Scott Grey | July 8, 2011
On Tuesday, July 5th, we screened the movie “Home.” This is an incredibly beautiful and moving film about the state of our planet and what we are doing to it (and what we can still do to save it.) The entire film is photographed from the air and presents a very different perspective on the [...]
Scott Grey | March 2, 2011
The First Tuesday Social Action Film Festival screened the film “Moving to Mars” on March 1st. Moving to Mars follows a group of Burmese refugees as they relocate to England. A group from the Dallas community of Burmese Karen refugees joined us and shared their perspectives as well as their musical talent. More information on [...]
Amy Williams | November 23, 2010
Last Sunday we distributed collection boxes for Guest at Your Table (additional boxes are in the pass-through on the table). Money collected goes to doing the work of Unitarian Universalists nationally and internationally. A sampling of people helped by these donations are: families rebuilding their homes and communities having returned to their villages in Uganda [...]
Scott Grey | October 12, 2010
A call to action: Recently we have seen a lot about gay teen suicides. Students who are bullied by their peers but no one stood up for. Come stand up for the kids, teens and young adults. Join the Dallas Gay and Lesbian Alliance along with other GLBT groups and many straight allies in a [...]
Scott Grey | October 6, 2010
Miss HIV Our co-sponsors for this film include the Dallas Peace Center. Miss HIV follows the journey of two HIV-positive women who enter the MissHIV contest in Botswana. It compares what is happening in Botswana, where half of all pregnant women have HIV, and Uganda, a country which has experienced the largest reductions of new [...]
Ian | September 23, 2010
Last week I painted the world, and that weekend I attended the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade 2010. This parade, the largest in Texas, has been held for the last twenty-seven years, and is Dallas’s annual gay pride parade. This year, as in others, NTAUUS (the North Texas Association of Unitarian Universalist Societies) had a [...]
Scott Grey | September 16, 2010
A special presentation was co-sponsored by the ACLU of Texas and the UUCOC on September 15th, 2010. A recording of the presentation is now available here as an MP3 file. RT 32:42 A good turnout greeted American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas’ Executive Director Terri Burke. Ms. Burke addressed the State Board of Education’s [...]
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