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VA tax payers and $6M of support to cigarette exporters

A friend and community activist in Montgomery County sent me an email saying that her organization may have been able to prevent Lockheed Martin from being exempted from paying taxes totaling around $450,000 for their hotel guests on its property; the taxes would instead help to replace the shortfall in human services funding.… Continue

Added by Moya Marlene Atkinson on September 30, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

First Friday with Friends

I hope many of you will add coming to church this Friday, October 1, to your start-of-weekend activities!

Beginning a little after 6, there will be a light supper served in Fellowship Hall. At 7pm in the sanctuary, Andrew Greenwood, an awesome young pianist/singer will be supporting Revs. Linda & Carlton in the First Friday Vespers service (music and inspiration).

Then at 8pm, the Coffee House begins in Fellowship Hall. We are thrilled that besides talent from UUCA, we will also… Continue

Added by Rev. Linda Olson Peebles on September 29, 2010 at 1:51pm — No Comments

The Big Event -- Sunday at 1:00 -- CONGREGATIONAL MEETING

Your presence at the congregational meeting on Sunday, at 1:00 (after second service and a free lunch) will be most welcome...and helpful...and informative. We spoke with over 500 people (kids included) in our Renewal Conversations. Come find out the comments...a report will be presented....and find out...what are our priorities? AND most importantly, please come to vote on authorizing a capital campaign, to address the Total Needs of our congregation.



This is an important step in… Continue

Added by Bill Fogarty on September 29, 2010 at 12:09am — No Comments

Oct. 2 March in DC

UU friends are working to organize the Standing on Side of Love presence at One Nation Working Together a rally on Saturday, Oct. 2 at the Lincoln Memorial. I know that it's fast approaching, so I wanted to send a quick note to alert you all that there will be a Standing on the Side of Love contingent wearing yellow shirts and carry the big yellow banner at the rally. They will meet at the Foggy Bottom/GWU… Continue

Added by Rev. Linda Olson Peebles on September 28, 2010 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

People Ask About God

I am grateful to our Rev. Carlton Smith for introducing me this morning to the 1957 sermon titled "People Ask About God" by the renowned Unitarian Minister, Dr. A. Powell Davies.



In developing my own theology as a UU, I have come to believe that people have really made the whole notion of God much too complicated. In my mind, it is very simple: No one knows whether there is a supreme being or not, so why pursue the matter? Yet, I know that I am blessed with life, that… Continue

Added by David McTaggart on September 26, 2010 at 8:48pm — No Comments

The Ten Commandments

I thought you might enjoy a couple of film clips that relate to my sermon last Sunday on "The First Commandment: You Shall Open Your Heart to the Holy." The first is a trailer from the original Ten Commandments movie with Charton Heston. The second is from Mel Brooks film, "The History of the World Part I". Enjoy.



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Added by Rev. Michael McGee on September 24, 2010 at 11:46am — No Comments

Visitors from 155 Countries to This Online Church

Happy Birthday to Our Online Church, aka "Church Without Walls."



There's now no doubt that an online presence for our church and the contribution it makes to UUism is powerful.

Visitors from 155 countries checked us out between our debut on Sept. 13, 2009 and the anniversary date this year.

From those countries there were 47,000 individuals who visited our site 99,800 times during the 12 months. They looked at about 370,000…

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Added by UUCAVA on September 23, 2010 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

The State of Black Gay America Summit

This video does a good job of illustrating why solidarity with the African American struggle must be inextricably incorporated as part of the struggle for Gay rights and also why African American leadership is essential for the entire LBGTQ movement.



Note: Sharon Lettman-Hicks is the Executive Director of the National Black Justice… Continue

Added by Becca Lovelace on September 23, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

UUCA Member Martin Ogle Headlines Arlington Event!!!

Hey UUCA Members --

As a Green Sanctuary, part of our ongoing outreach is to help promote events like this one described below.

It is part of an Arlington County Public Library announcement:



An Entrepreneurial Look at Earth and its People

When: Mon. Sept. 27, at 7:00 p.m.

Where: Arlington Central Library

Are you worried about both our economy and our impact on the Earth? Flummoxed about what to do? Two Arlington leaders - from seemingly different… Continue

Added by Laura Dely on September 21, 2010 at 2:48pm — No Comments

Managing the Older Worker -- Finally, the world of work is waking up to the value of maturity!

I think this new book from the Harvard Business School is a good thing. I've found, in general, that HBS publications are the most thoughtful, common-sensical, as-close-to-being a UU capitalist as you can be.....Just thought I'd share the description of this new book to see if it stirs anyone to comment:



Managing the Older Worker:

How to Prepare for the New Organizational Order by Peter Cappelli, Bill Novelli

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Your organization needs older…

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Added by June Herold on September 19, 2010 at 10:30pm — 3 Comments

Motts/Snapple Strike is Over!!

Hi All:

Thanks to all who commented on this request to boycott Dr.Pepper/Motts/Snapple/Canada Dry.

Sue B. -- I'd love to talk to you about why you boycotts trouble you.

And Brian F. I'd love to talk to you about your grocery store worker and union membership experience.



Below is the Motts etc. Union bulletin about the strike end below. I think it makes excellent points about why unions are important for working families and the middle class.

I don't see how our… Continue

Added by Laura Dely on September 18, 2010 at 3:21pm — No Comments

VOICE gives power to poverty

"For much of Washington's political class, the shocking news that one in seven Americans is living in poverty provoked not alarm but further debate about tax cuts for the middle class." (Fletcher, Washington Post, 9/18)



Why are politicians oblivious to this outrage? Simply because the poor have no money and thereby no power.



VOICE organizes people and money to speak for the poor and disadvantaged. Please support VOICE during… Continue

Added by David McTaggart on September 18, 2010 at 9:39am — No Comments

Standing on the Side of Neighboring Faiths

I urge everyone to click on the video "Dude, you have no Quran!" which Sana Saeed just posted. It is great, featuring the difference UU young adults - and all of us - can make!

UUs have always stood in solidarity with the notion of respect for religious traditions. It was Unitarian leadership which led to the first World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in the 1890s. Our Religious Education has long taught about the world's religions (older UUs remember "Church Across the Street" from… Continue

Added by Rev. Linda Olson Peebles on September 17, 2010 at 11:21am — No Comments

Right Livelihood Structural Violence

I'm always wanting to find ways to link our work in racial and economic justice, environmentalism, and peace. I'm inspired by this morning's Democracy Now, broadcast from Bonn, Germany, at the annual Right Livelihood Awards. An exiled Thai Buddhist activist (listed below) used a term that cuts across all these spheres, and may be a useful way to connect everything - structural violence.



I would love you to help me consider whether this concept would be useful for us. It seems to work… Continue

Added by Barbara Johnson on September 17, 2010 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

From the Board-Saying Grace, Showing Gratitude

From the Board Chair-

Saying Grace, Showing Gratitude

By Natalia (Natty) Averett

[as published in the September 2010 Arlingtarian]



The church fiscal year begins July 1, but it’s in September, when we return to two Sunday services and when many activities which are on hiatus for the summer return, that it feels that the church’s new year has begun. The church has a “first day of school” feeling. Activities get into full swing, sign-up tables abound, the new-visitor… Continue

Added by Natalia Averett on September 16, 2010 at 11:00am — 2 Comments

Observing 9-11 Anniversary

This September 11, I had a full day, of many moods, memories, and activities.



The training of our RE teachers began with a brief worship, centering ourselves as to the time and date, and all that has been lost, in the wake of the world changing event in 2001. Turning our attention to talk of "renewal", of building community with children and families, and of serving our church and wider world - all that was good response to the day.



I attended the installation celebration… Continue

Added by Rev. Linda Olson Peebles on September 15, 2010 at 6:53pm — No Comments

Got Some Rain, But ...

The County is advising all to conserve water as it has been a bit dry this summer, and looks to continue that way for a while. Hopefully, we'll get some good soakings from "tropical storms" as they pass safely out at sea this fall, but in the meantime, here are the County's water saving tips -- good for life, not only drought times.



(Note: see this article online for all of the links to outside resources at:…

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Added by Laura Dely on September 13, 2010 at 12:12pm — No Comments

Summary V.O.I.C.E. Accomplishments January-June 2010

Dental

• Organized 300+ leader action in Richmond with 18 Virginia Senate and House leaders including 3 from the budget conference that helped preserve $9 million+ for the VA dental safety net in the FY 2011 budget, insuring that thousands of low-income children and adults in the Commonwealth will have access to critical dental care services.

• Organized with Virginia Senate and House leaders and pressed the Commonwealth of Virginia to secure $79 million in TANF Emergency Funds… Continue

Added by Robert Buckman on September 11, 2010 at 9:33pm — No Comments

Learn about Community Organizing with Love this Thursday,Sept 16

The tough-love golden rule of organizing is to "Never do for others what they can do for themselves." The skill of organizing is in finding and developing leaders who will motivate disadvantaged people to take action for themselves. Organizing is relational work. People respond to the call of those they they trust, leaders with whom they have a public relationship. These truths apply to both the organization of civic communities and of faith congregations. That's right. We can use the tools of… Continue

Added by David McTaggart on September 10, 2010 at 9:27am — No Comments

9/11 Unity Walk 2010

I've worked as a journalist. I know that strife, conflict and controversy drive the news. How else could an obscure pastor of a small congregation have dominated media outlets for two weeks by threatening to publically burn copies of the Quran?



Our egos love opportunities to make ourselves right and make others wrong; to invalidate others' opinions and justify our own; to find the guilt in others' actions while excusing the hurtful things we do ourselves. Whether we as citizens… Continue

Added by Rev. Carlton Elliott Smith on September 10, 2010 at 2:53am — 3 Comments

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