly to them, and you will not be taxed on … Continue reading A Win-Win Way of Supporting Racial Justice Causes
By Victoria Locane, Racial Justice Ministry At a recent Racial Justice Ministry (RJM) meeting, the team came together to answer the question: How do we show others the mission of UUCWC? Inspired by other advocacy groups, we were inspired to show the UUCWC mission in the world via a T-shirt. We thought that, as a group, seeing … Continue reading Wearing Our Mission: New UUCWC T-Shirts Amplify Our Advocacy and Community
by Susan Irgang, Congregational Administrator Don’t ever think that one person can’t make a difference. Our Racial Justice Ministry (RJM) noted that Ewing Township had not passed a resolution endorsing the enactment of the New Jersey Reparations Task Force Act. On behalf of RJM, Ewing resident Denny Rodgers decided to do something. In December 2023, … Continue reading The Power of Persistence and Perseverance
The Racial Justice Ministry is hosting Listening Circles (listed below) to give friends and members the opportunity to discuss the proposed Covenant related to the 8th Principle. At the meeting where we discussed and approved this Principle in 2018 there was discussion about what it means to hold ourselves ‘accountable’ to this commitment. We invite … Continue reading Listening Circles: Proposed UUCWC Covenant based on our 2018 commitment to the Eighth Principle
by Regina Podhorin Zilinski The Racial Justice Ministry (RJM) and Adult Faith Engagement will jointly present a three session training and deep discussion forum on reparations starting in late February and ending in April. The issue of reparations was chosen as a strategic issue area by RJM for this next year in collaboration with the … Continue reading Reparations – Moving Toward Saying the Word
by Regina Podhorin Zilinski The Racial Justice Ministry (RJM) recently hosted a speaker from the Unitarian Universalist Faith Action New Jersey (UUFANJ) Reparations Task Force to update us on their activities and plans to move forward the conversation about reparations in New Jersey. As a result of this conversation, we have decided to engage more … Continue reading Racial Justice Ministry Considers Reparations
by Geri Koblis, for the Racial Justice Ministry If you have ever taken an online quiz or survey which presents multiple choice answers and asks you to fill in a number to indicate your most important choice to your least, you have done Ranked Choice Voting (RCV). In some states such as New Jersey, this … Continue reading Ranked Choice Voting and the 8th Principle
Please join the Racial Justice Ministry and congregational allies in becoming a learning community about dismantling racism. A list of resources for this work can be found at: https://www.eddiemoorejr.com/21daychallenge We will be hosting open discussions on Thursday January 20th and 27th for anyone who wants to find new resources or discuss something there read, heard or experienced in … Continue reading Racial Justice Ministry Events Jan/Feb 2022
Save the Date! Racial Justice Ministry (RJM) Discussion Forum – January 11, 2022 7pm Join the meeting on January 11th at 7pm here. RJM is offering an online discussion of two resources RJM members recently found helpful in our antiracism journey. Join us to discuss these resources and kick off a 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building … Continue reading Racial Justice Ministry Forum 1/11/22
The Racial Justice Ministry (RJM) has developed a plan for 2022 to engage congregants in the communal and individual work of antiracism. We know many of you long for opportunities to both work together as well as have resources for individually staying abreast of new insights into antiracism work. As a result, we are announcing … Continue reading Racial Justice Ministry Antiracism Learning/Allyship Opportunities for 2022
