{"id":349,"date":"2005-06-21T20:46:35","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T01:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2007-11-09T10:46:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T15:46:34","slug":"three-takes-on-unitarian-universalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"Three takes on Unitarian Universalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Forst Worth, Texas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sitting here at Billy Miner&#8217;s Saloon with three other ministers, chatting away about this and that, waiting for the reception for Professional Days to begin. I decide to ask them: What&#8217;s the future of Unitarian Universalism? Here are their responses.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Favreault: &#8220;I want to find out what Mike Durrall has to say in his workshop tomorrow [at Professional Days]. I was interested to hear that he thinks ministers in their forties will be the last generation to serve UU congregations, and as a UU minister in my thirties I&#8217;m intrigued by that question.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alice Syltie: [she laughs, then gets serious] &#8220;Somebody in my congregation said she didn&#8217;t know what we are about, she didn&#8217;t understand Unitarian Universalism any more. She thought she did once, but not any more. I want to hear what the Commission on Appraisal has to say on that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Forrest Gilmore:  &#8220;Doughnuts, and rock-and-roll.&#8221; I ask, do you want to say more about that? [he laughs] &#8220;I&#8217;ll stand on that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of the best things about General Assembly (and Professional Days which preceeds it) is the chance to ask questions like this, and get into long conversations with smart people who care about our faith.<\/p>\n<p><em>uuaga05<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forst Worth, Texas I&#8217;m sitting here at Billy Miner&#8217;s Saloon with three other ministers, chatting away about this and that, waiting for the reception for Professional Days to begin. I decide to ask them: What&#8217;s the future of Unitarian Universalism? Here are their responses. Michelle Favreault: &#8220;I want to find out what Mike Durrall has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[216],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-religion","category-sauntering","tag-uuaga05"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}