I need to get to work on some of my mound of home work and assorted other projects. Yet I find myself thinking about a conversation in class this morning. The class is split up into several groups that will each prepare a worship service based around the idea of a parable. It doesn't have to be a Jesus parable. My group is mostly UU and formed with that intention in mind. So in the discussion we try to decide how to do a UU worship service that will fit this class. The first idea is to do interpretive dance. Then of course there is a song about dinosaurs going to heaven.
But we pull back as a group. The concerns develops that if we follow our impulses we might confirm the stereotype that UU's are pretty out there. It's an interesting dilemma. There is a desire to stand out a little and show the other students that UUism is a different religion and maybe just a tiny bit about the differences. Yet we don't want to go so far that we confirm in some minds the idea that there is nothing of interest in UUism.
It's an interesting idea, where do we stand in the idea of interfaith expression of ourselves. We are a different, unique religion. Yet we come out of Christianity. So how do we express out unique place when this might be the only UU service some of our fellow future clergy ever see?
It gets more interesting because after class I was with several other students in the class from different groups (without UU presence). They talked about their plan to do wild and unique services. Interesting...
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