Media Roundup: Congregations Engage with Their Communities

Media Roundup: Congregations Engage with Their Communities

Unitarian Universalist congregations in the news.

Staff Writer

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Learn more about how First Unitarian Church of Louisville, Kentucky, protected protesters marching for justice for Breonna Taylor from police in riot gear. (AP News, 10/1/20, WLKY, 10/27/20; see “Sanctuary for Change,” page 30)

UU congregations in Columbia, Missouri, and Amherst,Massachusetts, opened their buildings for use as homeless shelters this winter.(Missourian, 10/29/20; WWLP, 10/21/20)

The UU Society of Bangor, Maine, has hosted a drive-by food collection for the past year, which had gathered 2,000 pounds of food as of early November. (WABI, 11/8/20)

After leaders of UUs ofCharlottesville, Virginia, raised concerns about police racially profiling a member, the local police chief called for them to “apologize or to be terminated.” (Charlottesville Tomorrow, 12/10/20)

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