{"id":9114,"date":"2025-12-27T00:24:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T07:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/?post_type=uu_services&#038;p=9114"},"modified":"2025-12-27T00:25:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T07:25:27","slug":"building-a-new-way","status":"publish","type":"uu_services","link":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/services\/building-a-new-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Building A New Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>We gather this Sunday to explore what it truly means to\u00a0<em>build a new way<\/em>\u2014in our lives, our congregation, and our world. Inspired by the Unitarian Universalist commitment to collective liberation, we ask: What does it take to move from aspiration to embodiment? From singing the words to living the work? Together we will seek courage, clarity, and creativity as we imagine and co-create a future grounded in justice, belonging, and shared power. Let us build the world we dream about, one choice, one practice, one day at a time.<\/h3>\n<h3>Our reading is by Howard Thurman, from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Meditations of the Heart:<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cAt times when the strain is heaviest upon us,<br \/>\nAnd our tired nerves cry out in many-tongued pain<br \/>\nBecause the flow of love is choked far below the deep recesses of the heart,<br \/>\nWe seek with cravings firm and hard<br \/>\nThe strength to break the dam<br \/>\nThat we may live again in love&#8217;s warm stream.<br \/>\nUntil, at least, we are restored and made anew!\u201d<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We gather this Sunday to explore what it truly means to\u00a0build a new way\u2014in our lives, our congregation, and our world. Inspired by the Unitarian Universalist commitment to collective liberation, we ask: What does it take to move from aspiration to embodiment? From singing the words to living the work? Together we will seek courage, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/services\/building-a-new-way\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Building A New Way<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"uu_service_speaker":[161],"uu_service_topics":[],"class_list":["post-9114","uu_services","type-uu_services","status-publish","hentry","uu_service_speaker-rev-anthony-mtuaswa-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/9114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/uu_services"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/9114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9117,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/9114\/revisions\/9117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"uu_service_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_speaker?post=9114"},{"taxonomy":"uu_service_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_topics?post=9114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}