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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Article about this issue in the Post today:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/04/17/what-happens-when-a-church-dedicated-to-fighting-white-supremacy-is-accused-of-it/?utm_term=.0c7a68cb602d[/quote]

I'm a member of All Souls Church and this has been personally wrenching experience for me as I love both Rev. Hardies and Rev. Newman- Moore--but I just don't see this situation as newsworthy.

The greatest sin of Rev. Hardies is that he didn't give annual performance evaluations to his colleague?  There are people that are calling for his removal over this!

I don't know what Rev. Newman-Moore did but I hated that this all came down on her while bereaving the loss of her mother.

I just watched two documentaries-- Come Sunday  and Wild, Wild Country--- and they helped me put all this into perspective.  (Bishop Pearson of Come Sunday has actually preached at All Souls UU DC a few years ago-- at Rev. Hardies request, I recall-- and he was amazing!) 
Unlike Come Sunday, this isn't a biblically based schism on the nature of God.

Unlike Wild, Wild Country, neither Rev. Hardies nor Rev. Newman-Moore bilked millions of dollars, engaged in immigration fraud or attempted murder.  I'm thinking that to outsiders this really comes down to a pretty boring workplace dispute which is currently in the mundane process of wrapping up after the parties come to agreement on a severance package.  Yes, there will also be workshops and committee meetings and perhaps a change in church governance policy.  After all, we are Unitarians! But no one is going to jail.  Rev. Newman-Moore may start her own church and some may leave All Souls and go to her church.   Maybe Rev. Hardies will take a demotion as management is not his wheelhouse and the church may need to hire someone that will just take over all that managerial stuff.

In sum, for those of us in the church this is as traumatic as having your parents divorce.  But for outsiders, I don't get the appeal.  why do you care?  Better to watch Come Sunday or Wild, Wild Country on Netflix!   [/quote]

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