Many people these days are frustrated about the contentious, divisive nature of civic discourse, especially what they saw and heard during this past election year.\u00a0 They are fearful about what the future might bring.\u00a0 However, they\u2019d rather not spend their time endlessly doom scrolling online sources of news.\u00a0 They prefer to channel their concerns about society in more positive directions.<\/p>\n
This approach applies to many members of the Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.\u00a0 They feel compassion for the people\u00a0in our community (and beyond)\u00a0who struggle economically.\u00a0 But they don\u2019t simply stand by idly, hoping our newly elected officials will come up with legislation to fix what\u2019s not working.\u00a0 They look around to see how they themselves might be of help, and they step up to do what they can to make a positive difference.<\/p>\n
At Sunday morning SUUF services, attendees gather with other caring \u00a0people to cheerfully learn about, discuss, and take constructive action regarding a variety of concrete local issues that need attention.<\/p>\n
At SUUF they also have the opportunity to participate in several mid-week gatherings to discuss meaningful films, informative books, perplexing ethical dilemmas, social justice campaigns, plans for interfaith community events, ways to\u00a0handle the challenges of aging, arrangements for lively social activities, and other topics that they find stimulating, worthwhile, and uplifting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Many people these days are frustrated about the contentious, divisive nature of civic discourse, especially what they saw and heard during this past election year.\u00a0 They are fearful about what the future might bring.\u00a0 However, they\u2019d rather not spend their time endlessly doom scrolling online sources of news.\u00a0 They prefer to channel their concerns about … Continue reading How UUs Channel Their Civic Energy (#125)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8934,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703\/revisions\/8934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}