Les, recently retired as an international businessman, teaches in the St. Mary's College MBA program and is a lay UU preacher. He started the monthly Men's Breakfast at MDUUC, and with his wife Sue, serves on the UUA President's Council.
Sue and I were active UUs for 19 years before we came to MDUUC in 1995.
So what keeps us here?
The usual suspects: Theology. Music. Friends. Sermons with both scholarship and spirituality.
An anchorage and repose from the turbulent world of international business.
Continuity.
A beautiful place of worship.
Through worship, we come closer to our hopes, our aspirations.
Giving is like that, too. And MDUUC gives. Hugely.
This great church, this MDUUC of ours, is a hallowed place for me as a teaching church.
In 54 years, MDUUC has trained more than 61 interns. Among those we knew, Rachel Anderson, Carolyn Patierno, Darrell Richey and Jennifer Ryu come immediately to my mind. Alas, we arrived after Norma Cordell’s internship.
We are blessed by this tradition of teaching and learning. Let it be our privilege to “pay it forward” so that future generations will benefit from a vibrant and proudly liberal religious message.
In the words of Hymn 358, “Loud the hallowed walls demand, whence we come…and how and whither”.
