Topic: Resilience

What’s Wrong with Resilience?

What if the very risks we face in the world today that require us to be more resilient thrive on that very resilience? Author, activist, and journalist Soraya Chemaly challenges us to rethink some of our beliefs about resilience in her thought-provoking book The Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth After Trauma. … Continue reading What’s Wrong with Resilience?

Rooted in Solidarity: UU Stories of Resistance and Resilience

This worship service draws insight, hope, and inspiration from our Unitarian, Universalist, and UU histories with select stories of how ordinary people have shown up for justice in very different ways and contexts. To borrow a phrase from the Biblical book of Hebrews, “ we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses,….”to guide … Continue reading Rooted in Solidarity: UU Stories of Resistance and Resilience