Opening Statement at Candidate Forum, 6/20/13
The following statement was prepared for delivery at the Moderator Candidate Forum at the UUA General Assembly on Thursday, June 20: Good evening; I’m Jim Key, I’m running for Moderator. I’m grateful...
View ArticleOur Faith, Our Future
With this blog, we come to the end of our series that highlights what I see as some of the challenges and opportunities that we face, my vision for this faith that I love, and how my experience in both...
View ArticleFirst UU Church of Nashville Safety Net Petition
I support the First UU Church of Nashville Safety Net and its petition to start a national conversation on clergy misconduct. Clergy as well as lay leaders who do not understand nor observe appropriate...
View ArticleOff-site Delegate Participation in GA Business Meetings
Off-site delegate participation provides an alternative way for congregations to participate in the business of the Association when their delegates cannot physically attend General Assembly (GA)....
View ArticleGovernance as Leadership
As I see it, there are two primary considerations that delegates need to take into account when deciding for whom to vote for Moderator: does the candidate have experience and skills to do the job,...
View ArticlePartnering with Youth and Young Adults
Justice GA in Phoenix showed dramatically the power of partnering with other groups to achieve common goals. During the preparations for Justice GA, our leaders went into the planning sessions to...
View ArticleJustice as Restoring Broken Relationships
The bombing in Boston reminded me of an idea that Joerg Rieger of Southern Methodist University has written about – justice as restoring broken relationships. He has been inspired by the liberation...
View ArticleThe Rest of the Story
I was recently informed that the Data Services Office of the UUA inadvertently violated the UUA policies governing the election of Association officers by making available congregational email...
View ArticleTranslating Business Experience into Lay Leadership
Work has been continuous in my life since I was 9 — delivering the morning newspaper to my neighbors until I was in high school. I then worked in retail, grocery stores, highway construction, and a...
View ArticleA Letter of Encouragement and Support
I was invited to offer words of encouragement and support to the trustees of the four district boards of the New England Region as they gathered in retreat this past weekend. This was my response and...
View ArticleA Beneficial History
Liz and I attended the Southeast District Racial Justice Conference held in Columbia, SC, March 1-2. We’ve attended many of these conferences over the years, and we’ve always grown from our...
View ArticleAlways a Day Away, Creating the “Good Life”
Why do we seem to be “always a day away” from achieving our potential? In previous blogs I have discussed our opportunity to be radically welcoming and to examine our cultural differences based on...
View ArticleAlways a Day Away, Understanding Cultural Differences
As discussed in a previous blog, future growth of our faith seems “always a day away.” In that blog, I examined the challenge to truly welcome the stranger, the newcomer into our community. One factor...
View ArticleAlways a Day Away, Offering Radical Hospitality
In the theme song from the musical, Annie, the lead sings that tomorrow is always a day away. That could be the theme for our movement for the past 200 years. We all know that Thomas Jefferson...
View ArticleReason, Spirit, and Emotion
In previous blogs, I talked about Humanism and spirituality separately. But I combine both of these in a single mind that uses them jointly to make sense of my world. And then there are emotions; I...
View ArticleSpirituality and Religion
“I’m spiritual, but not religious.” How often have we heard someone say that? The Rev. Galen Guengerich, minister of All Souls Church in NYC, said in a workshop at a recent General Assembly that if...
View ArticleMy Religous Grounding: Spirituality
In the previous blog, we looked at our Humanist roots and commented that Humanism, although not necessarily by that name is perhaps the fastest growing faith/philosophy in the Western world. Our...
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My Religious Grounding: Humanism
Finding a religious movement that provided a place for Humanism made me whole after a lifetime of tolerating an incomplete religious community. One of the sources of my discontent with the liberal...
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Thanksgiving
Liz and Jim Thanksgiving is my favorite season of the year. It puts me in a state I wish I could sustain all year, thankful for all of life’s gifts. Thankful for not just friends and family, but those...
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Interview with Jim
Interviewer: You are running for one of the two highest leadership positions in the UUA, the Chief Governance Officer for our association. Why? Key: Like many Unitarian Universalists, I imagine a...
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