Season Come to a Close
The semester has come to a close, with the relief of completion. I attended the HUUMS holiday party on Saturday, and realized the difference of the culture between Harvard Div folk and those of us at BU. Me in my jeans felt a bit out of place with the folks in suits and dresses. I've seen the class analysis speaking of problems in discussing power and authority because UUs are middle to upper class, but it rejects the tradition of the working class Universalists. Especially outside of New England, there are many who come from privilege, but are not upper class and experience working class values. Maybe that is something we forget when we point to the demographics of education, but for those of us who are only the second generation of college goers in our families, we hold more to Garth Brooks' Friends in Low Places than to the Brandenburg Concerto. Not all of our congregations have Tiffany stained glass or are Kings Chapel. I wonder how much of our claiming privilege and wealth insults the congregations in places like Roxbury or Flint?