The Sweet Potato
February 23, 2021 |
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What religion could this be? United Church of Christ? The Satanic Temple? Who knows... |
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Thanks for reading "The Sweet Potato," the Young Adult Revival Networks bi-monthly roundup of online UU young adult ministries, media, and more. Bold items are new or updated.
News & Updates YARN Twitter and Instagram! UU Theology for Young Adults SURVEY - UU Virtual Religious Community during COVID-19 Application for GROW Fellowship 2021 UUYA Social Channels
Events - 2/28 - FUUA Young Adult Worship
- 3/2 - UUYA Lay Leaders Call
- 3/6 - Learn the R.A.C.E. method of dialogue for dismantling racism
- 3/8 - Gathered Here
- 3/9 - UU YAM Professionals Call
- 3/10 - Black Unitarian Universalist Young Adult Gathering
- 3/13 - UUYA History Discussion Sessions
- 3/21 - YARN Worship Series - March 2021
- 4/9-11 - Intergenerational Spring Seminar
- 4/16-18 - Power Shift 2021
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YARN Twitter and Instagram! |
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We are now on Twitter and Instagram. Please follow us on both platforms and help spread the word about our effort to rebuild the continental UU young adult network: |
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UU Theology for Young Adults |
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UU San Francisco is offering this class for young adults. There are just a few spots left they would love to fill, so sign up today! UU Theology for Young Adults Mondays 7:00 - 8:30pm PST March 1 thru April 5 What is theology? And why does it matter? How might we create Unitarian Universalist theologies that support our growth and connection as individuals and as a community? Join ministerial intern Meg McGuire and young adult coordinator Joe Chapot for a six session class specifically for young adults, where we will reflect and explore our individual beliefs, values and commitments, and ask how they fit into Unitarian Universalism, both as it has been and as it could be. The main idea we will be working with is theology as a house and each week we will look at a different part of this building; with the nature of the divine as the foundation, what holds us together as the walls, the roof being what shelters us in times of strife, and the door is where we come from and where we’re going. |
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SURVEY - UU Virtual Religious Community during COVID-19 |
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Our friend and famous CONline organizer Ivy Breivogel has a survey they’re asking everyone to complete. Hello! My name is Ivy, and I am a senior Sociology/Anthropology student at Warren Wilson College. I was raised UU and am a current member of two congregations. I am currently planning my Capstone Thesis project on how Unitarian Universalist religion and its members’ relationships with their religiosity/spirituality are changing during the COVID-19 pandemic and consequent move to virtual events and community. I want to know how your congregation and organized events are changing, but also how the ways you think about UU and your relationship with your faith are changing throughout this pandemic. If you are willing to share your experiences and thoughts with me, please fill out this survey. There is an option at the end to opt in to a follow-up survey - I encourage you to do this! Interviews will allow you much more flexibility to be able to express your perspective better, and will allow me to learn a lot more. If you want to participate in an interview but not the initial survey, that’s fine too! Just email me at ibreivogel.f18@warren-wilson.edu, and feel free to reach out with any questions, comments, or concerns at any time. |
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Application for GROW Fellowship 2021 |
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Deadline is this Sunday, February 28! Thank you for your interest in joining us for our GROW Fellowship, a collaboration between the UU College of Social Justice and the UUA's Thrive Program for Young Adults of Color. Building on past sessions of GROW (Grounded and Resilient Organizer Workshops) and amidst the challenges of the current pandemic, we continue to adapt to a new format, in which we will gather weekly online from the new moon in March (mid-month) through August 2021. This offering is designed to equip 20 UU young adults of color and white UU young adults (ages 18-35) with the frameworks, spiritual grounding, and community to engage in justice work within and beyond our Unitarian Universalist faith. In a few different touch points throughout the months, we’ll explore topics such as transformative approaches to governance, time, conflict, imagination and economy/ecology. The fellows will come together to learn community organizing skills from bold, grounded leaders, and to craft strategic visions for our ongoing justice work. A stipend will be available to all who are accepted into the program and who commit to a shared level of participation, averaging attendance at 75% of our group gatherings. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until February 15th. We will follow up with all applicants by February 28th and begin our weekly justice workouts on Monday, March 15th, continuing to meet Mondays at 8pm EST for the duration of the program. Please email info@uucsj.org if you have any questions. |
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Discord: Join the growing UU young adult Discord sever and connect with your faith peers across the world. Email yarn@uusf.org and we'll send you an invite.
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Sunday February 286:00pm CT (8ET, 5PT) Zoom Password: Chalice
Live Captions available Come for a monthly casual interactive small group worship hosted by First UU Austin! This month you’re invited to bring a sacred object with you to worship and be prepared to share a bit about it. The theme is currently TBD, you can check our calendar for updates closer to the event. |
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Tuesday, March 2 8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT If you are a Unitarian Universalist, a young adult (ages 18 to 30s,) and lead in any capacity within our faith movement, then please join us for the first of a hopefully monthly call. From serving on Boards or Committees, at local, regional or continental levels, whether lay or professional or seminary, any UUYA leaders are invited for an hour of sharing, collaboration, triaging, visioning and networking. And to be explicit, you do not have to working on young adult ministry to join us! Email uuyarn@uusf.org for more information. Hosted by Joe Chapot, Ministerial Assistant and Young Adult Coordinator at First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco |
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Wednesday, March 3 8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT We are a group of privileged UUs working together to dismantle white supremacy and oppression in ourselves and the world around us. We read literature and listen to podcasts together, talk with each other about what we see and what is happening in our own lives, and hold community to support one another. We meet at 8pm ET on the first Wednesday of every month. If you are interested in joining us, please join our GroupMe to get the meeting Zoom links, other information for upcoming meetings, and to engage with other people in the group. |
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Learn the R.A.C.E. Method of Dialogue for Dismantling Racism |
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Saturdays, March 6 & 13
2:00pm ET/ 11:00am PT Brought to you by the Canadian Unitarian Council Join Dr. David Campt for a 2-part workshop (Mar 6 and 13) that will prepare you to use the groundbreaking R.A.C.E. Method of Dialogue to engage in transformative conversations with friends, family, neighbors and colleagues around issues of systemic racism. This 4 hour workshop is broken down into 2 segments. Session 1 (on Mar 6th; 2-4 pm EST) will cover the tenets of unconscious bias and how confession is key to inviting others into learning. Session 2 (Mar 13th; 2-4pm EST) will refine skills for using storytelling as a method of persuasion. When you register here you will automatically be signed up for both sessions. Be ready for a truly hands-on and practical training that will help you feel prepared and confident moving forward. No prior skills or expertise required. All are welcome. |
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Monday, March 8
8:00pm ET/ 5:00pm PT Join other UU 18-35-year-olds on Zoom (a video-conferencing platform) for sharing of joys and sorrows, deeper check-ins, prayerful reflections, and an opportunity to process the events of our lives with a spiritually grounded community. Each month we are joined by a member of the Young Adult Pastoral Care Team. The global pandemic has made this virtual gathering place more valuable than ever. While so much in our lives is unknown and unknowable, we can find comfort in familiar rituals and faces. By sharing our joys, our concerns, our sorrows, and our gratitudes, we know ourselves to be held in a loving community. Exploring the themes and spiritual practices helps us each remember our own creativity and resilience. We are all in this together, a part of a larger story. These are drop-in style gatherings, so you don’t need to sign up in advance and there is no fee. On the days you want to attend, just settle into a comfortable spot with your computer or smartphone, sign in to Zoom at the scheduled time, and bring your whole self for the hour and a quarter. |
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Black Unitarian Universalist Young Adult Gathering |
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Wednesday, March 10 7:00pm ET / 4:00pm PT Register to Attend Black Unitarian Universalist Young Adults (BUUYA) across North America will gather on Wednesday, March 10 to hang out and get to know each other. This gathering is the result of three BUUYAs who started meeting in Fall 2020 thanks to YARN. They loved being in a space that is exclusively Unitarian Universalist, young adult, and BLACK! Now they want to share it with everyone like them. Practically, there will be a chalice lighting, a check in, and participants will spend time discovering what the BUUYA communal needs are. We look forward to seeing you! Please share with Young Adults in your UU circles. By and for Black UU young adults. Organized by Donovan Hayden, Mya Wade-Harper, and Kamila Jacobs. A ministry of the Young Adult Revival Network. If you can't attend this meeting but want to participate in the future, email yarn@uusf.org and you will be connected with the BUUYA group. |
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UUYA History Discussion Sessions |
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Saturday, March 13 at 1:00pm ET/ 10:00am PT
Sunday March 28 at 4:30pmET/ 1:30pm PT
Register To Receive Reminders Black Join Emily McKown and YARN for two discussion sessions focused on the history of Unitarian Universalist young adults. Emily McKown, Executive Director of the Channing Murray Foundation and UU young adult, will be delivering a major speech on the topic in April. She reached out to YARN to see if we could help her out, as the history of UUYAs is not properly nor comprehensively documented. We organized these two sessions for anyone, young adult or not, to join and discuss the full story of UUYAs. If you want to attend but can’t make/miss a session, Emily McKown can be emailed at: channingmurraydirector@gmail.com |
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YARN Worship Series - March 2021 |
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Sunday, March 21
8:00pm ET/ 5:00pm PT
Save the Date!
More Details Coming Soon JOIN THE WORSHIP TEAM. YARN organizes a monthly worship by and for UU young adults, held on the third Sunday of the month. Join us for a young adult worship service on Sunday, February 21 at 5pm Pacific Time / 8pm Eastern Time! If you want to be apart of the Worship Planning Team, email rbiggs@uuma.org. |
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Intergenerational Spring Seminar |
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April 9-11 Online Join the Intergenerational Spring Seminar for Food Justice, April 9–11th! We encourage young adults (and people of all ages!) who are passionate about climate justice and food justice to come to the UU@United Nations intergenerational Spring Seminar: “All In for Climate Justice: Food Equity and Sustainability.” Held virtually April 9–11th, we’ll explore the intersections and impacts of food injustice, both from the lens of indigenous and frontline communities, and from a world organizational lens. Hear from activists and change-makers, conspire with small groups of UUs for community-based action, and ground your faith in this movement for healing and justice. Spring Seminar centers the experience of young people, both in its planning and presentation, believing that accessible and interactive learning and growth is crucial to strengthening our intergenerational faith movement. This year, young adults are invited to a Young Adult Drop-in space on Friday afternoon before the seminar kicks off, hosted by Amelia Diehl (UU YAs for Climate Justice) and Rev. Stevie Carmody (UUA)! Come get grounded in community. Registration is sliding scale and due March 18th. Click through! |
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April 16-18 New Orleans or Online, TBA Power Shift 2021 is a massive youth climate convergence taking place in New Orleans April 16-18 (but may become a virtual convergence spanning additional days -- the announcement will come in February). The convergence will bring together climate, environmental and social justice communities for training, strategizing, panel discussions and more. If you are a Youth or Young Adult interested in attending, sign up with the UUYACJ cohort! Full cost is $65; scholarships available. |
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