173: Ministerial Search with Keith Kron
Podcast: Download (Duration: 47:01 — 43.0MB)
Subscribe: More
It’s that time again when Unitarian Universalist congregations and ministers go into search for each other. The Rev. Keith Kron, Director of the UUA’s Transitions Office, joins us to talk about the process, what’s new this year, plus what should be considered even when not in search right now.
The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Joanna Fontaine Crawford, Aisha Hauser, Hank Peirce, Michael Tino and Alicia Forde, with production support provided by Terri Burnor. The VUU streams live on Thursdays at 11 am ET.
Note: This audio has been edited for a better listening experience. View the live original recording on YouTube.
173 Excerpt: Good Relationships Between Ministers and Congregations
Podcast: Download (Duration: 5:21 — 4.9MB)
Subscribe: More
What makes a good, long-lasting relationship between ministers and congregations when they’re not in search? This is a highlight clip from episode #173 with the Rev. Keith Kron, director of the UUA’s transitions office.
The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Joanna Fontaine Crawford, Aisha Hauser, Hank Peirce, Michael Tino and Alicia Forde, with production support provided by Terri Burnor. The VUU streams live on Thursdays at 11 am ET.
Note: This audio has been edited for a better listening experience. View the live original recording on YouTube.
172: Susan Frederick-Gray, Candidate for UUA President
Podcast: Download (Duration: 49:50 — 45.6MB)
Subscribe: More
Susan Frederick-Gray joins us as the first of three candidates for UUA President who will be on The VUU in March. Throughout our conversation, Susan emphasizes the importance of fundraising and mission as central to the role of president.
The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Joanna Fontaine Crawford, Aisha Hauser, Hank Peirce, Michael Tino and Alicia Forde, with production support provided by Terri Burnor. Tom Schade joins as special host for this week’s episode. The VUU streams live on Thursdays at 11 am ET.
Note: This audio has been slightly edited for a better listening experience. View the live original recording on YouTube.
For All Those Who Seek Help
Podcast: Download (Duration: 0:42 — 664.8KB)
Subscribe: More
Our liberal religious covenant
is to trust one another enough
to seek help when we’re down and to offer assistance when we’re able.
–Tom Owen-Towle (Unitarian Universalist, minister, author) Read more →
Did You Know?
Podcast: Download (Duration: 0:19 — 303.6KB)
Subscribe: More
…that you can read blog posts from UUs, including CLF ministers Meg Riley and Lynn Ungar ? Read more →
City Upon a Hill
Podcast: Download (Duration: 0:57 — 904.1KB)
Subscribe: More
Now the onely way to avoyde this shipwracke, and to provide for our posterity, is to followe the counsell of Micah, to doe justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with our God. Read more →
Covenant
March 2017
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy… deathless song in the house of night. —Leonard Cohen
Articles
Thus Do We Covenant…
A number of years ago, I was the guest preacher at one of our small congregations in northern New England. Read more »
The Covenants We Keep
My seminary classmate was 30 years older than me. I sat in his small apartment, hoping for the kind of wisdom and guidance I had already come to know he might provide. Read more »
For All Those Who Seek Help
Our liberal religious covenant… is to trust one another enough… to seek help when we’re down and to offer assistance when we’re able. Read more »
Bound in Covenant (Excerpt)
A covenant is not a contract. It is not made and signed and sealed once and for all, sent to the attorneys for safekeeping or guarded under glass in a museum. Read more »
In the Presence of God and One Another (Excerpt)
We are being invited into a place where we move from an idea to an experience. Read more »
From Your Guest Minister
I often wonder if there is much more going on with free will than meets the eye, especially when it comes to finding and joining a spiritual community. Read more »
REsources for Living
I’ve been going lately to choir rehearsals in a classroom at a school for the arts, so I’ve had a chance to read the posters on the front wall. Read more »
Did You Know?
…that you can read blog posts from UUs, including CLF ministers Meg Riley and Lynn Ungar ? Read more »
City Upon a Hill
Now the onely way to avoyde this shipwracke, and to provide for our posterity, is to followe the counsell of Micah, to doe justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with our God. Read more »
Covenant
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy… deathless song in the house of night. —Leonard Cohen Read more »
171: Black Lives of UU
Podcast: Download (Duration: 50:24 — 46.1MB)
Subscribe: More
Kenny Wiley and Lena K. Gardner join us from the Black Lives of UU organizing collective. What a full and deep conversation about immigration, the threats to penalize protestors and how that will change organizing tactics, the need to move from reactionary to visionary, the life-giving form of creativity around resistance. Plus, Kenny, Lena and host Aisha Hauser made a passionate and compassionate call for white UUs to step up both their internal and external work around anti-racism and anti-oppression.
BLUU Convening:
March 9-12, 2017 in New Orleans
BLUU is gearing up to host this inaugural event that will bring together Black Unitarian Universalists from across generations. Learn more and register.
The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Joanna Fontaine Crawford, Aisha Hauser, Hank Peirce, Michael Tino and Alicia Forde, with production support provided by Terri Burnor. The VUU streams live on Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode aired on February 16, 2017.
Note: This audio has been slightly edited for a better listening experience. View the live original recording on YouTube.
170: Moral Resistance with Jen Butler
Podcast: Download (Duration: 45:06 — 41.3MB)
Subscribe: More
The VUU welcomes the Rev. Jen Butler, CEO of Faith in Public Life (FPL). We talked about the need for moral resistance against the Trump administration’s use of religious freedom to discriminate against people. Faith leaders have a unique role to play as prophets who tell the truth about the present, and faith communities have power at the local, state and national levels particularly when they work together.
The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Joanna Fontaine Crawford, Aisha Hauser, Hank Peirce, Michael Tino and Alicia Forde, with production support provided by Terri Burnor. The VUU streams live on Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode aired on February 9, 2017.
Note: On this episode, our guest experienced bandwidth challenges, so the audio is somewhat choppy. The podcast has been edited to improve sound quality as much as possible. View the live original recording on YouTube.
Your Body is Your Body
The chorus of this song by Peter Alsop is “My body’s nobody’s body but mine. You’ve got your own body, let me run mine!” It’s a good little bit of song to keep in your head for times when someone else seems to think that your body should look or act a different way than what is right for you.
