Category: Social Justice

Poets in Resistance Again!—A Reading and Rally for Justice

The TOLUUC Social Justice Committee is proud to present Poets in Resistance Again!—A Reading and Rally for Justice at church, 5603 Bull Valley Road in McHenry on Saturday January 11, 2025 from 7-10 pm featuring outstanding poets from McHenry County and the surrounding region representing a wide range of voices and styles from communities now … Continue reading Poets in Resistance Again!—A Reading and Rally for Justice

UUs- We Show Up

Each month starting in September we will offer an opportunity to live out our values in the community alongside our Prairie Circle UU Congregation friends. Our first event is Saturday, September 21st. We will be led on a canoe/kayak paddling trip down the Nippersink Creek through the McHenry Conservation District’s beautiful Glacial Park. Along the way we … Continue reading UUs- We Show Up

2024 Faithify Campaign for Compassion For Campers

As temperatures plummet here in McHenry County, IL, the homeless and unhoused are still sleeping outside, in cars, or in unheated spaces like storage lockers, garages, and vacant buildings. Compassion for Campers, a ministry of Tree of Life, will once again be distributing critical survival equipment at the Community Resource Day at Willow Crystal Lake, … Continue reading 2024 Faithify Campaign for Compassion For Campers

Because you asked…

Over the past week I have received many inquiries about activist Valarie Kaur and the video clip of her speech from a 2016 Watch Night service that I included in our Tree of Life worship service on Sunday January 28th. 

A Look at the Real Effects of the Pre-Trial Fairness Act

On Wednesday, December 6, 2023, at 6:00pm, Tree of Life Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 5603 Bull Valley Road in McHenry, is hosting a public forum examining the history of the campaign to pass the Illinois Pre-Trial Fairness Act and how it actually is being implemented in the criminal justice system despite strong opposition.