In our UU tradition, we covenant not around creed, but around how we live together. And in the Black sacred tradition, “Amen” is not the end of a word—it is the beginning of a witness. It means: let it be real in me.

As Unitarian Universalists, we affirm the interdependent web of all existence, but this truth is not abstract. It is lived, tested, and proven in communities that have had to lean on one another to survive and to rise. From the spirituals sung in bondage to the freedom songs of the movement, we inherit a wisdom that reminds us: liberation is collective.

n a time of political tension, we must reflect on who might be left out of our beloved communities, and struggle towards a world to liberate all peoples.