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On Saturday, Unitarian Universalists elected the first Latino to the presidency of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (UUA) during their annual General Assembly held in Salt Lake City, UT. The vote was 2,061 to 1,481 in favor of the Reverend Peter Morales, making him the 8th elected UUA president since the 1961 merger of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church in America.
Rev. Morales currently serves as the Senior Minister of the Jefferson Unitarian Church in Golden, CO, one of the largest and fastest growing congregations within the UUA. His Platform focuses on growth, social action & public witness, and “developing a strategic plan for ministry for the next generation”, among other pertinent interests — an engagement with a world that needs the voice of liberal religion.
Also running for office was the Reverend Dr. Laurel Hallman, former Senior Minister of the First Unitarian Church of Dallas, TX, another large congregation where she served for over 20 years. Her Platform focuses primarily on strengthening Unitarian Universalism from the inside out, working from within to increase the relevance of the faith in the larger world.
In a letter posted to his campaign website shortly after being elected, Morales thanks Hallman “for her deep insights and inspiring contributions to our faith”, and welcomes her supporters into unity of purpose as the campaigning is now at an end.
He ends by saying that “[Unitarian Universalists’] goals to transform our movement are ambitious. In the hard days ahead, let us remember that we have already achieved what seemed a distant dream. You have my heartfelt thanks. You hold in your hands our shared hopes for what is to come.”
Rev. Morales currently serves as the Senior Minister of the Jefferson Unitarian Church in Golden, CO, one of the largest and fastest growing congregations within the UUA. His Platform focuses on growth, social action & public witness, and “developing a strategic plan for ministry for the next generation”, among other pertinent interests — an engagement with a world that needs the voice of liberal religion.
Also running for office was the Reverend Dr. Laurel Hallman, former Senior Minister of the First Unitarian Church of Dallas, TX, another large congregation where she served for over 20 years. Her Platform focuses primarily on strengthening Unitarian Universalism from the inside out, working from within to increase the relevance of the faith in the larger world.
In a letter posted to his campaign website shortly after being elected, Morales thanks Hallman “for her deep insights and inspiring contributions to our faith”, and welcomes her supporters into unity of purpose as the campaigning is now at an end.
He ends by saying that “[Unitarian Universalists’] goals to transform our movement are ambitious. In the hard days ahead, let us remember that we have already achieved what seemed a distant dream. You have my heartfelt thanks. You hold in your hands our shared hopes for what is to come.”
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