Guest Blog by Shawn Risley Why did I attend GA this June? I’m a lifelong member, sure, with long-acquired historical facts, but my education had stopped there. This was a faith I cared about, yet felt this was a now-or-never opportunity for intense learning. I signed up online about a week before GA, glad that … Continue reading GA21: Inclusive Communication for the Road Ahead
Guest blog by Brad Offutt I was really wondering what she’d say in her Ware Lecture to all the virtually assembled UUs at the end of the General Assembly. Stacey Abrams is brilliant and well-informed, so she certainly would know to whom she was to speak – a liberal group professing no creed and identifying … Continue reading Stacey Abrams talks to UUs
Guest Author: Julia Cochrane I was one of QUUF’s delegates to the Unitarian Universalist Association’s 2021 annual national meeting which is called the General Assembly. Besides attending all the business meetings as a delegate, I also attended a smattering of events and workshops, and am listening to more after the fact, which is a benefit … Continue reading Praxis in the Borderlands: Solidarity vs Charity
Guest Author: Maria Mendes So what happened? There were a wide range of workshops, educational sessions, worship services, entertainment, and lively chat rooms, as well as business meetings at the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) General Assembly (GA) available virtually from Milwaukee in June. This year, 622 congregations were represented, primarily from the US, but also … Continue reading What Happened at General Assembly…and Why It Matters
Guest Blog by Bobbie Hasselbring When Rev. Kate asked me if I’d write a guest blog, I thought, “Oh, I don’t have anything to talk about.” Then, dear friends started losing loved ones and I watched their deep pain. First, it was someone’s mother dying from COVID-19. Then it was a husband who lived in … Continue reading The Grief Marathon
Guest Blog by Doug Rodgers I woke up the other day with a message from God in my mind. It went something like this. Dear humans, You seem more troubled than usual these days, so let me try to help you find a way forward. First of all, I do love you, always have and … Continue reading A Message From God
Guest Blog by Colleen Johnson Dear Friends, I have been a member of QUUF since 2006. I have sung in the choir, organized food for the Women’s Retreat, served as Pledge Chair for six years. I have been on Endowments, taught and attended ALPs classes, meditated in the mornings, worked on the auction, and coordinated … Continue reading So long, Farewell, Auf Weider…Oh, No!
Guest Blog by Heidi Mattern I’m walking with a friend, and we’re discussing our writing projects. Suddenly I blurt out, “I just realized I’ve been keeping a journal for 45 years!” “Wow!” says my friend. “How has that affected your life?” “I know myself so much better. I can listen within and love myself more … Continue reading The Gift of Journal Writing
Guest Blog by Al Thompson Many of us today are in various degrees of awareness of racism. While suggesting people become “woke” by doing this or that, following some kind of regimen, I feel that many of us older white folks might take a moment to examine our personal history. Maybe having people become more … Continue reading Through the Eyes of a Child
Guest Blog by Karl Bach We are travelers. We meet for moment in this sacred place To love, to share, to serve. Let us use compassion, curiosity, reverence and respect While seeking our truths. In this way we will support a just and joyful community, And this moment shall endure. In 1997 when our Fellowship … Continue reading Our Covenant, Our Guide
