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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 →
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…that you can read blog posts from UUs, including CLF ministers Meg Riley and Lynn Ungar ? Read more →
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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 →
March 2017
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy… deathless song in the house of night. —Leonard Cohen
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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.
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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.
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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.
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