{"id":10885,"date":"2022-06-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/?p=10885"},"modified":"2022-06-14T12:59:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T16:59:34","slug":"transparency-inclusion-and-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/2022\/06\/15\/transparency-inclusion-and-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Transparency, Inclusion, and Love\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>     At the annual meeting Sunday I declared the troika of \u201cTransparency, Inclusion and Love\u201d to be the touchstones I hope will mark my two years as president for the Board at USR. Maybe you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWhat about \u2018Kum-ba-yah\u2019?\u201d Everybody\u2019s in favor of T.I.L., aren\u2019t we? <br>     UnTIL transparency means airing our dirty laundry. UnTIL inclusion means giving power to \u201cyounger and\/or marginalized-identifying members\u201d (as a candidate for the Unitarian Universalist national board said who wants to spLIT our denomination). And unTIL love gets mystical and transcendental.<br>     I\u2019m not setting out touchstones that can be set aside when the work gets difficult. I\u2019m aiming to make our UU principles and sources the wellspring of our work, and to take our mission statement as gospel: <br><em>Growing in mind and spirit, we act together as a beacon for justice and love: transforming self and world.<br><\/em>     I&#8217;m inviting each of you to join me in this journey marked by T.I.&amp;L. as USR moves forward in these exciting and challenging times, as we fully activate our circle process and as we plan for our future.  I will keep you informed, listen to what you have to say, and (as I have learned in these admittedly few years of being Unitarian Universalist with you) care deeply about the legacy we\u2019ve received and the future we\u2019re creating for the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood.<br>     In my video message Sunday I said thank you to Rev. Sarah for her inspiring leadership that made me want to get involved at USR, thank you to Dawn Walter for holding us together during the incredibly disruptive pandemic, and thank you to you, the members, for entrusting me with the responsibility to guide the Board. Together we <em>will<\/em> \u201cGrow Back Stronger,\u201d strengthening the membership and material resources of the Society.<br>     Please reach out to me with your questions and comments: 201-406-8991 (cell) or <a href=\"mailto:jlohr@uuridgewood.org\">jlohr@uuridgewood.org<\/a><br>                \u2013Jack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the annual meeting Sunday I declared the troika of \u201cTransparency, Inclusion and Love\u201d to be the touchstones I hope will mark my two years as president for the Board at USR. Maybe you\u2019re thinking, \u201cWhat about \u2018Kum-ba-yah\u2019?\u201d Everybody\u2019s in favor of T.I.L., aren\u2019t we? UnTIL transparency means airing our dirty laundry. UnTIL inclusion means &#8230; <a title=\"Transparency, Inclusion, and Love\u2026\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/2022\/06\/15\/transparency-inclusion-and-love\/\" aria-label=\"More on Transparency, Inclusion, and Love\u2026\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10893,"href":"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885\/revisions\/10893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}