“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.” -Jane Addams
How can we secure some good for others today?
“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.” -Jane Addams
How can we secure some good for others today?
It is hard to think about what a peaceful relationship means when mutual respect is absent.
How have you established mutual respect in a difficult situation?
“Justice and peace can only thrive together, never apart.” -Oscar Arias Sánchez
How have you experienced people attempting to separate justice and peace?
“Kindness is sometimes uncomfortable, because it requires us to not stay comfortable…. Kindness doesn’t sit still.” -Kimberley Debus, from a UUWorld Article entitled Kindness over Niceness
When have you made yourself uncomfortable in service to a larger good?
In her sermon to CLF this week, Aisha Hauser challenged us to understand the difference between niceness, which smooths over conflict to create a surface-level peace, and kindness, which cares, acts, and often disrupts the status quo.
How do you understand the difference between “nice” and “kind?”