[Fuusm-l] Calling all FUUSM Folks who have a sermon to share!

[Adeline Bailey]

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:
Sermon Contest: A Call for Climate Revival Preachers

*UU Climate Justice Revival - *Reimagine Together: From an Extractive Age
to a New Era!

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.

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.

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? *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.*
All submissions are due by August 1, 2024. Early submissions are most
welcome.
Five winners will be selected by August 15, 2024. Each winner will receive
$500.

*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.*

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   Please submit your sermons in writing to the Climate Revival Planning
   team by emailing: UUClimateSermonContest at uua.org

   We ask that sermons be 1,500 - 2,000 words.

   Winners will be asked to video record their sermon to be made available
   on our website for UU congregational use.

For more information on the Revival, please email uurevival at uua.org.
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