How to come out.

[rivka]

Our church just hired a new Director of Religious Education. Here's an excerpt from her introductory column in the monthly newsletter, with emphasis added by me:

[...] And change is what we have before us. For me: a new apartment, a new job, a new routine, and a new ocean to visit when time allows. For all of us: new adventures, new forms to fill out, new committee responsibilities, new ideas to imagine, and new friends to enrich our lives. It might be too much if it weren't for all the familiar comforts that help us meet new challenges. For me, that's my family: my two partners, Lyn and Uri, and our cats, Lucy and Splat. And, of course, Unitarian Universalism, a faith that welcomes us all into a thoughtful reverence for this sacred world while nurturing within us the fierce desire for building justice.

I will be working with the Children's Religious Education Committee, building on the work of previous years, to continue to create a safe, welcoming religious home for children and youth. [...]

I've already met her, and I thought she was really cool. And I've heard fabulous things about her from the RE Committee. But this? I did not expect. Whoa.

Comments

Re: Wow

[(Anonymous)]

Just a complete cognitive dissonance with anything in the mental category 'religion', given all that I've read about what your church thinks, does and is. Not that I'm knowledgeable on the subject, being a second generation atheist. The groups, cultures and ideas that go by the title 'religion' in my general vicinity, would, I'm sure, find your church about as devilish as they would find me, if they noticed me. And yet, I spent this afternoon singing religious texts in Latin, practising Mozart's Requiem in an Anglican church, for a concert next Saturday in another Anglican church, a benefit for an Arab hospital in Gaza. Contradiction can be a most productive thing.
Emma

Re: Wow

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Okay, sounds like good weirded out, then.

Although it is true that Christians have all the good music. I envy you the Requiem. For one reason or another, I've missed every opportunity I've had to perform that with a choir.