Comments on: A Unitarian Universalist Zagat

By: Shelby Meyerhoff

Shelby Meyerhoff — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:02:14 +0000

Lizard Eater, you are so right about conferences. GA especially has really broadened my view, although I find the local conferences helpful as well.

That’s something I think is great about the UU blogosphere too; it gives us the chance to hear about what’s going on in other congregations.

Jacqueline, I really wish we had had more time to visit congregations in San Francisco — hopefully we’ll get back there sometime in the next few years, and I will ask you for the name of your old congregation.

By: jacqueline

jacqueline — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:03:07 +0000

“They become convinced that that their church is the definition of UUism.” OMG! That is SO SO SO how it is. I love that there are identifiable things that we all work with (symbols, hymns, and ritual) but that we are unique. AND being unique is what makes us so fantastic. Great post… and next time you have to cross the bay to San Francisco to see my old home church. Amazing building…

By: Lizard Eater

Lizard Eater — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:45:06 +0000

This is such fabulous advice. I think many of the problems in our small churches come from members who have never ventured outside their own church, never gone to a conference, visited another UU church. They become convinced that that their church is the definition of UUism. (I remember, wide-eyed, going to my first conference. “Really, you have a problem with joys and concerns, too?”)

Now, when I visit another UU congregation, I’m almost always overwhelmed with love for the group. I may not know their names, but I am with members of my TRIBE. They are different from my home church, but they are also so alike, discussing the problems in the world, celebrating what is good. They are my people.