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serving as pilgrim Life History Rev. Eric Posa | |||||
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Track 9: Song: "The Beatitudes" Artist: Sweet Honey in the Rock Brite Divinity School enriched me, by throwing me into a broadly ecumenical environment. I may have been out in far left field there as a UU, but there was no single, dominant group theologically or denominationally. Few students expected everyone else to be the same as them, and nobody assumed much about me, which allowed me to define myself and represent my liberal religious tradition on my terms, rather than having to defend against particular misconceptions. Also, I felt many of the threads of my spiritual journey come together there. Any "Christ cringe" I might have had left over (from having grown up in Kennedale) was eliminated, replaced by a respect for the amazingly diverse Christian religious tradition I immersed myself in for almost 5 years. My intellectual, pastoral, and political development wove together fine there, and I especially felt my committments to anti-racist and BGLT ally work, as vital aspects of my ministry, growing very strong and more deeply informed. And my ministry internship early in my seminary career, at the Unitarian Church of Baton Rouge in 2002, affirmed my call to ministry more strongly than I could have hoped. It was a healthy, dynamic congregation which accepted leaderhip from me, especially in the areas of young adult ministry, and in heeding a call from me to begin working toward Welcoming Congregation status. (They became a Welcoming Congregation in 2003.) Everything went well during my months in Baton Rouge--except that my wife's work prevented her from coming with me, and we lived apart for several months. backward to "Wings of a Dove" foreward to "One" | |||||
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