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1 Stefanie Dazio, Colleen Slevin, and Larry Fenn, “Frequent shootings put US mass killings on a record pace,” AP News, 10 October 2023, https://apnews.com/article/mass-killings-record-pace-2023-d685a6cd67e0f449f3f9d1d8713d451c.
2 Logan S. Casey, Sari L. Reisner, Mary G. Finding, Robert J. Blendon, John M. Benson, Justin M. Sayde, and Carolyn Miller, “Discrimination in the United States: Experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Americans,” Health Services Research, 54 Suppl 2 (2019): 1454–66, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31659745/.
3 Jeffrey M. Jones, “U.S. Church Membership Falls below Majority for First Time,” Gallup.com, 31 May 2023, https://news.gallup.com/poll/341963/church-membership-falls-below-majority-first-time.aspx.
4 Those who died in the Club Q mass shooting: Raymond Green Vance, Ashley Paugh, Daniel Aston, Kelly Loving, and Derrick Rump.
5 Elliot Wenzler, Olivia Prentzel, and Jennifer Brown, “How the Deadly Shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs Unfolded,” The Colorado Sun, November 23, 2022, https://coloradosun.com/2022/11/23/club-q-shooting-what-happened/.
6 "2022/23 All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church Congregational Record."
7 “The Year in Pictures 2022,” New York Times, December 19, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/world/year-in-pictures.html.
8 Veronica Penney, “Colorado Breaks Mass Shooting Record as Gun Deaths Rise,” Colorado Public Radio News, 9 December 2022, https://www.cpr.org/2022/12/08/colorado-break-mass-shooting-record-as-gun-deaths-rise/.
9 Josh Margolin and Teddy Grant, “Threats against the LGBTQIA + Community Intensifying: Department of Homeland Security,” ABC News, 15 May 2023, https://abcnews.go.com/US/threats-lgbtqia-community-intensifying-department-homeland-security/story?id=99338137.
10 Associated Press, “Canada Issues Travel Advisory Warning over U.S. States’ LGBTQ + Laws,” NPR News, 1 September 2023, https://www.npr.org/2023/09/01/1197169683/canada-issues-travel-advisory-warning-over-u-s-states-lgbtq-laws.
11 “LGBT Rights,” Human Rights Watch, 20 July 2023, https://www.hrw.org/topic/lgbt-rights.
12 Jones, “U.S. Church Membership."
13 Pew Research Center, “‘Nones’ On the Rise,” Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project, 9 October 2012, https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2012/10/09/nones-on-the-rise/.
14 Gretchen Maune, Michael J. Crumpler, Chris Tompkins, and Danya Ruttenberg, “Welcoming Congregations,” UUA.org, 6 August 2020, https://www.uua.org/lgbtq/welcoming/program.
15 UUA Commission on Institutional Change, “Widening the Circle of Concern Report,” UUA.org, June 2020, https://www.uua.org/files/pdf/w/widening_the_circle-text_with_covers.pdf.
16 John A. Buehrens and Rebecca Ann Parker, A House for Hope: The Promise of Progressive Religion for the Twenty-first Century (Boston: Beacon, 2011).
17 Unitarian Universalist Association, Singing the Journey (Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association, 2005), #1028.
18 Susan J. Ritchie, “The Flaming Chalice,” UUA.org, 8 May 2019, https://www.uua.org/beliefs/who-we-are/chalice/flaming-chalice.
19 This quotation is also attributed to Buckminster Fuller: R. Buckminster Fuller, “God Is a Verb, Not a Noun,” brainyquote.com, 2001, https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/r_buckminster_fuller_105372.
20 David Smith, “What It’s like Being America’s First Openly Gay Governor,” The Guardian, April 5, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/05/jared-polis-colorado-governor-openly-gay-interview.
21 Loretta Pyles, Progressive Community Organizing: Reflective Practice in a Globalizing World (New York: Routledge, 2014), 157.
22 Carrie Doehring, The Practice of Pastoral Care: A Postmodern Approach (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2015), xxiv.
23 Jacqueline J. Lewis and John Janka, Ten Essential Strategies for Becoming a Multiracial Congregation (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2018), 129.
24 Buehrens and Parker, House for Hope, 101.
25 Unitarian Universalist Association, “Justice & Inclusion,” UUA.org, 1 September 2021, https://www.uua.org/justice.
26 Everett Howe, “William Ellery Channing,” The Humanist Seminarian, 5 April 2017, https://humanistseminarian.com/tag/william-ellery-channing/#:∼:text=Channing%20argued%20that%20we%20humans,purified%20and%20enlarged%20to%20infinity.%E2%80%9D.
27 Buehrens and Parker, House for Hope, 96.
28 Buehrens and Parker, House for Hope, 43.
29 WJP, “Homepage,” Women & Justice Project, 27 January 2023, https://womenandjusticeproject.org/.
30 Parker J. Palmer, A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life: Welcoming the Soul and Weaving Community in a Wounded World (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2004), 56.
31 Unitarian Universalist Association, “Unitarian Universalism’s Seven Principles,” UUA.org, 19 November 2020, https://www.uua.org/beliefs/what-we-believe/principles.
32 UUA Commission on Institutional Change, “Widening the Circle of Concern Report,” UUA.org, June 2020, https://www.uua.org/files/pdf/w/widening_the_circle-text_with_covers.pdf.
33 Lewis and Janka, Ten Essential Strategies, 41.
34 Elliott Sylvester, “The Trevor Project’s Annual National Survey Reveals Upward Trend in Suicidal Thoughts Among LGBTQ Youth with Large Disparities for Transgender Youth and LGBTQ Youth of Color,” The Trevor Project, 4 May 2022, https://www.thetrevorproject.org/blog/the-trevor-projects-annual-national-survey-reveals-upward-trend-in-suicidal-thoughts-among-lgbtq-youth-with-large-disparities-for-transgender-youth-and-lgbtq-youth-of-color/.
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