I haven’t started listening yet but as a former board member of a UUA church who resigned in protest over all the bullshit, you’ve already made my dream come true with this episode. I will be a primo forever.
I just finished listening and all I can say is THANK YOU-- I feel seen and validated! I felt terrible for years over my voluntary exile because I thought it was my fault. The minister of my former church was one of the people who criticized the Gadfly papers without reading it and was an exemplar of the white, "tolerant," woke folx who have taken over the denomination.
Since I was on the board, I was privy to a lot of bullshit. For example, I asked how the Black Unitarian group Katie mentioned i…
A significant number of people want the community benefits of church without adhering to a set theology. When I was a lapsed Catholic who considered myself an atheist, I seriously considered the UU church.