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A Call for Empathy, Mutual Aid and Action
By Dr. Betsy Leondar-Wright Millions of Americans just saw their health insurance costs skyrocket. Are any of your congregation members among them? Hundreds of thousands have lost jobs due to federal cuts to public agencies, research, DEI, refugee resettlement and green energy. Are any of your congregation members among them? Another government shutdown would threaten millions of […]
Goodbye 2025 and Welcome New Year
For social class bridgers like you, our UU Class Conversations partners, 2025 has been a truly challenging year. From the start, the optics of tech multi-billionaires standing directly behind Donald Trump during the presidential inauguration made the administration’s priorities abundantly clear. The class metrics of wealth, power and status would trump every other social class […]
Sara Morrison Neil: Steering Committee Member
I recently joined the UU Class Conversations Steering Committee. I am currently the Church Administrator and Membership Coordinator at First Parish in Framingham UU. My career has been in nonprofit administration, starting back in 1992 at the AIDS Action Committee in Boston. I also facilitate the Diversity and Equity Exploration Team at the congregation, which […]
My New Class-Instructed Patriotism
By Denise Moorehead Days after it aired, I watched a rebroadcast of the National Memorial Day Concert. The event has taken place on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol for more than three decades. It is not something I would normally watch. It was always a bit too rah, rah, armed forces anthems and military […]
