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education, race, racism, UU, white-privilege, whiteness
White alliance?
03.04.06 | Permalink | 12 CommentsThere’s been something of a buzz lately in the bluugosphere about the recent creation of an anti-racist/anti-oppression (ARAO) organization disastrously named “UU White Allies.” Scott Wells has an excellent reflection on the subject, and I encourage everyone to go have a read. My comment there was so long and involved, I decided it needed to […]
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education, ministerial-formation, ministry, seminary
A better way to do ministerial formation
11.15.05 | Permalink | 6 CommentsOrdained ministry is been overprofessionalized. When you expect people (without ever coming out and saying it) to live in genteel poverty for their first ten or fifteen years, and when most new ministers take out huge loans and have children to support, well, it just isn’t right. Add to that the “entrepreneurial” bit, as Scott […]
