Spring 2012
What Was and Is Required: Three Forums on the Renewal of UU in the 21st Century
Practicing Compassion and Connection More Fully
Rev. Dr. John Buehrens
Date: January 20, 2012
Location: First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco
Respondents: The Rev. Dr. William G. Sinkford, Senior Minister, First Unitarian Church of Portland; The Rev. Meg A. Riley, Senior Minister, Church of the Larger Fellowship
Facilitator: The Rev. Dr. Stephen Furrer, Interim Senior Minister, First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco
These three forums continued the discussion begun at the Minns conference held in Boston on April 8–9, 2011, "Composing Our Unitarian Universalist Future." Each session was led by the Rev. John Buehrens, who served as president of the Unitarian Universalist Association from 1993 to 2001. The Rev. Buehrens is the author of author of Understanding the Bible: An Introduction for Skeptics, Seekers, and Religious Liberals, and of Universalists and Unitarians in America: A People's History; and co-author (with Forrest Church) of A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism and (with Rebecca Parker) A House for Hope: The Promise of Progressive Religion inn the 21st Century. He is minister of First Parish in Needham, Massachusetts, and adjunct faculty at Harvard Divinity School.