In my congregation, Earth Day pretty much qualifies as a religious holiday. :-/
My Sunday school class is doing the "UU Super Heroes" curriculum, so I taught about Beatrix Potter today, and my reaction was similar to yours. Beatrix Potter may have been technically a Unitarian, but neither she nor her parents were churchgoers. Her paternal grandparents were Unitarians and her grandfather was a Unitarian minister, and that probably had some effect on the kind of education she received. Still, calling her a "UU super hero" feels like a bit of a stretch.
Last time I taught, the "Super Hero" of the week was Pete Seeger, who does in fact belong to a UU congregation--but it's miles from where he lives, he doesn't attend, and he's on record as saying he only joined in order to have a place for his chorus to rehearse. I really think our "UU identity" curricula needs to do better than saying, "Look, this famous and interesting person had some tenuous connection to Unitarian Universalism!"
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Date: 2010-04-26 05:52 am (UTC)My Sunday school class is doing the "UU Super Heroes" curriculum, so I taught about Beatrix Potter today, and my reaction was similar to yours. Beatrix Potter may have been technically a Unitarian, but neither she nor her parents were churchgoers. Her paternal grandparents were Unitarians and her grandfather was a Unitarian minister, and that probably had some effect on the kind of education she received. Still, calling her a "UU super hero" feels like a bit of a stretch.
Last time I taught, the "Super Hero" of the week was Pete Seeger, who does in fact belong to a UU congregation--but it's miles from where he lives, he doesn't attend, and he's on record as saying he only joined in order to have a place for his chorus to rehearse. I really think our "UU identity" curricula needs to do better than saying, "Look, this famous and interesting person had some tenuous connection to Unitarian Universalism!"