Keynote - Luminous Pragmatism

 

What will we carry now into the future?  Historian Tiya Miles uses the term “luminous pragmatism” to describe how the activist/healer Harriet Tubman answered her lifelong calling with all of her powers:  her deep understanding of nature and human nature, her astute reading of the signs of her times, her will to serve, her mystical and unwavering spirituality.  When the AUW gathers in November, our American landscape will be differently mapped than it is right now.  No matter the outcome of this year’s election, how will we choose to move forward one-by-one in community?

 

Victoria Safford has served UU congregations in Massachusetts and Minnesota and currently serves as part time co-chaplain for the staff of the UUA.  She lives with her family on the west side of St. Paul.

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