Love is the spirit of our church and it is that love that guides us to seek justice for all. In that spirit the Heritage Social Justice Collaborative brings together individuals who have passion around various areas of social justice.
We gather to share information and support each other around these passions. We meet to generate ideas using the power of group interaction. Individuals or teams take the lead in a specific area of justice work. They communicate their activities to the greater congregation. With congregational involvement, more impact can occur as we work together to change injustices in our world. We also meet to vote on the use of monies from the church’s Social Justice balance sheet account.
Any Heritage UU Church member or friend is welcome to join the Social Justice Collaborative and lead the congregation in their passion.
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What “Collaborative” Means to HUUC’s Social Justice Group
Our church’s Social Justice Collaborative is not designed as a committee, team, or task force that determines what social justice activities HUUC (Heritage) members should do, or that decides what stance Heritage takes as an organization with regard to social justice issues. Instead, at a meeting, people can exchange information about their social justice passions and recent or future social justice events. Ideas and support can be shared. Sometimes group activities, such as the “Discover the Underground Railroad” trip on May 18, 2024, emerge as something in which many Heritage folks might want to participate. Sometimes, discussion produces other outcomes such as HUUC’s indigenous land acknowledgement. The passions discussed have wide-ranging causes.
Some of the items discussed at the March 2024 HUUC Social Justice Collaborative meeting are shown below.
- Racial Justice
- “Discover the Underground Railroad” upcoming field trip
- “Deeper than Skin” performance
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent book discussion
- “Learning to Liberate” webinar series
- Discussion of the 1970 Bewitched episode entitled “Sisters at Heart”
- Ohio House Bill 171 – a bill that would require some teaching of racial justice in primary and secondary schools
- Housing and Homelessness
- Found House Interfaith Housing Network – an organization in which churches house homeless families for a week at a time
- Food Security
- Cooking classes provided by Heritage Healthy Cooking Classes
- Inter Parish Ministry’s choice food pantry
- Indigenous Peoples
- Indigenous land acknowledgement
- Indigenous people’s study group
- Economic Justice
- UUs for a Just Economic Community (UUJEC)
- LGBT Issues
- Ohio House Bill 68 – a bill that denies gender-affirming medical care to minors, currently being challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union
- Governmental Reform
- The group “Citizens not Politicians” regarding redistricting
- UU Organizations
- Unitarian Universalist Council of Greater Cincinnati (UUCGC), which supports efforts of the Metropolitan Area Religious Coalition of Cincinnati (MARCC)
- The MidAmerica Region of the Unitarian Universalist Association
- The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA)
- UU the Conversation – a group hosting nation-wide discussions on the proposed new Article II of the UUA Bylaws
- UU Justice Ohio (UUJO) – a state-wide social justice network
Please consult https://huuc.net/calendar-for-huuc/, our church’s latest calendar of upcoming events for the next scheduled HUCC Social Justice Collaborative meeting. All people who have an interest in social justice issues are invited to attend.
For more information on this group, the activities listed above, or if you have a cause you would like added to the agenda, contact Mimi Sinclair at
Image source: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/834889
- Racial Justice
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August Social Justice Collaborative Meeting
Sunday, August 18, 2024, approximately 10 minutes after the completion of the morning worship service.
If you have a social justice passion you would like to share with others at Heritage, or if you just want to learn what is going on, then come to the Social Justice Collaborative meeting on Sunday, August 18, 2024, in the Heritage Room. We will share information and our activities on things such as Anderson Churches for Racial Unity, the Found House effort to shelter homeless families, working with and healing our relationship with Indigenous Peoples, Cincinnati Pride, and the Poor People’s Campaign, to name just a few.
Come to learn about and contribute on one of these, or raise your own area of concern. All HUUC members and friends are invited.
If you have questions or ideas, please see the person putting together the agenda, Mimi Sinclair. Her email address is
Photo caption: Poor People’s Campaign March to the Capitol, March 2018.
Photo credit: Stephen Melkisethian. Creative Commons License.
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Soles 4 Souls
Just a reminder that Joann Meyer still has a “shoe box” under the coat rack in the rear hall to collect shoes. Most donations go to a national organization called Soles 4 Souls. They take all and any shoes in any condition, and send them to those in need all around the globe. Check them out at www.soles4souls.org.
But sometimes, Joann finds pairs that can be put to immediate use and sends them to Inter Parish Ministry (IPM). So instead of throwing unwanted or old shoes away, please bring them to church (keeping them out of a landfill) and put them in the blue box. We can make a difference!
