The mission of the UUSP Racial Justice Team is to live the Unitarian Universalist 8TH PRINCIPLE and keep it front and center within our team and throughout our church:

We, the members of the Unitarian Universalist Church of St. Petersburg, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.

Love guides the work of this Racial Justice Team which operates within the Social Justice Committee of UUSP.  We affirm that we live in the complexity of intersectionality and that building healthy and loving relationships is a spiritual practice, requiring both inward and outward focus. THUS: 

• We covenant to listen deeply, speak compassionately, express gratitude, and embrace our unique diversities in our meetings and interactions. 

• We endeavor to communicate honestly and with compassion, particularly when we are in conflict. When we hurt one another, we will try to make amends, forgive and reconnect with an intent to repair, change and grow. 

• Our purpose is to be radically inclusive in ways that feed the human spirit and lead toward more informed antiracist understandings and actions, individually and as a Racial Justice Task Force.

We will do our best to abide by this covenant.