For each GA event covered, this
table contains links to a summary (if available),
= link to full text 
= link to RealAudio recording, instructions
for use |
| Welcome |
Opening Celebration:
A Rainbow Welcome,
Rev. Gretchen Woods
including some new
lyrics for Amazing
Grace |
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| The Banner
Parade |
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Theme
Presentations |
"Fulfilling
the Promise GA Report,"
Clark Olsen |
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"Unitarian Universalism
in Societal Perspective,"
Dr. Robert Bellah |
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"What They Dreamed Be Ours to Do:
Lessons from the History of the Covenant,"
Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker |
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"The Good Society: Why Civil Is Good but Not
Good Enough,"
1998 Ware Lecture by Dr. Amitai
Etzioni |
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| Worship |
"Crowns and
Dreams,"
Rev. Dr. Kendyl Gibbons |
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Service of the
Living Tradition,
Rev. Dr. Barbara W. Merritt |
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"Second Movement,"
Rev. Galen Guengerich |
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"Your Mission,"
Rev. Dr. John Buehrens |
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"Saving the Earth, Savoring the Planet,"
Margot Adler |
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"Sí, ¿cómo no?"
Rev. José Ballester |
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| Business |
Greetings from
the President of the United States |
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| Recognition of
New Societies |
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| Historic
Rochester Welcomes UUs |
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| President's
Report, Rev. John Buehrens |
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| Financial Advisor's Report, Lawrence R. Ladd |
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| Finance Committee
Chair's Report, Ken Carpenter |
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| Fulfilling
the Promise GA Handbook |
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| Distinguished
Service Award, Rev. Leon Hopper |
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| Awards Breakfast |
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| Official
General Assembly Minutes |
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| Business
Resolutions |
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| Actions of Immediate
Witness |
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Vital
Congregations
Workshops |
"Crisis Communication
in the Electronic Age,"
Deborah
Weiner |
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Start,
Nurture, and Grow a Local Youth Group,"
Jennifer
Harrison, Sienna Baskin, Alison Purcell |
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"Preserving
Your Past To Support Your Future,"
John
Hurley |
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"Raising Congregations
to be Fair Employers,"
Barb Brown, Brad Brown, Barb
Lewis |
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"Small Talk:
Congregations' Start-up and Staying Power,"
Holly Loring, Margaret
Beard, Betsy Williams |
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"Strengthening
Your Congregation through District Resources,"
See also the UUA's District
Directory |
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"Welcoming Congregations:
Changes and Next Steps,"
Keith
Kron |
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"Creating
Anti-Racist Multicultural Congregations,"
Rev. Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley
and Rev. William Gardiner |
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"Leading Change:
A Process for Fulfilling the Promise,"
Christopher Cappy, Denise Davidoff,
Rev. Terry Sweetser |
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"UU Web Sites: The Next Generation,"
Bill Griffeth |
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Topical
Workshops |
"The Impact of
Women on the Unitarian Universalist Ministry,"
Rev. Helen Lutton Cohen |
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| Reaching
Up for Manhood, Geoffrey Canada |
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"A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian
Universalism,"
Rev.
Dr. John Buehrens, Rev. Dr. Forrest Church |
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"Why Our Health
Insurance Is Making Us Sick,"
Rev.
Ralph Mero |
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"Race and
Gender,"
Rev.
Meg Riley and Alyce Gowdy-Wright |
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"Doing Our First Works Over: Whither Congregational
Polity?"
Rev. David B. Parke |
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"Congregational
Polity: History and Practice,"
Rev.
John Buehrens and Rev. Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley |
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"First Steps
on the Journey Toward Wholeness,"
panel discussion led by Rev.
Susan Suchocki |
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Advocating for
Comprehensive Sexuality Education in Your Community,
Workshop led by Sarah
Gibb |
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What's Your RE
Program Mi$$ing? ...A LREDA Grant!
The Liberal Religious Educators'
Association |
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Personal Path
Workshops |
"Spiritual
Practices in Everyday Life,"
Rev.
Scott Alexander |
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"Thinking
about Ministry,"
Rev.
Ellen Brandenberg |
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"What Did the
Buddhist Say to the Humanist?"
Rev. Wayne Arnason |
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"Homeschooling
UUs: Living Our Principles,"
Rev. Jane Dwinell, Rev. Linda
Olson Peebles |
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| Performances |
Olympia's Daughters - opening set
Penny
Gnesin, conductor |
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| Act I of "Sweeping
Maria," Rev. Jennifer Justice |
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General Assembly
Choir Concert,
William Wells Belan, conductor |
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| Recordings |
The Voices of GA,
An index to all of the available RealAudio
recordings |
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Listen to GA! Hear speeches, sermons, and music
recorded live at GA.
During the course of the General Assembly participants attended plenary sessions that included reports delivered by the Rev. John Buehrens, president of the UUA, and Denise Davidoff, the Association's moderator.
Among the most heavily-attended presentations were Prof. Robert
Bellah's lecture which placed Unitarian Universalism within a wider
cultural perspective; Dr. Rebecca Parker's presentation on the nature
of covenant; and the Ware Lecture, delivered by Amitai Etzioni,
founder of the Communitarian movement.
Also prominentaly featured was an analysis, by the Rev. Clark
Olsen, of the recently completed denominational survey which is part
of "Fulfilling the Promise." This four year re-covenanting program
was the theme of GA, focusing attention of attendees and delegates
on the characteristics of covenantal relationships and the
connection of individual UUs to the entire Unitarian Universalist
Association. Many of the participants attended the Sunday morning Service of the
Living Tradition which honored recently deceased ministers and welcomed new
ministers into fellowship with the Association.
