![]() ![]() The Tapestry of Faith curriculum Building Bridges, for older middle-schoolers through high school youth, explores a wide breadth of faiths in order to build both UU identity and interfaith understanding, With two workshops devoted to Islam, this program offers stories, readings, and activities that can be used in a modular way to familiarize a group (or, your family) with Muslim history and contemporary experience.įinally, are you searching for words about the UU connection to acting for social justice and resources for making it happen? Check out this page on the UUA website and an article it links to, "Nurturing a Ministry of Activism," by Rev. Included is a recorded webinarthe offers inspiration from grassroots leaders from communities at high risk and members of UU congregations that are currently taking action. The UU College of Social Justice provides an online toolkitfor getting involved with today's sanctuary and solidarity movements. An adult book from Skinner House that promotes interfaith understanding is Children of the Same God: The Historical Relationship Between Judaism, Islam and Unitarianism by Susan Ritchie. Also by Sarah Conover, Muhammad: The Story of a Prophet and Reformer engages grade schoolers through adults with the beginnings of Islam. Young children will enjoy the stories and illustrations in Ayat Jamilah, Beautiful Signs: A Treasury of Islamic Wisdom for Children and Parents, by Sarah Conover and Freda Crane find audio files of stories from this book online. They switched places and we each repeated the same.Īs I wiped the tears of strangers, I admitted I had been wrong: It mattered.įor parents and other religious educators, now is an opportune time to acquaint children, youth, and ourselves with Islam. as I whispered in her ear "It's going to be ok" she cried and hugged harder. I reached out and put my hand on her shoulder. The amendment to an anti-separatism bill designed to strengthen Frances secular values and which applies to girls under 18 has drawn outrage and prompted an online protest under the hashtag. One went to hug Linnie and thank her, and the other buried her face in her hands and sobbed. As one pair of women in hijab approached they burst into tears. We parted ways at Copley Plaza having exchanged names and stories.Īs Linnie and I merged into the periphery of the crowd, women in hijab would spot Linnie's sign and mouth “thank you” as they passed. We talked like old friends and he let us know the T stop we were heading to was closed and he led us to another and together we found our way to the protest. We asked him to tell her we were going for her. He was meeting friends at the protest and his wife was newly expecting and very tired so staying home. It was Linnie's sign, "Hands off the Hijab." He said his wife liked it. I looked to see which sign was facing him. I laughed, pointing to my signs, saying "How did you guess?" He said he'd sent a text of our sign to his wife. Linnie and I were conspicuously the only people on the T with signs, which I kept tucked by my side. After a while the man standing next to me held up his phone showing the immigration ban protest event on Facebook and asked if we were going. ![]() Linnie McGuire (center) in Boston’s Copley Square with newly met co-protestors against President Trump’s anti-Muslim ban. ![]()
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