Our fates, human, animal, and elemental, are bound together. When you harm the land, you are literally damaging a piece of the universal whole that you inhabit. This is not a simple religious metaphor, but an invitation into faithful practice. This week we center faith leaders and communities who are strong examples of living this theology through action.
As we head into a season full of celebrations like Mother’s Day, graduations, and Father’s Day, many
Colonial powers branded Indigenous peoples as primitive “savages” precisely because their knowledge systems threatened economies built on ownership, extraction, and domination. The erasure was intentional, and it was thorough. What has survived has done so because people have carried it in their bodies, their ceremonies, their languages, and their children. This week we return to those who keep sacred knowledge alive.
This month, we ask how we sustain ourselves and one another not through toxic positivity, but through honest, steady acts of courage, care, and imagination.
April invites us into reverence. It is a time to remember that the Earth is not a resource to be consumed; it is a living web of relationships to which we belong. Across cultures and faith traditions, caring for the land has always been inseparable from caring for one another.
Thu, Apr 30, 2026: Host: Jewell F
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These leaders challenged rigid systems and cultural norms that had kept generations before them suffering in silence. By living openly, organizing boldly, and loving themselves and their communities fiercely, they expanded the capacity for what it means to be human.
Focus: Whose stories live within me, and how do they guide my becoming?
We carry stories in our bones. Through guided reflection and gentle ritual, we honor ancestors (biological and chosen) and consider how memory shapes identity, resilience, and responsibility.
We welcome all Unitarian Universalist seminarians and those in the ministerial formation process, at any stage of the journey.