Unitarian Universalist is the only one of widespread presence that works on this. To my knowledge.

#asuuforum @ All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church Kansas City, Missouri https://www.instagram.com/p/BwPT5lVHIlv/?utm_source=ig_twitter_share&igshid=14anyavfgwkq0 …

Restorative justice is an act of giving back, not going back, for nothing will ever be the same as before the damage was done. Most justice is seen as retribution, or revenge. The victim is to be made whole again by the act of removing the perpetrator from society, punishing them in the hopes that by this act the victim will gain some kind of restoration, while the perpetrator’s years of incarceration may deter them from future misdeeds.

However, this system does nothing to truly restore the victim’s sense of loss and harm, and it produces even more victims. For every incarcerated person there is likely to be a spouse and children who are made destitute by the imprisonment. There are children who grow up without one of their parents in the home. And the larger system is victimized by what is so often the family’s need to rely on services such as food stamps and public health services.

Those who must manage the prisoners are also victimized by the rules and by being seen by their charges as captors. These guards then go home and may find it difficult to adopt the role of loving and listening parents and spouses. The rate of substance abuse and family dysfunction is high among prison guards, creating yet another generation of victims.

Most of all, the actual victim of the crime is not restored, for vengeance has no restorative qualities. They may well live in fear that they will once again become victims. Their lives are forever changed.

Restorative justice gives the victim the opportunity to take control, to give up that feeling of powerlessness. They may well be able to face their perpetrators and let them know just how their actions have caused damage— often permanent harm. It allows victims to be part of the legal process, not, as so often happens, becoming victimized once again by a process in which they have no say in the outcome. In many cases restorative justice gives the perpetrator the opportunity to perform acts of contrition to try to restore the lives they have harmed through their actions.

Restorative justice is often able to divert the perpetrators from long-term incarceration, and from the high social cost that goes along with it. The goal of restorative justice is to make whole that which was torn, with each of the participants emerging stronger than before, able to enjoy a sense of peace, responsibility and unity.

Attached media: https://web.archive.org/web/20211109232810/https://www.questformeaning.org/podcasts/19_04/05.mp3

There’s a community of Holiness Church, as well. Baptists, Methodists, Presperterian, Unitarian Universalist, 9 or 10 Roman Catholic Churchs. A synagogue, Laotian Buddhist Temple, 2-3 Wiccan groups, 1000s of Spiritualistsahs HooDoo practioners. A Ba’hai Temple

Gonna join a Unitarian Universalist church and convince the pastor to preach about Spinoza

"Clayton Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church says it will become South Carolina’s first “sanctuary church,” flouting the federal law that makes it illegal to knowingly harbor undocumented immigrants." https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article222573195.html …

That’s definitely a Unitarian Universalist stole on an officiant in the background, bearing their slogan “standing on the side of love.” Now I’m curious: did the UU send folks down for this? Or is that a local UU minister and the UUA just sends everyone the same stole worldwide? https://twitter.com/zackford/status/1064510370772062209 …

Yes, I'd have heard of it. I'm a Unitarian-Universalist. We've heard of pretty much everything. But why does "pandeism" need a messenger? What does it offer as a belief system that is more useful than good old secular humanism?

@BlackLivesUU hi, how can non-Facebook users receive info about virtual worship w #BLUU ?? I disengaged from FB a few years ago and have zero desire to utilize it going forward but want to become more active w BLUU. Thank you!!

Meanwhile, the head of Unitarian Universalist Association appears to be in Sen. Grassley’s office participating in a protest action in support of Kavanugh’s accusers. https://twitter.com/sfrederickgray/status/1045328883959181314 …

@wallstreeter43 @jandrew62956555 @EBatterson @_NIKD_ @DrJ_WasTaken @adr3n Nice try, but I'm a Unitarian-Universalist.

@wallstreeter43 @jandrew62956555 @EBatterson @_NIKD_ @DrJ_WasTaken @adr3n Nice try, but I'm a Unitarian-Universalist.

Head of the Unitarian Universalist Association condemns #MuslimBan2 as “un-American” and an attack on “single religious group.”pic.twitter.com/041Rzz77Vd

Head of the Unitarian Universalist Association condemns #MuslimBan2 as “un-American” and an attack on “single religious group.”pic.twitter.com/041Rzz77Vd