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Our hosts chatted with Rev. Ana Levy-Lyons from First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn about her new book No Other Gods: The Politics of the Ten Commandments.
You can find out more about No Other Gods here: http://www.analevylyons.com/book
The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Michael Tino, Aisha Hauser and Christina Rivera, with production support provided by Jessica Star Rockers. The VUU streams live on Thursdays at 11 am ET.
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For this episode our hosts chatted with Rev. Jake Morrill and Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason about Unitarian Universalist Christianity. This is the first in a series of shows we will be doing about the many faiths practiced within Unitarian Universalism.
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The UU Christian Fellowship website: http://uuchristian.org
Subscribe to the Wednesday Word from UUCF: http://uuchristian.org/subscribe/
Revival 2018: http://uuchristian.org/revival2018/
The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Michael Tino, Aisha Hauser and Christina Rivera, with production support provided by Jessica Star Rockers. The VUU streams live on Thursdays at 11 am ET.
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I hope you know how much I love ministry with the CLF, and how blessed I feel every single day to have been passed this leadership mantle. As minister emerita Jane Rzepka said to me early on, “CLF is a great sandbox to play in!”
One of the aspects of CLF I love the most is that we are a learning environment, constantly taking in new information and experiences to shape how we might do ministry. Every time I read a new book about management or transformational change, I think, HEY! WE DO THAT! I mean our agility, our attention to mission more than tactics, our willingness to try experiments, even knowing they might fail.
Our learning fellows are absolutely central to creating this learning environment. They arrive from many places and stages of life, with dreams and longings for ministry that defy convention. Some are seminarians seeking ordination, others are living their calls in other ways. In this time when conventional congregations are struggling to remain relevant, they imagine new ways to reach out with the saving message of Unitarian Universalism. As I listen to the testimonies they’ve been sharing these last few weeks about their time at CLF, I hear over and over their gratitude to have had a setting where they could lift up their vision of ministry with support, and without fear of judgment.
You’ve probably noticed that we’ve been asking you money for the learning fellows program. You may have also noticed that the number of learning fellows we have with us varies greatly from year to year. All of that is determined by funding! If you value the diverse voices and visions that come through for a year or two and provide creative leadership, I hope you’ll make a donation of any size to help us out!
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It was six years into my time at a previous settlement that it happened. I’d fallen in love with the congregation, with its can-do attitude, its involvement in the community, its history of justice work and its music. Read more →
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We human beings are shaped and molded by the stories we tell one another, including those we tell our children. Read more →
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I have always loved houses of worship, even when I was “unchurched,” so when I learned that the fourth largest Christian church in the world—the Cathedral of St. John the Divine—was in New York City, of course I had to visit. Read more →
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I’ve attended ceremonies in a number of religious communities to welcome in new babies. Read more →
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Not so terribly long ago the U.S. was shocked and horrified when a man used multiple high-powered rifles and vast quantities of ammunition to shoot out of his hotel window at the crowd below as they attended a country music festival. Read more →
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Quest for Meaning is a program of the Church of the Larger Fellowship (CLF).
As a Unitarian Universalist congregation with no geographical boundary, the CLF creates global spiritual community, rooted in profound love, which cultivates wonder, imagination, and the courage to act.