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Robert Murphy signed Commit to Serve and Learn in an Affected Community 2015-12-11 00:17:03 -0500
Congregations and communities are preparing for the 400th anniversary of the “Mayflower” voyage. Many of the congregations that were established by Pilgrims and Puritans – including the famous church in Plymouth – are now Unitarian Universalist churches…… Although I’m now an environmental justice minister in Florida, I continue to work with the Ballou Channing District and with other groups that want a time of truth and reconciliation for the next 5-6 years. We’re concerned about Native Americans and we’re concerned about environmental justice. We’ve asked the General Assembly to respond to the “Mayflower” anniversary in appropriate ways.
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Robert Murphy commented on Be a Leader 2015-12-10 23:44:18 -0500
I'm a Unitarian Universalist minister in Florida who has been active in environmental justice work for a long, long time. During the 1990s, I helped to establish the Green Sanctuary movement and I introduced the UUA's first statement on environmental justice work. I was active in some other projects. In 2010, the national Sierra Club gave me a Special Service Award because of my environmental justice work. In recent years, I've done a lot of emergency services work. I coordinated the trauma and climate change workshops for the General Assembly gatherings in 2014 and in 2015.... My Florida congregation introduced the proposed discussion that's called "Climate Change and Environmental Justice." I'm the minister for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tarpon Springs, Florida. We're very close to the Gulf of Mexico.
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