Author: Michael Tino

“For it isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

How have you worked at peace?

“Peace is always beautiful.” ― Walt Whitman

How have you experienced beauty and peace together? 

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” -Mother Teresa

What spiritual practices help you remember that we belong to each other?

History has shown us that time and time and time again, when the masses succeed in dehumanizing whoever is deemed the “other,” this has resulted in horrors perpetrated to those who are oppressed. -Aisha Hauser (CLF)

How can we resist forces of dehumanization?

I believe that our job as Unitarian Universalists is to love loudly. Louder than the hate in the world. Louder than the brokenness, the despair, and the darkness. We have to love so loud that everything else sounds like white-noise. -Tanner Linden

How do you love loudly?