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Tag: personal reflections

You Can’t Preach Here! You Can’t Marry Here!

October 21, 2020 Eric Schuman stories

Contributed by Eric Schuman Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Salem, Oregon In writing this essay, I ask the reader to understand[…]

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Interview 1 with Dee Graham, Dorothy Emerson, Meg Riley, Doddie Stone, Ann Tyndall

July 19, 2020 UURHAdmin 2019 Feb - New Braunfels TX, conferences

Dee Graham: All right, so we want to start by saying our names. I’m the Reverend Dee Graham and I’m[…]

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Q, Li, and a UU Journey

July 19, 2020 Adele Smith-Penniman stories

Rev. Adele Smith-Penniman talks about her journey in Unitarian Universalism over the past 50 years.  Li discusses this journey in[…]

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Dawn Sangrey

Dawn Sangrey

February 22, 2020 Dawn Sangrey stories

TRANSCRIPT: I’m Dawn Sangrey. I’m the Minister Emerita of the Mohegan Lake New York Congregation. When I was just beginning[…]

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Lucy Hitchcock

Lucy Hitchcock

February 22, 2020 Lucy Hitchcock stories

TRANSCRIPT: In 1987 I was invited by Bill Schulz to be part of a colloquium on “Is the Body the[…]

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Rev. Leslie Westbrook

Celebrating Love and Commitment

November 14, 2019 Leslie Westbrook stories

Offered by Rev. Leslie Westbrook Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church, Bethesda, MD July 20, 2003 I officiated at my first[…]

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Jay Deacon

Memories, Thoughts, Reflections on the Journey of GLBTQ People in the UUA

October 25, 2019 Jay Deacon stories

Offered by Rev.  F.  Jay Deacon, D.Min. Keynote Address, UURMaPA Conference, October, 2019 (Note:  This is not a word-for word[…]

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Kim K Crawford Harvie

What in your ministry should be part of the queer history of our faith?

October 23, 2019 Kim K Crawford Harvie stories

Rev. Kim K. Crawford Harvie Arlington Street Church I’ve been thinking about how many secrets I’ve kept about our queer[…]

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Personal Reflections – Brendan Hadash

October 23, 2019 Brendan Hadash stories

Offered at UURMaPA Conference, October, 2019 In January 1982, I began my extension ministry in North Hatley, Quebec, and West[…]

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Equal Marriage Statement Prepared for The Massachusetts State Legislature Hearing on Same-Sex Marriage

October 23, 2019 Eugene Navias stories

by the Rev. Eugene B. Navias Associate Minister Emeritus, Arlington Street Church, Boston October 23, 2003 I am the Rev.[…]

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Katherine (Kay) Greenleaf

October 23, 2019 Pat Sullivan stories

Personal Reflection – by Pat Sullivan Offered at UURMaPA Conference, October, 2019 I met Kay in 1986, and after a[…]

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Recollections of Conducting Same-Sex Weddings in New Paltz, New York, March 2004

October 3, 2019 Marion Visel stories

I knew that New Paltz Mayor Jason West had been performing same-sex weddings, but I learned of the ceremonies officiated[…]

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Thea Nietfeld

LGBTQ Movement in the Salina, Kansas, Fellowship

October 3, 2019 Thea Nietfeld stories

When I moved back to my home state of Kansas in 2009, I began providing monthly pulpit supply at the[…]

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Remarks About Gay Pride

August 21, 2019 Doddie Stone stories

A Homily Delivered by Doddie Stone Mount Diablo Church, Walnut Creek, CA June 26, 1988 (Note:  This was Doddie’s “coming[…]

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Interview with Rev. Richard Kellaway

August 20, 2019 Richard Kellaway stories

Interview presumably conducted by Lee Paczulla December 6, 2010 Q: Was the issue of homosexuality already being talked about within[…]

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Tying a Ribbon Around the Church

August 8, 2019 Marilyn Sewell stories

It was the Fall of 1992, and I had just arrived in Portland, Oregon, to take my position as the[…]

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The Education of a Hayseed in Academia

December 25, 2018 Barbara Child stories

I became a Unitarian Universalist in 1963, a few years before Stonewall, but my contribution to the Rainbow History Project[…]

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The Journey of A Congregation

December 14, 2018 Kenneth W. Phifer stories

This is the story of a congregation coming to new understandings and new actions regarding lesbians, gay males, bisexuals, and[…]

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Personal Memories of LGBTQ Groundbreakers in the UUA

November 26, 2018 Wayne Arnason stories

I was a surprising, and surprised participant in some important moments in the LGBTQ history of the UUA. I say[…]

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Topics

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Authors

  • Adele Smith-Penniman
  • Arthur Severance
  • Barbara Child
  • Brendan Hadash
  • Carolyn and Tom Owen-Towle
  • Cathie Severance
  • Celeste DeRoche
  • David Hunter
  • Dawn Sangrey
  • Dee Graham
  • Diane M. W. Miller
  • Doddie Stone
  • Dorothy Emerson
  • Edmund Pease
  • Elizabeth Strong
  • Eric Schuman
  • Eugene Navias
  • Ginger Luke
  • Gordon Gibson
  • Holly Horn
  • Jaco B. ten Hove
  • James A. Hobart
  • Jay Deacon
  • Josh Pawelek
  • Judy Welles
  • Kathleen Ellis
  • Keith Kron
  • Kenneth W. Phifer
  • Kim K Crawford Harvie
  • Leslie Westbrook
  • Lucy Hitchcock
  • Marilyn Sewell
  • Marion Visel
  • Mark Oppenheimer
  • Meg Riley
  • Michael Crumpler
  • Ned Wight
  • Pat Sullivan
  • Rhett Baird
  • Richard Kellaway
  • Richard S. Gilbert
  • Roger Fritts
  • Sean Parker-Dennison
  • Stephen C. Kraynak
  • Thea Nietfeld
  • UUMA
  • UURHAdmin
  • UURMaPA Conference
  • Walter Jonas
  • Wayne Arnason
  • William F. Schulz
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