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?
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Touche!
Posted by Justine | December 19, 2007 12:07 PM
Posted on December 19, 2007 12:07
Every once in a while I meet a UU who is upset that a place like King's Chapel is in our association. King's Chapel has been here for a long time, and has a place at our table.
Posted by Dudley Jones | December 19, 2007 12:27 PM
Posted on December 19, 2007 12:27
King's Chapel has its place. It is kind of cool that an Anglo-Catholic church took up Unitarianism when most of our congregations came from the Congregationalist tradition. That wasn't so much the point of my post. We parade our "most educated, highest per capita income" identity around a lot. How much of that is a fallacy? How much of that is out of touch with the real lives of Unitarian Universalists? Some of this reflection is based on Tex Sample's
White Soul: Country Music, the Church, and Working Americans.
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December 19, 2007 12:41 PM
Posted on December 19, 2007 12:41
I missed the memo about dressing up and showed up in jeans too. I tend to be morally opposed to dressing up for things that are not internship or CPE anyway. So I guess there are all kinds at Harvard.
Happy New Year,
Lucas (the incoming HUUMS president)
Posted by Lucas | January 4, 2008 11:47 PM
Posted on January 4, 2008 23:47
Hope your new year is treating you well Lucas! I'd agree that there are all kinds, more commenting on the trends.
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January 5, 2008 11:16 AM
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Hope your new year is treating you well Lucas! I'd agree that there are all kinds, more commenting on the trends.
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January 5, 2008 11:16 AM
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