Getting Started, Again
Thanks for the GA Support!
For the second time in two years, Jil and I took our ideas to General Assembly, this time with full musical backing, creating the atmosphere of joy we experience often at Community Church. Our hope was both to update our original thinking given the two years of learning we’ve done between workshops, but also to add a layer of urgency given the state of the nation. We’re so grateful to all the people who came out, who became the choir, who laughed and cheered, and who’ve contacted us since then in gratitude and curiosity.
Over the next few months, this space will be used to tease out the concepts we outlined. More importantly, though, we’re hoping to figure out a way to get you all in conversation with each other. We believe that Unitarian Universalism is essential in this moment, but that we are ill-prepared for the revival ready to spring forth. In order for that to happen, we need more than our voices. We started a Facebook group, but very few people are starting conversations there. We have a podcast and this Substack, but as much as people listen and read, they aren’t talking.
So, help us out! If these venues don’t work for conversation, what would? Zoom meetings? In person meet-ups? Can you forward this to a friend to get more people in the conversation? (This newsletter is free to everyone, although we are super grateful for the people helping us support this ministry.) We’d love to hear what’s on your mind and see how we can help each other Disrupt this gorgeous, radical, boundary-breaking, absolutely necessary Church!
Currently unchurched for the first time in 70+ years, didn't go to GA, trying to keep the faith but it's hard. Glad to see you are back.
Agreed. Folks seem "platformed" out such that creating something new...well a lotta folks just don't have bandwidth to spare. So how to get them to have the conversations you want to encourage where they are already conversing?
Yeah. I don't have any sure-fire suggestions. Maybe post a single question and ask folks to take it to places where they are already talking to folks. Maybe ask them to report back in the comments? (Not as a replacement for your regular posts...those are the ones that pick us up and keep us going!) Maybe something branded like a "think tank" rather than more social media interaction, so that folks come ready to focus and share...? Spit-balling here. It's a valid predicament.