URGENT: Release Rev. Fulgence Ndagijimana and other Unitarians Suffering Persecution in Burundi
We stand with Unitarian Universalists across the globe calling for the immediate release of the Rev. Fulgence Ndagijimana of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Burundi.
“On November 16th, the minister of the church, the Rev. Fulgence Ndagijimana, was arrested from the church at gunpoint, taken into police custody and interrogated severely, regarding the activities of his church. He was threatened with physical harm and death. At the moment he remains in custody, with other members of the church also being questioned.”
—International Council of Unitarian Universalists (ICUU)
120: Black Lives of UU
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Leslie MacFadyen and Lena Gardener meet with The VUU team to talk about self-care, the situation in Minneapolis, and a Year Without Tamir. The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley and Joanna Fontaine Crawford and airs Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode first aired November 19, 2015.
119: The Kids are Alright: UU Youth Programming
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Bart Frost and Hannah Eller-Isaacs join The VUU panel for a conversation about UU youth programs. The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley and Joanna Fontaine Crawford and airs on Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode originally aired November 12, 2015.
118: Lucy Stone Wins Big!
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Heather Concannon and Elizabeth Nguyen for the Lucy Stone Cooperative join The VUU to talk about their $100K prize from Forbes. The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley and Joanna Fontaine Crawford and airs Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode originally aired Nov 5, 2015.
The Longest Journey
Many Unitarian Universalists have gone on long and meaningful journeys, but none has gone quite as far as Clyde Tombaugh.
Clyde was born 1906, and ever since he was little he wanted to be an astronomer. A hailstorm that destroyed the family’s crop meant that there was no money to send him to college, but he built telescopes and lenses on his own.
The astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto here shown with his homemade 9-inch telescope. Photo circa 1930, Public Domain
People at the famous Lowell Observatory were so impressed with his drawings of Jupiter and Mars that they offered him a job.
While he was working at the Lowell Observatory Clyde Tombaugh explored the sky using photographs taken through a telescope, and through a special procedure discovered that what he suspected was true—there was another planet out beyond Neptune.
Although that planet, Pluto, was later reclassified as a dwarf planet, it was an important discovery about our solar system.
What about the longest journey? Well, Clyde Tombaugh died in 1997, at the age of 90. He was cremated, and some of his ashes went onto the New Horizons spacecraft that made it all the way to Pluto, and recently sent us back stunning pictures of the dwarf planet at the edge of our solar system.
Truly an amazing journey!
CLF Nominating Committee Seeks Leaders
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The Church of the Larger Fellowship’s Nominating Committee seeks CLF members to run for positions on the Board of Directors beginning June 2016: Read more →
Opportunities to Journey
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“The only journey is the one within.” —Rainer Maria Rilke Read more →
Did You Know…
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…that the CLF sponsors a blog page for UUs on the religion and spirituality site patheos.com? Read more →
Journey
November 2015
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” —André Gide
Articles
On Setting Out and Coming Home
Matsuo Bashō, the late 17th century Japanese poet, speaks of a strong desire to wander, as if it’s the essence of who he is. Read more »
CLF Nominating Committee Seeks Leaders
The Church of the Larger Fellowship’s Nominating Committee seeks CLF members to run for positions on the Board of Directors beginning June 2016. Read more »
Trail Blazers and Covenant Keepers
As a little girl I ran away from home at least twice every summer, hurling myself out of the house with outrage at childhood oppressions like being left out by my brother and his friends or facing bad sportsmanship during a T-ball game. Read more »
Pilgrims Always
At core, we Unitarian Universalists are wonderers and wanderers; pilgrim seems to capture the balance of focused aim and fluid adventure so integral to Unitarian Universalism. Read more »
From Your Minister
When I was a young adult, my inner and outer life resembled a Taoist poem I had memorized (and now only partly remember). It began, “There’s no path in front of you; that’s the track of your own foot…” and ended, “I speak of the road the butterfly cuts.” Read more »
REsources for Living
Have you ever really thought about why we call those early settlers who came to New England seeking religious freedom “Pilgrims”? Read more »
Did You Know…
…that the CLF sponsors a blog page for UUs on the religion and spirituality site patheos.com? Read more »
Journey
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” —André Gide Read more »
