Racial, multicultural tensions still beset Unitarian Universalists: Moving toward truth and reconciliation
During the Unitarian Universalist Association’s recent national convention in Portland, Oregon, Joseph Santos-Lyons was ordained as the host city’s first homegrown minister of color in the church that proudly represents the left pole of U.S. religion.
The Boston-based UUA, which is 92 percent white by its own estimate, embraces multiculturalism in theory like other liberal movements, Santos-Lyons said.
“A habit of liberals is to want to fix everything on the outside,” said Santos-Lyons, 34. “But we don’t turn inward and fix ourselves.”