Pastoral Letter to Those Toiling in the Vineyards

After a lovely evening having dinner, drinking wine and watching the “Sex and the City” movie with a pal, I found a little flurry (4 or 5) of e-mails in my in-box from laypeople thanking me for my post on the over-simplification of our first principle among UUs and venting frustrations over lack of boundaries and high level of dysfunctionality in congregations.
Thank you all for writing. Thank you for not identifying your congregations or your ministers (all of whom you are immensely supportive of within what sound like very conflicted systems, and bless you for that)). Please do not apologize for venting. You are giving of yourselves to your congregations heart, soul, mind and strength and I consider it an honor to hear from you.
Let me say this.
Hold on. Keep giving the best of you, keep planting the seeds of strength and health wherever you can and […]