(Our Worship Service theme for October and September 2025)
One way to live into our UU shared values is by adopting a solidarity mindset. Solidarity emphasizes shared responsibility, a collective sense of belonging, and mutual support within a group, rather than just individual feelings or agreement.
Solidarity is more than just a feeling. Being in solidarity with others requires that we see another person as a neighbor, a fellow human who is equal in dignity. Solidarity means recognizing the responsibilities we have to one another and taking an active role in helping others. Solidarity drives us to action.
Being in solidarity with a person or with a group of people is shifting…
- from charity and saviorism…to mutual aid and collective action.
- from listening to respond…to listening to understand
- from talking at you…to talking with you
- from individualism…to community-centered care
In solidarity says:
“Nothing about us without us.”
In solidarity says:
“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” – Aboriginal activists group Queensland, 1970s
In solidarity says:
“…solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.” – Samora Machel
During September and October 2025 our worship services explore being “in solidarity.”
