My goal is straightforward: by General Assembly 2010, the UUA will have in place a system for addressing clergy misconduct, which is not only fair to all concerned, but includes justice for victims. I expect it will resemble a distilled version of Truth and Reconciliation.
I came up with this goal a few months ago. This blog grows out of the goal -- not vice versa. GA 2010 came to mind for two reasons. First it gives adequate time to adjust processes and test the adjustments. Second, it will be exactly a decade after the Report of the Safe Congregations Panel.
How Unitarian Universalists address clergy misconduct
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2 comments:
Ah, truth and reconciliation. As Desmond Tutu (one of my personal prophets) says, it's a matter of ubuntu. Which is to say that "you are a person through other persons". Or, we are human through other humans. It's about caring for each other, about existing in harmony and right relationship with each other. And as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission demonstrated, that requires truth telling... which is what you are doing here.
Desmond Tutu's book No Future Without Forgiveness was and continues to be a force in my life: http://www.amazon.com/Future-Without-Forgiveness-Desmond-Tutu/dp/0385496907.
Dear Daisy,
What a lovely first comment -- and how you grace this blog. At first, as you were explaining ubuntu, I thought of the 7th Principle -- then the 4th -- then the 2nd. It seems there is so much that is fundamental to UUism in your one brief post. Perhaps this is why this work feels so pivotal to me?
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