UU Climate Justice Revival Sermon Contest Winners

Imagine that it's 2050 and we've achieved all of our wildest hopes for collective liberation. What is present in that re-imagined reality? What have our values led us to collectively abolish or move away from? The modern prison abolitionist movement imagines a future without police and prisons, drawing on deep convictions, faith, imagination, and hope to do so. What is the parallel vision for the climate justice movement that avoids the risks of prioritizing short-term gains or the distractions that so often divide our focus? How would our world transform if love was at the center of our climate actions and collective liberation were upheld as a uniting goal across all of the movement spaces that matter most?

In 2024, the UU Climate Justice Revival hosted a sermon contest, inviting clergy and lay leaders to preach on this topic. Read or watch the 8 winning sermons.