{"id":23392,"date":"2020-12-03T12:16:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T17:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/?p=23392"},"modified":"2022-07-13T13:16:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T17:16:56","slug":"uusjs-presence-in-the-halls-of-power-is-important-to-share-and-implement-our-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/uusjs-presence-in-the-halls-of-power-is-important-to-share-and-implement-our-values\/","title":{"rendered":"UUSJ\u2019s presence in the halls of power is important to share and implement our values"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-23393 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eleanor-420x654.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eleanor-420x654.jpg 420w, https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eleanor.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><em>Chaplain Eleanor Piez,\u00a0UU Community Minister.\u00a0Eleanor\u00a0served as Intern Minister with UUC of Annapolis and UU Legislative Ministry of MD and is currently affiliated with Mt. Vernon Unitarian Church, VA.<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a minister, I feel it\u2019s my job to ask continually: How do we advance our noblest spiritual beliefs and commitments? How, each day, do we affirm our connection to whatever is sacred as we move through our daily lives? UUSJ helps me do this. It brings spiritual principles like dignity, compassion, interconnection, equity, into practical terms \u2013 and writes them large \u2013 into our nation\u2019s laws, budget decisions, and public policies. Even if we don\u2019t pass everything we work on, we\u2019re planted strongly in those values, and people notice. UUSJ\u2019s presence in the halls of power is so important to share and implement these values. People need \u2013 and want \u2013 to hear our voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplain Eleanor Piez,\u00a0UU Community Minister.\u00a0Eleanor\u00a0served as Intern Minister with UUC of Annapolis and UU Legislative Ministry of MD and is currently affiliated with Mt. Vernon Unitarian Church, VA. &nbsp; As a minister, I feel it\u2019s my job to ask continually: How do we advance our noblest spiritual beliefs and commitments? How, each day, do we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/uusjs-presence-in-the-halls-of-power-is-important-to-share-and-implement-our-values\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UUSJ\u2019s presence in the halls of power is important to share and implement our values<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,1241,1952],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-civil-liberties","category-testimonials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23398,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23392\/revisions\/23398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}