At Least a Thousand Ways to Rest - Rev. Deanna Vandiver

Many times we are told to put things down, disengage, take a vacation or a media fast as ways to rest. Those are definitely ways to rest. And. Sometimes the rest comes in choosing presence, moving closer, picking up threads whose disconnected dangling was wearing us out. There must be at least a thousand ways to rest. Come practice a few together on our faithful journey towards collective liberation.

Bio: Born by a lowland salt marsh, educated by a mighty river, and moved by love to an island cared for by the people of the clear saltwater since time immemorial, Rev. Deanna Vandiver (she/they/De) is a called-auntie in the world and serves as an Affiliated Community Minister for Love and Liberation with the Church of the Larger Fellowship Unitarian Universalist and the founder of Ever Unfolding. As a human raised to be white inside of violent, extractive empire, Deanna is deeply grateful to the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond for shaping her core understandings as a young adult and beyond of how systemic racism dehumanizes all of us – and how it can be undone together.