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Evin's Next Chapter

By: Evin Carvill Ziemer —
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Evin Carvill Ziemer

This summer, I switched regions beginning as the New England Region Developmental Lead. This has meant saying good bye to the Central East Region. Not really goodbye, I’m still UUA staff and I’ll still surely see you at various online programs. But, still, it is a goodbye of sorts.

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The Spiritual Practice of Untangling Perfectionism, Urgency, and Individualism

By: Evin Carvill Ziemer —
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Evin Carvill Ziemer

This is a story of two moments online and how some of the ways we white UU’s show up can cause harm.I’m writing this now because General Assembly is around the corner ...

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Where Are the Children and Families?

By: Evin Carvill Ziemer —
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Evin Carvill Ziemer

It’s a common question right now. It’s not just your congregation! What can congregational life look like for the children and families attending now?

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Welcoming Neurodivergent Folx to Our Congregations

By: Evin Carvill Ziemer， Darrick Jackson， Alex Sherwood， Sarah Gettie McNeill， Jennica Davis-Hockett —
Neurodivergence Series

Evin Carvill Ziemer

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Darrick Jackson

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Alex Sherwood

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Sarah Gettie McNeill

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Jennica Davis-Hockett

The five of us have all known for some time that we, collectively, need to learn how to do a better job welcoming and fully including neurodivergent people in our congregations. As UUA and UUMA staff, we haven’t known how to do this or how we should help.

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Widening the Welcome

By: Megan Foley， Sana Saeed， Evin Carvill Ziemer —
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Megan Foley

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Sana Saeed

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Evin Carvill Ziemer

Our mandate as Unitarian Universalists is to build Beloved Community in our congregations, and learning to draw our circles of welcome wider and wider is a growth opportunity for our churches.

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A Time to Simplify

By: Megan Foley， Evin Carvill Ziemer —
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Megan Foley

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Evin Carvill Ziemer

January 2022 is a time to simplify. Your regional staff have been saying “now is the time for easy programs” for months now. This month we mean it more than ever. We don’t know how this omicron surge will impact every congregation, of course, but the very high case numbers mean we’re all...

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Telling Our Stories to Cope with COVID

By: Evin Carvill Ziemer —
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Evin Carvill Ziemer

As the omicron surge–tsunami–hits the United States I am grateful for the protection of vaccination and yet I am braced against less deadly, but still deep impact. The impact of a form of trauma called “moral injury” or “moral distress”. I’m worried for all of us.

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Dealing with Anger

By: Evin Carvill Ziemer —
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Evin Carvill Ziemer

If you’re a congregational leader, you may be wondering why you can’t do anything right and it seems like someone is always angry with you right now. It’s not you. You’re not alone.

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Resilient Is a Verb

By: Evin Carvill Ziemer —
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Evin Carvill Ziemer

I keep hearing the word “resilient” and keep wondering what people mean by it. From a trauma-informed lens, resilience doesn’t mean we aren’t impacted. People who go through trauma are changed. Just as all of us have been impacted over the last year.

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In-Person, Online or Both? Which Direction Will We Go?

By: Evin Carvill Ziemer —
A minister speaks during online worship on a home laptop.

Evin Carvill Ziemer

Many congregations have been hoping to do a form of “hybrid” or "dual-platform" worship as a way of getting back together in person once we near the end of the pandemic. We are called to be inclusive-and each congregation will

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Building Resilience for After the Election

By: Evin Carvill Ziemer —
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Evin Carvill Ziemer

If there’s a knot in your stomach still; a dread of what else may be coming; fears about the Supreme Court; worry about your safety; feelings about your neighbors, family, and fellow citizens who support racism, fascism, and misogyny; this is an offering from me to you.

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Online RE Safety Webinar

By: Evin Carvill Ziemer —
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Evin Carvill Ziemer

This workshop was given by Evin Carvill Ziemer on September 19, 2020 focusing on safety guidelines and protocols as congregations prepare to launch religious education programming in an online environment.

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