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This week, we talk with Cecilia Kingman, Margaret Rogers, and Jordinn Nelson Long about how pastoral care needs and response in a coronavirus world.
Rev. Meg Riley, Aisha Hauser, Christina Rivera, and Rev Michael Tino host this live Unitarian Universalist talk show discussing today’s topics from an anti-racist, anti-oppressive and multicultural perspective.
The VUU streams live on Facebook (or sometimes on YouTube) every Thursday at 11 am ET. Production support for this episode is provided by Antonia Bell-Delgado.
The VUU is brought to you by the Church of the Larger Fellowship.
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This week, we talk with Tim Atkins and Joy Berry about how to maintain faith development across the lifespan in a coronavirus world.
Rev. Meg Riley, Aisha Hauser, Christina Rivera, and Rev Michael Tino host this live Unitarian Universalist talk show discussing today’s topics from an anti-racist, anti-oppressive and multicultural perspective.
The VUU streams live on Facebook (or sometimes on YouTube) every Thursday at 11 am ET. Production support for this episode is provided by Antonia Bell-Delgado.
The VUU is brought to you by the Church of the Larger Fellowship.
In light of all that is happening right now with the spread of Covid-19, our team has decided to extend the CLF Leadership RFP deadline to midnight on Sunday, March 22nd. For those planning to submit a proposal, please feel free to contact us at search(at)clfuu.org if you have any concerns about meeting this new deadline.
Beyond this change, we will be moving forward as planned with our search timeline to conduct virtual first round interviews in April and finalist interviews in early June. In May, we will make a determination as to whether we can safely host finalist interviews in person, or if we need to move these interviews to zoom.
We also recognize that many ordinations planned for this spring are currently in jeopardy of being postponed. Please know that if you have been granted preliminary ministerial fellowship by the MFC but have not yet been ordained, you will still meet the requirement of having a minimum of one UU minister per proposal.
We hope you are all staying safe and connected (virtually) to loved ones and our faith community during these difficult times.
The CLF Search Team
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Learn what congregations and other groups are doing to maintain real connection virtually in times such as these. Guests include the Revs Mykal Slack, Jessica Star Rockers and Suzanne Fast. We will also be joined by Aaron Payson and Madelyn Campbell from the UU Trauma Response Ministry.
Rev. Meg Riley, Aisha Hauser, Christina Rivera, and Rev Michael Tino host this live Unitarian Universalist talk show discussing today’s topics from an anti-racist, anti-oppressive and multicultural perspective.
The VUU streams live on Facebook (or sometimes on YouTube) every Thursday at 11 am ET.
Production support for this episode is provided by Lori Stone. The VUU is brought to you by the Church of the Larger Fellowship.
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This week we are chatting with VUU superfans: Quiana Perkins, Janine Gelsinger, and Tie Resendiz de Perez.
Join us to learn what these UU movers and shakers are up to! Rev. Meg Riley, Aisha Hauser, Christina Rivera, and Rev Michael Tino host this live Unitarian Universalist talk show discussing today’s topics from an anti-racist, anti-oppressive and multicultural perspective.
The VUU streams live on Facebook (or sometimes on YouTube) every Thursday at 11 am ET. Production support for this episode is provided by Antonia Bell-Delgado.
The VUU is brought to you by the Church of the Larger Fellowship.
“Come with me, and you will be, in a land full of imagination…”
If You Want to See Paradise (Don’t Ask me for a Picture)
Poem by incarcerated member Vylet
Yeah, I know you want something a little more upbeat.
And all my poems are sad.
I’d write about being happy more often,
If I were happy more often. eee, Gad!
But for you, let me try this.
It’s no big deal.
For you, I will write
What I do not feel.
With imagination it’s easy.
Word play I create.
A mind set to set minds.
In a World. Realist. State.
Happy happy joy joy.
Ahhh, forget this.
What do you want from me?
My heart is dark as midnight
And only death holds the key.
I hate people. I hate life.
I wish death, I stir strife.
I talk proper and fool people.
Sophisticated learned evil.
I wasn’t always full of resentment.
Bitterness and sorrow
Pain and depression.
But that story will not be told,
This morning or after lunch.
Use your imagination
And make one the hell up.
Ah yes, I imagine and daydream it’s true
That one day I won’t have to imagine
What it’s like to be happy
And happily write a poem for you
1-25-2020
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Imagine…if you believed democracy were essential. Not just a “choice” among variations of how to govern a group of people, but an essential structure. Read more →
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The Unitarian Universalist minister David O. Rankin liked to relate a story from his career. Read more →
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Do you trust democracy? In your bones, do you trust it? Do you trust yourself and your fellow citizens? Read more →
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One hundred years ago the state of Maine was sharply divided between Republicans and Democrats. 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.