| In 2023, we UUs, as an association, voted to embrace six values centered in Love: Justice, Equity, Transformation, Inclusion, Generosity, and Pluralism. After four years working in an interfaith university chaplains office, trying to build community among people from around the world with, as Diana Eck puts it, very diverse commitments, I have much stronger feelings about the value of Pluralism. What might seem like a simple step beyond tolerance is actually much more nuanced when we wrestle with the real-life possibilities, and real-life pitfalls, of pluralism. |
| Elizabeth Martin Bio: Our guest speaker today is Liz Martin. She is a candidate for UU ministry who completed her Master’s of Divinity at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology in May of 2022. She now works at Emory in the Office of Spiritual and Religious Life as the office Program Coordinator, specifically working on interfaith programming for undergraduate students. Prior to moving to Atlanta in 2019, she was a life-long westerner having spent most of her life in Salt Lake City, Utah. She is a sixth-generation Mormon who found the local UU church to be a balm of acceptance after her faith crisis and has been a UU since 1996. She served both congregations in the Salt Lake Valley as a professional UU religious educator, for a total of 11 years, before finally taking the leap to attend seminary. Liz has a wonderfully supportive partner-in-adventures in her spouse, Russ, and their family includes two adult children, and a grand-cat. In her spare time, Liz loves to crochet, read, attend concerts, ride bikes, and take road trips. |