We are in the final stages of our book on the past 15 years of anti-racism in the Unitarian Universalist Association. Here are the themes that are emerging for us--please give us your thoughts,additions and comments.

Monday, May 29, 2006

UU theological grounding is for anti-racism emerging (theme four)

4. The initial theological grounding for the work was not given as much attention and yet what has emerged is the importance of this as a theological issue and as an issue linked to theology.
• We need to reclaim universal salvation as a core concept
• Embracing something larger than the will of one individual is key to this work—i.e. the “creative good” of a community
• Evil as “othering” (Jeffrey Means)
• Importance of knowing and reckoning with our own history
• “Soul Work”, the work of Paul Rasor, Thandeka and others has deepened the theological issue.

1 Comments:

Blogger Robin Edgar said...

Well the "othering" of yours truly by intolerant and abusive U*Us is certainly evil.

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