{"id":4570,"date":"2021-01-06T18:21:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T23:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/?p=4570"},"modified":"2021-01-06T20:06:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T01:06:44","slug":"a-message-from-rev-lee-about-the-events-in-our-nations-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/a-message-from-rev-lee-about-the-events-in-our-nations-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"A Message From Rev. Lee About The Events in Our Nation&#8217;s Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As Unitarian Universalists we support democratic values &#8211; and today, a small group of people are attacking those values at our US Capitol building, with horrifying force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of us are scared, shocked, sad, and angry about what we&#8217;re seeing. Together we can join, amidst our heartbreak, and remind each other that what happens next is always up to us. How we speak about what&#8217;s happening today, how we engage in conflict, how we defend human rights in our own country, and perhaps most crucially, how we protect, love, and care for one another &#8211; is always up to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May we be loud and unwavering in our witness to today&#8217;s events, and remember that while their tactics may be frightening, manipulation of the truth, intimidation by threat, and self-serving leadership will never be as strong as the Love that holds, calls to, and empowers us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rev. Lee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Signature.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2693\" width=\"327\" height=\"62\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Signature.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Signature-300x57.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Signature-768x147.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Unitarian Universalists we support democratic values &#8211; and today, a small group of people are attacking those values at our US Capitol building, with horrifying force. Many of us are scared, shocked, sad, and angry about what we&#8217;re seeing. Together we can join, amidst our heartbreak, and remind each other that what happens next is always up to us. How we speak about what&#8217;s happening today, how we engage in conflict, how we defend human rights in our own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","ctfw-has-image"],"featured_image_urls":{"medium":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2009_Wellsprings_Christmas_eve_0002-X3-300x199.jpg","large":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2009_Wellsprings_Christmas_eve_0002-X3-1024x680.jpg","thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2009_Wellsprings_Christmas_eve_0002-X3-150x150.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2009_Wellsprings_Christmas_eve_0002-X3-768x510.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2009_Wellsprings_Christmas_eve_0002-X3-1536x1020.jpg","post-thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2009_Wellsprings_Christmas_eve_0002-X3-720x480.jpg","saved-section":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2009_Wellsprings_Christmas_eve_0002-X3-1600x1050.jpg","saved-banner":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2009_Wellsprings_Christmas_eve_0002-X3-1600x400.jpg","saved-square":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2009_Wellsprings_Christmas_eve_0002-X3-720x720.jpg","saved-square-large":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2009_Wellsprings_Christmas_eve_0002-X3-1024x1024.jpg","saved-square-small":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2009_Wellsprings_Christmas_eve_0002-X3-160x160.jpg","saved-rect-medium":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2009_Wellsprings_Christmas_eve_0002-X3-480x320.jpg","saved-rect-small":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2009_Wellsprings_Christmas_eve_0002-X3-200x133.jpg"},"appp_media":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4570"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4582,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions\/4582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}