Conversations at General Assembly

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Conversations at General Assembly

Photographs from conversations at the 2018 UUA General Assembly, plus dialogue prompts the Board of Trustees posed about essential features of Unitarian Universalism and visions for its future.

Sonja L. Cohen
A small breakout group meeting in a large auditorium at 2018 General Assembly

People meet in breakout groups to discuss questions posed by the UUA Board of Trustees during the 2018 General Assembly in Kansas City. (© 2018 Nancy Pierce/UUA)

© 2018 Nancy Pierce

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General Assembly attendees met in breakout groups (above) to consider and discuss the following four questions. We invite you to discuss them in your own congregation:

  • What is essential to you about being a Unitarian Universalist?
  • What do our Purposes (see page 64) and Principles (see page 10) capture well that is essential to who we are and what we must do as UUs? What do they leave out?
  • How could our mission, Purposes, Principles, and bylaws more accurately convey our vision of a future for our faith that compels us to act on our deep commitment to antiracism and antioppression?
  • In what specific ways are we asked to transform lives, communities, and the world in these times? How does our shared life in our congregations and covenanted communities prepare us to do this?
The Rev. Gail Seavey and the Rev. Dr. Deborah Pope-Lance, win the UU Women’s Federation’s 2018 Ministry to Women Award.

The Rev. Gail Seavey (left), of Nashville, Tennessee, and the Rev. Dr. Deborah Pope-Lance, of Wayland, Massachusetts, win the UU Women’s Federation’s 2018 Ministry to Women Award “in recognition of their prophetic persistence over the years that has kept the issue of clergy sexual misconduct within Unitarian Universalism within our public consciousness.” (© 2018 Nancy Pierce/UUA)

© 2018 Nancy Pierce
The Rev. Michael J. Crumpler explains the UUA’s revised Welcoming Congregation program during one of two GA poster sessions.

The Rev. Michael J. Crumpler explains the UUA’s revised Welcoming Congregation program during one of two GA poster sessions, a new innovation this year. (© 2018 Nancy Pierce/UUA)

© 2018 Nancy Pierce

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