Racial Justice

Application for Community Outreach Ministry Team Project Funds

MISSION
Justice can be defined as love made public.

​We focus on how to dismantle white dominant culture by expanding our individual and congregational capacity to center relationship and love as foundational to our work in the world. We see this as the first step before engaging in the sometimes challenging work required to achieve racial justice. The Racial Justice Ministry Team brings the double helix to life, integrating spiritual and antiracism practices within, among, and beyond us to step into courageous action.

PURPOSE
The Racial Justice Ministry Team will:

1. Create opportunities for people to deepen awareness and understanding of the dominant culture’s systems of white supremacy and oppression (within, among, and beyond us) and take action to dismantle them.
2. Be a voice and advocate for antiracism, multiculturalism, and economic justice, which are deeply ingrained in our Unitarian Universalist faith.
3. Take action and commit to racial justice in the wider community.

​If you would like to get connected to the Racial Justice Ministry Team, please email Maura Williams at ​[email protected].

​Unity Church Civil Rights Pilgrimage to Alabama

Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country.   ​This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.     -- Thurgood Marshall

In support of Unity's Ends Statements, please join the Racial Justice Community Outreach Ministry Team, May 12-16, 2027, for a pilgrimage to visit the heart and soul of America’s Civil Rights Movement. Pilgrims will meet in Birmingham on a Wednesday and visit Montgomery and Selma before departing from Birmingham on Sunday afternoon. 

The pilgrimage will be led by the Living Legacy Project based in Richmond, VA. Interested? Email Clover Earl at [email protected].

​Moving from Guilt to Activation: ​Owning Our Racism

Four Wednesdays: October 14, 21, 28 and November 11 
7:10-8:45 p.m. | Ames Chapel
Topics include: The Masks We Wear, The Necessity of Discomfort, Expanding Our Heart Center
Unity’s Racial Justice Team will follow last year’s Beloved Community Staff Team exploration of The Interconnected Roots of Oppression and expand on Unity’s Double Helix model with a series of Wellspring Wednesday experiences. Interconnected Roots taught us how racial capitalism informs political, economic and social systems. Moving from Guilt to Activation: Owning Our Racism will help us recognize and reckon with somatic dimensions of our white racist heritage. Circle conversations will be used to share insights that potentially “break us open and allow us to be transformed.” Follow-up programming on activation will be offered in early 2027. Please attend two fall sessions in preparation for spring sessions. 

The Circle of Peace Movement

The Circle of Peace Movement, a community partner of Unity's Racial Justice Community Outreach Ministry Team, is a pathway to racial healing and peaceful communities. It works by creating a safe space where people come together on a regular basis to share a meal and engage in respectful conversation. Through circle, we come to understand and care for one another, and find hope and strength to transform our communities.