Meg’s Many Accomplishments

By CLF Staff | September 17, 2025

2020-07-01

During the ten years of Meg Riley’s leadership as senior minister for the Church of the Larger Fellowship, we have changed and grown in a wide variety of ways. Embracing the motto “Always in Beta!,” Meg’s innovative leadership has taken us in many exciting directions to serve the needs of Unitarian Universalists around the globe:

  • The Quest for Meaning website, with significant resources available online;
  • Weekly online worship services;
  • Live online vigils in response to national crises;
  • The VUU, a weekly online justice-centered talk show;
  • Development of the CLF Learning Fellows program, which helps seminarians and others prepare for innovative ministry;
  • Covenant Groups that meet in real time through video conference technology;
  • Faith Rocket—a program that shares CLF worship and religious education materials in a format designed to support small congregations;
  • Blogging;
  • CLF Facebook groups, including Coffee Hour;
  • Immediate pastoral care in response to world-wide crises;
  • Growth of the Prison Ministry program from 400 in 2010 to over 1,100 in 2020;
  • In-person contact with congregations throughout the US;
  • Growth of the CLF staff to include a director of technology and a communications coordinator

 

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