UUA President William G. Sinkford Reacts to Columbia Disaster

Like all Americans and citizens of the world, I was shocked on Saturday to hear of the destruction of the space shuttle Columbia and the deaths of the seven courageous astronauts. We are dealing with yet another national tragedy. We hold the families of the astronauts in our hearts. It is now our task to make a space for the grief we feel and to find a ground of hope from which to move forward.

We celebrate the lives and the accomplishments of these seven brave women and men, and we take solace in the knowledge that their deaths were in the service of a mission to which they felt a joyful call. We trust that they are now at peace.

In faith,

William G. Sinkford
President, Unitarian Universalist Association

See Also: Remembering Shuttle Columbia Astronaut and Unitarian Universalist Laurel Salton Clark

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