It looks like the UUA board is looking at some pretty significant changes to their makeup. For a denomination that wonders, often, why it doesn't reflect the faces of the US I find it amazing that it hasn't met outside of Boston more than three times. I don't know if they know this, but we aren't all from the east coast.
Class, youth, race - these are all issues that the UUA struggles with. They have good hearts, but they can't seem to figure out why they don't hit a high note with many individuals. It could be that they have no idea what we are like. Personally, when I was in California I cared less and less about what the UUA wanted or did. They didn't reflect the needs of the congregations or districts that I was part of. Now that I am in the South they are even further removed. Often, and I don't advocate this, members of our fellowship will ask why we send them money when they do nothing for us except give us an umbrella name to sit under.
Then there are the districts - If nothing happens except the change of the districts within the UUA I would be thrilled. We are in the district with Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. Texas is a whole other world from Arkansas - and most of our district is made up of folks from there. Talk about not feeling part of the clan. I am 10 minutes from the Missouri border, but it is hours to get to Texas.
Maybe these changes would mean that the UUA figures out who we all are - us outside of Boston.
