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What happens when the people we’ve been taught to save are already caring for one another? Drawing on their lived experiences of incarceration, houselessness, and street life, alongside their doctoral research, Elias Oak Poore explores the networks of care, solidarity, and survival that emerge where institutions fail—and sometimes in defiance of them. What might Unitarian Universalism become if we learned to recognize the sacred wisdom and moral authority of those we’ve been taught to fear and exclude—not simply as people worthy of our love, but as people who might transform our understanding of it?

Guest preacher Rev. Elias Poore, with Anya Ballinger

Elias Oak Poore, M.Div., M.A., is a Unitarian Universalist ministerial candidate and serves as Assistant Minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Eugene, Oregon. They are also a Doctor of Ministry candidate at Pacific School of Religion, where their research explores the intersections of faith, community care, and liberation.

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