The VUU

Alison Miller is 1 of 3 candidates for UUA President. She emphasizes the UUA’s need to invest in growth and to make institutional changes.

Meagan Henry with LREDA joins us to explore power dynamics between ministers and religious educators and the role of Good Officers. For show notes, visit https://wp.me/p89xv1-4ts

Bart Frost & Hannah Eller-Isaacs join The VUU to talk about youth faith formation and the new Coming of Age journal, “To This I Give My Heart.”

It’s that time when Unitarian Universalist congregations and ministers go into search for each other. Keith Kron, Director of the UUA’s Transitions Office, joins The VUU to talk about the process, what’s new this year, plus what should be considered even when not in search right now.

What makes a good relationship between ministers and congregations when they’re not in search? Excerpt from episode #173 with Keith Kron

Jeanne Pupke is 1 of 3 candidates for UUA President. She emphasizes collaboration and active listening as foundational to her leadership style.

Peter Bowden and “Twinkle” Marie Manning join The VUU to introduce us to the new UU Talks. This initiative helps congregations and other organizations share their own UU values and ideas with the world through Ted Talk-like live events. UU Talks provides coaching and mentoring for all the pieces that go into producing, promoting and distributing an event. It is an ideal tool for both small and large organizations to enhance their fundraising incomes, community outreach, and publicity. Learn more at http://uutalks.org.

The VUU welcomes the Rev. Jen Butler, CEO of Faith in Public Life. We talked about the need for moral resistance against the Trump administration’s use of religious freedom to discriminate against people. Faith leaders have a unique role to play as prophets who tell the truth about the present, and faith communities have power at the local, state and national levels particularly when they work together.

Susan Frederick-Gray is 1 of 3 candidates for UUA President. She emphasizes the importance of fundraising and mission as central to the role of president.

We talk with Judith Frediani about religious educators as community organizers and how they apply an intersectional lens in curricula that benefits all parts of congregational life. We also go deep into rankism and the many ways people assert their superiority. In our UU faith movement, this manifests itself around credentialing for religious educators and potential fragility of ministers. Judith has long been a staunch advocate for religious educators and the importance of their leadership in UUism. At the 2016 UUA General Assembly, she was recognized for her outstanding contributions to religious education. Visit http://bit.ly/thevuu168 for resources mentioned in this episode.