POCATELLO — The Pocatello Unitarian Universalist Fellowship will host Rev. Lyn Stangland Cameron in a worship service addressing “Racism and White Supremacy.” The service Sunday at 4 p.m. will be at the Wesley Chapel in the First United Methodist Church, 200 N. 15th Ave. All are welcome.

Over the past few weeks, many have been responding to calls by UUs of color to look critically within our faith communities — including hiring practices, power brokers and cultural habits — for the ways racism, sexism and supremacy live.

Why is “white supremacy” the term here? It conjures up images of hoods and mobs. Here, we mean: “White supremacy as a set of institutional assumptions and practices, often operating unconsciously, that tend to benefit white people and exclude people of color.”

It has become clear that, for us to be more effective at tackling the white supremacy beyond our walls, we must also identify ways in which systems of supremacy and inequality live within our faith and our lives.

A special workshop will follow the service, and members and guests are invited to attend. Light refreshments will be served. Children’s Religious Exploration will be provided during the service. For more information, go to www.pocatellouu.org.

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