<div dir="ltr"><div>With Green Sanctuary taking the lead, FUUSM is registered for the Climate Justice Revival, which takes place at FUUSM on September 28 and 29. In preparation for the weekend event, the Revival planners are offering a Sermon Contest. It's open to anyone who wants to participate! Here's the info:</div><div>
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<h2 style="text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap">Sermon Contest: A Call for Climate Revival Preachers</h2><p style="text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-sqsrte-text-highlight"><strong>UU Climate Justice Revival - </strong>Reimagine Together: From an Extractive Age to a New Era! </span></p><p class="gmail-" style="white-space:pre-wrap">The UU Climate Justice Revival is sweeping the land with inspiring collective worship, creative learning, new frameworks at the intersection of climate and justice, and the chance to weave together the threads that have always linked our deepest commitments. Unitarian Universalists will gather to dig into the connections between social justice, racial justice, and environmental ministry. Congregations will receive training and materials to hold facilitated dialogues, dynamic worship, religious education, and advocacy all designed to transform our congregations through climate justice—September 28 & 29, 2024. </p><p class="gmail-" style="white-space:pre-wrap">Together, we can cultivate small, critical connections that nourish relationships and collaboration amongst social justice teams; build capacity to hold complexity in our congregations; collectively craft and embrace a shared vision; and chart a course for the future we want to build together with love at the center of our actions. </p>
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<p class="gmail-" style="white-space:pre-wrap">Ministers and lay leaders alike, are encouraged to submit a sermon reimagining climate justice for a new era and bringing a spirit of revival and renewal to our work. Imagine that it's 2050 and we've achieved all of our wildest hopes for collective liberation. What is present in that re-imagined reality? What have our values led us to collectively abolish or move away from? The modern prison abolitionist movement imagines a future without police and prisons, drawing on deep convictions, faith, imagination, and hope to do so. What is the parallel vision for the climate justice movement that avoids the risks of prioritizing short-term gains or the distractions that so often divide our focus? How would our world transform if love was at the center of our climate actions and collective liberation were upheld as a uniting goal across all of the movement spaces that matter most? <strong>Holding this vision at the forefront of our efforts, all sermon submissions should intentionally address climate as an intersectional justice issue. We have shifted our parameters slightly so the sermons are clearly climate justice-focused.</strong></p>
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<h4 style="text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-sqsrte-text-highlight">All submissions are due by August 1, 2024.</span> Early submissions are most welcome.</h4>
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<h4 style="text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-sqsrte-text-highlight">Five winners</span> will be selected by August 15, 2024. Each winner will receive <span class="gmail-sqsrte-text-highlight">$500</span>.</h4>
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<p class="gmail-" style="white-space:pre-wrap"><strong>This sermon contest is a means to build the Unitarian Universalist movement’s capacity to preach about climate justice. Winning sermons will be distributed for congregational use to promote and support climate justice preaching.</strong></p>
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<p class="gmail-" style="white-space:pre-wrap">Please submit your sermons in writing to the Climate Revival Planning team by emailing: <a href="mailto:UUClimateSermonContest@uua.org">UUClimateSermonContest@uua.org</a></p><p class="gmail-" style="white-space:pre-wrap">We ask that sermons be 1,500 - 2,000 words.</p><p class="gmail-" style="white-space:pre-wrap">Winners will be asked to video record their sermon to be made available on our website for UU congregational use.</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-sqsrte-text-color--custom" style="color:rgb(75,75,75)">For more information on the Revival, please email </span><span class="gmail-sqsrte-text-highlight"><a href="mailto:uurevival@uua.org" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-sqsrte-text-color--custom" style="color:rgb(75,75,75)">uurevival@uua.org</span></a></span><span class="gmail-sqsrte-text-color--custom" style="color:rgb(75,75,75)">.</span></p>
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