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And yet if I hadn't happened to be at the CP that night back in 44, if Sergeant Downes had had a better sense of direction, if a particular German soldier whose name I'll never know hadn't happened to be asleep at his post, who knows. My wife and that is French and she's a girl from Brie. She's very romantic and sentimental. When we hit the outskirts of Brie, she starts reminiscing too. You know, she believes that fate brought us together. Well, I'd go with that, but not in the same direction. We called the night when you and Sergeant Downes I knew even then that one day we would be married. Yeah, I'll bet you. Look, there were many boys in the town, but I could have married them, but not me, I would have none of them. I always said, my marriage has been made in heaven, and I will know the man when I see him. All right, if you want to keep all the facts straight. The only reason you met me was because it was rainy. Well, the rain does come from having the signals.  There was a carving. And I said to myself, this American soldier, one day he will be my husband. Isn't that okay? Some guys don't get married because they have cold feet. No, I got myself a wife because I had wet feet. No, go on. Tell me you are sorry. Look, all I wanted was to get some dry socks for the squad. And look what happened to me. Well, long about this point and that gets a little dreamy-eyed and sort of lost in thought, so I don't say anything. After all, why should I spoil a romantic moment? Maybe you don't ordinarily think a first sergeant is a particularly romantic guy, but believe me, we've got nothing against romance as long as it doesn't interfere with the work of the company. But the night I met him, I wasn't a first sergeant. I was the leader of a rifle squad and my feet were wet and I was very tired. I'd gone back to the CP for a reason that you might never think of, but a reason that's very real are soldiers who have been standing around and pooled the water for a couple of days. But isn't Hanes? Well, hi, Sergeant John. Where is everybody? The old man went out to look over the first platoon and everybody else is, I assume, out doing something or other necessary to win the war. Now, what can I do for you? Well, Lieutenant Mayberry said for me to come back here and see if I can get some dry socks for the men in my squad. The cooks are supposed to be drying out a whole bag of socks for the men back at the kitchen. Gordon went for them.  How is it up in the line? Wet. I'll send Gordon back with the socks and some hot coffee. I hope he shows up before we have to move out. F Company has to take that town up ahead. What's the name of it again? Bree. Oh, yeah, yeah, Bree. And we have to support them on the left. Oh, let me get that phone. Easy one. Come in, easy one. Come in. Who is it, Sergeant John? That's battalion, sir, for you. Not taken. Easy one. We've been waiting. I haven't had any word. Yeah, right. Hasn't there been any word from F Company, Sergeant? No, sir. F Company is supposed to be in Bree now. Sergeant Henry. Yes, sir. Are you ready to move the CP? Yes, sir. Are the messengers here from each platoon? Yes, sir. We're supposed to move out to support F Company, but as it stands, I have to wait for the battalion to give the order. Down. You've been here all the time? Yes, sir. Have you heard from Captain Wilson of F Company? Other words, sir. Well, what's the situation there in Bree? Has F Company gone in? Are they waiting or what? Down. Yes, sir. You know the route F Company took? Find Captain Wilson and see what the situation is. Take a man with you. Report back as soon as you can. Yes, sir. Let's go ahead. Hey, wait a minute. Down. All I did was come back to get some dry socks for my squad. Well, it's... Oh, it goes. Say, what do you figure happened to F Company? We found out what had happened to F Company, all right. Just a few minutes after we left, the news came in on the phone to Captain Rhodes for CP. F Company had waltzed in debris ahead of schedule. There was no resistance. It seemed the German commander had goofed. He thought his orders were to withdraw. Well, his colonel straightened that out in a hurry. The jury's counterattack with the whole regiment and F Company had to get out of there fast. Now, as I say, we found it all out, but quite a bit later. As a matter of fact, almost too late. As we approached Bree, all was quiet. But suddenly, it seemed as though there was an earthquake. Where does that seem to be coming from? Well, I hope I am wrong, but it seems to be on both sides. That's what I thought. That machine gun fire, that's ours, you can tell. Yeah, but it's over to the right. F Company must have pulled back. Oh, that's great. What are we doing here? You got someplace to go?  Yeah, but where are we? There is, I can figure, Bree is just over to the right and through all the fire he's coming from. Oh, it's stuck. Yeah, what do we better do? The question is, who's on first? Or who's in Bree? Did F Company pull back or didn't they? Well, that's the old man wanted to know. Come on. Where are we going? We're going into Bree. Whether we stay there or not, what kind of welcome we'll get is discussed at this time. The outskirts of the town. We moved as quietly as we could. Now, actually, you might think our problem was quite simple. All we had to do was find out who was in the town. But in combat, things that seemed simple have a habit of becoming complicated. Now, you might suppose that the F Company commander would telephone, but his lines could have been cut. He could have used radio, but his equipment could have gone dead. Now, he could have sent a runner back, but the runner could have been captured. The reason I'm saying all this now is because that was what was going through my own mind at the time. And that's what I keep telling the men in my own outfit today. No machinery or equipment or a weapon has ever been invented. That's going to replace a man himself. There's no such thing as a foolproof, mechanically perfect war. But getting back to Sergeant Downs and me and the woods in front of Bree, we came to a path that wound among the trees. Now, we hadn't walked more than 50 yards when we heard voices coming towards us. You didn't have to be a professor of languages to know that the voices were not speaking English. We both dived behind some underbrush and we waited. That way! Looks like a whole platoon to me. I guess they went past us. Let's get out of here. Hold it. I guess steps. Yeah. We almost ran right into those two. Yeah. There must have been Gearhawk and Fritz lagging behind. Look like two typical goldbricks to me. Where do you figure that Jerry platoon is heading? I think they're digging foxholes. If they're digging foxholes in front of Bree, that means he must be in Bree. Let's see if we can get back. Well, we sure can't go through them, Downs. I know. They'll just have to get around them. Yeah, mortars. Yeah, eyes. They'll be artillery, too. That means we've got a cover attack. At first, they're going to plant for these guys. That's a good idea. The only thing wrong with it is that we're out here, too. We have to find some cover somewhere. Yeah, where? I don't know. But we can't stay here. I once had a grandfather used to tell tall stories about the time he was a sea captain.  I remember he said, Well, sir, the flames drove me to the rail and I had to jump overboard right into the mouth of the sharks. So when I asked him what happened, he said, Oh, nothing. The sharks ate me. That was the story I kept thinking about now. The Germans were all around us. We had no place to hide. And our own shells were starting to fall close. We started to run through the woods and the only place you can be when mortars are coming is under a tree. We reached the edge of the woods and we could see some buildings in the distance. We stopped running. Now, even though the shells were still coming in and our hope of safety wasn't somehow getting into a cellar, we just had to stop. There were sure to be juries in the houses. Now, just then a mortar burst no more than 20 feet away. That decided it. We just had to take our chances. So we ran for the nearest house. Suddenly, Down's tripped and fell into a hole. I dived in after him and Down's was rolling around on the bottom of the hole, fighting with the Germans. I should take care of him for a while. I fell right into the hole with this guy. He's got one of their light machine guns. How come we didn't spot him from the woods? Never mind that. Lucky he didn't spot us. You know why? He was asleep. Yeah, I fell right on him and woke him up. We were buying time, all right. The trouble is we're... all we're getting is a couple of minutes of the throw. Now, you take this choker. He's bound to have a buddy. Where's his buddy? Talk about the devil. Go ahead. That means exactly what it sounds like. He wants Heinrich to come here. Where's he here? Sounds like he's in that house. Sounds like he's getting a little nervous about Heinrich. Hey, what are you doing? I'm gonna put on Heinrich's helmet. What do you think of the agency? What's up? I hope this guy doesn't get a notion to come out and look for Heinrich. That's exactly what he's doing. There's three of them coming out the house, heading this way. Now what? Yeah, well, what? Let's stop them. Ah, they're going back to the house. What happened? I can figure they wanted our boy Heinrich to come into the house. But they think he's asleep. Well, in a sense that's true. So they're just gonna let him stay out here. That means we're okay for another couple of minutes anyhow. In another couple of minutes it should be dark. Now, uh, I think we've got a chance. The way I figure it, this area is being held by a platoon. We saw most of them go out past us, where they're probably gonna dig in. The platoon headquarters is probably in that house. We know there's at least three of them in there. The juries who are out digging foxholes are gonna stay where they are. The three of them in that house aren't gonna come out here in this rain. Now, just as soon as it's dark enough, we can start looking for a place where we can sneak through to the out there. We better move fast. There's gonna be a counter-attack. I sure hate to be caught in the middle. Why don't we worry about just one thing at a time? Why do I have to be me? Why did I have to go back to the CP for those miserable dry socks? Just think, I wouldn't even be here now. No, you sound better. You should never be bitter.  I should only live the role. You will. One day you'll have grandchildren. You'll rock them on your knee and you'll tell them all about this. But you'll probably build it up. You'll make it sound like you knocked off the whole German army all by yourself. Hey, what's that? Looks like one of those Volkswagen's. Stop by the house. That guy's getting out. Looks like an officer. Oh, no. What does he want? Uh-oh, wouldn't you know it? Don't like the idea that being in the house, he wants him out here in the hall. Yep, that's right. They come out. How many grenades you got? Uh, three. I can't hear what he's saying to him, but it's the sense he's giving him what for.  Then what? Then we fly out of here. Where to? What do you want me to do? Give you the big picture? All we can do is make one little move at a time.  Let's go with those grenades right now. All right. Your United States Army is presenting the proudly we hail production of One Little Move At A Time. And One Little Move At A Time, the right one, is all it takes to secure your future. Today, American soldiers get the finest technical training in the world.  And the Army sees to it that every man is trained to do his job and what's more important to do his job right. Because the Army is growing so rapidly, today's soldiers are being promoted fast. Oh, you work hard, sure, but well, believe me, the rewards are really well worth it. Right now, the Army needs healthy, intelligent men and women, volunteers from 18 to 34. So if you've got what it takes, then you think seriously about an Army career. Stop in at your nearest United States Army recruiting station today. Get all the facts about what the Army has to offer you. You are listening to proudly we hail. And now we present the second act of One Little Move At A Time. In the late summer of 1944, two American infantrymen, Sergeant Downes and Corporal Haynes, who is telling the story, found themselves behind the German lines in a small French town called Bury. The American Army is getting set to attack and take the town. But right now, this isn't going to help either Downes or Haynes. Downes and I jumped out of the hall and ran. The Germans didn't know there were only the two of us to deal with. After all, they had to figure this was an attack and instinctively they ran for cover. We ran past the house and up a little street. And back of us, we could hear shooting, but that was all right. For another few seconds, the Jerry's really wouldn't know what they were firing at. Right now, we couldn't take a chance at trying to get back through the line. But there was another chance we had to take. Because on our right was another house. We were going to trust to luck that there were no Germans in it and that we could hide there for a while. So we dashed around the back of it, found the rear door. It was open and we went in. Shut the door. Oh, how do you do it, mademoiselle? What? Americans. Have you taken our town again? Not quite. Oh, the Americans, they were here before. Then the Bosch, they came back. Now have you come back? Welcome. My name is Edgar Vier. This is my daughter, Annette. The guys think they're rough all over, but especially tough around here. These brave, wonderful army. Oh, we are liberated. Well, honey, the American army is wonderful all right, but all you've got now is just the two of us. Oh, you told us it's enough. You will make the Bosch run. Hey, Downes, is this girl real? Silly girl, be silent. These Americans, they have much trouble. Yeah. By now the Germans know there was no attack. They know there are some of us loose behind their lines. They're going to start looking for us. Where can we hide? But you can hide here. But the gerries are going to turn this whole town inside out if they find us here. You're in a jam. John? John? Papa? Papa, what is John? Does Papa seem in jambo? Oh, but we have not had jambo since the war began. Nevertheless, you will hide here. Everywhere. You're right. They'll search that. Your cellar? They won't miss out there either. Unless you've got some secret room or passageway. There is only one thing we can do. Annette, go to the window and stand guard. Warm us the moment the Bosch appears. Yes, Papa. Come with me. What's this? What does it appear? It is my workshop. I am the carpenter of Brie. You will hide here. Here? I don't see where we can... Sure. Sure, why not? What are you laughing at, Don? Take a good look, will you, pal? Uh-oh. Uh... What are those? What do they look like, Haines? They look like carpets. Give them a man of cigar. Yes, unfortunately, since the war, business in coffins is quite brisk. The Germans are coming. Each of you will get inside of one. But if we're stuck inside those, we don't have a chance. You talk as though we got a real good chance now. I will not seal the leads. You will have air to breathe. Where are the Germans now? Yes, Madame Cardinette, please. Ah, fortunately. We are in love. They have chosen the cafe first. That will detain them at least 10 minutes. Run next door until Francoise will come here, let him bring Annette, the children, the entire family. Then go to Haines. Get people as many people as possible. Now, you two, help me bring these coffins into the power. We will put them out on shells. Annette, the most important, do not forget the priest. Yes, papa. Hey, what are we gonna do? Boy, do you always need a diagram? We're gonna have a funeral service. Ah, that is correct. I know you have never taken the part of corpses before, but it is quite simple. Yeah, yeah. See what I mean, kid? Stick with me. We just make one little move at a time. In just about five minutes, the coffins were set up in Edwin's poly. Down's an eye for each insight. The room was filled with people. Suddenly, there was a loud knock on the door. We will search this house. Search this house, Lieutenant. Some Americans are hiding in this house? If you intend to search this house, Lieutenant, I cannot prevent you, even though I have nothing to hide. But now, just now, this is not a happy time. Oh, oh, I see. My brother and my father both at the same time killed. I'm sorry, but it is the war. An artillery shell entered their house. I hope it was an American shell. I have my duty to perform. I understand. Yo, man, start the search. There will be no unnecessary noise. Grandfather. My poor grandfather. He's my good old glory. We shall start our duty as quickly as possible. All right. Edgar, I came as quickly as... What is this? Who is that? Father Pierre. Inside these coffins are two American soldiers hiding from the bush. Oh, I see. Very well. I shall conduct the service. I knew you would, Father. Thank you. Yes. Who are they supposed to be? My father and my brother are killed by a shell. What is it over here? You may continue with your service. I'm sorry I made you partake in a lie, Father Pierre. But it is not a lie, Edgar. Your father and your brother were killed by a shell in the First World War. Annette, have they gone? Your father, they've gone into the woods. You had better come out now. I want to thank you. What happened? Now we must take the coffins to the cemetery. You had better hide in the cellar. You will be safe for a while. Annette, remain with them and keep watch. Well, the funeral procession went off. But the guest of honor remained behind. That's when I really met Annette. She'd made us something to eat and brought out a bottle of wine. And where do you go now? Oh, I don't know. Now we're still making one little move at a time. You know, Annette, I don't think we can ever thank you enough for all you did. Oh, I have my reasons. We would have helped any American, but especially I did not want them to capture you. Really? Well, I bet you tell that to all the boys. It is enough that I tell it to you. Haines, look out for this girl. I do not even know your name. Well, I'm Joe Haines. Joe? Does that mean Jose? Joseph Haines. Oh, what a lovely name. Hey, something's happening outside. Listen, shells are falling out there. The outfit's attacking. Look, look through the window. It's the bathroom. They're coming. Honey, they're not coming. They're going. Down the jerry's upon us. Boy, I think we made it. Our guy should be found through here after him. No, no, you would believe me. Well, uh, yeah, I guess so. But you will come back. Tim, he's got a girl on every side. All right, down. Let's cut it. You will come back. Grab your carbine, boy. The jerry's are trying to hold that house across the street. Let's take a hand. You want to know something, Annette? I've got a long way to go, but... something tells me I'll be back soon.  We got him in a crossfire. I did come back. Annette says it was fake. I say I never would have met her if my squad didn't need dry socks. We argue about all the time, but neither of us care. We've been married almost 10 years now, and believe me, that's the most serious argument we ever have. Of course, Sergeant Downs, who was the best man at our wedding, has his ideas too, like Downs always said. Boy, when you're in a jam, just make one little move at a time. You'd be surprised where it leaves you. Sure. It led me right to the altar. Ask most anyone what they want out of life, and a great majority of the answers can be boiled down to just one word. But one word is happiness. Well, now happiness is a lot of different things to a lot of different people, but basically, I guess you might say that it's the achievement of your goals. To be happy is to be successful in whatever you do. And in today's highly specialized world, training is the key to success. If you're a young man of service age, you can get free training worth thousands of dollars by enrolling now in your United States Army's new Reserve for You training program. 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You're going to build the whole thing out of just plywood. I wanted to use a saw. Can I? Part of the saw came off.  How do we get this? How do we do this? So we're getting things for a doghouse. So what do we need? We need wood. We need nails. I don't know what else I need. Oh, yeah. Start a shingle roll. Yeah, that seems good. That seems grand. Start a shingle roll. Here's the thing that I'm thinking about. Is Spencer likes carpet a lot. But if the doghouse is going to be outside, the carpet's going to get gross. Guess I have to go down here now. Oh, turf. 139. Oh, I don't want to explain that one. Oh, this is perfect. Tiles. Nine tiles. That's nine square feet. Just what I need. Just what Spencer needs. It's wood done, baby. Do I have everything that I need? I don't know. Maybe. I could be missing a whole plethora of things. Am I doing a good job? No. Have I thought about this in any way, shape, or form? No. Other than I need to make a box for my dog. That's pretty much the only thing that I've I just got such a big whiff of big red. Somebody's chomping on big red right now.  Guys, I don't even know what I'm looking for right now. I'm just glancing at wood. Wood. Wood. Here I am, back from home depot. And we've really got ourselves some good tools in here. Oh, yeah, baby.  We got ourselves hip top shape wood. Could I fit it in my car? Yes. Why'd you ask? We got wood. We got other wood. There's more wood. We've got, hold on, turf for the inside. We got shingles for the rough nails that I almost forgot.  When we put tennis balls inside, because Spencer loves that. Let's get to building, baby. First things first, I need to do some measurements and I need to do some planning. I have to get my measuring tape. You stay here. I'll be back. You stay here. I'll be back. You can still hear me, baby. Yeah, you might be able to still hear me. I don't know if you can, but I am not grabbing. What do I need? Do I have my drill out there already? I don't think I do, so I'm going to grab my drill also. Why did I put my drill? The drill isn't in the drill zone.  Do I own a drill? Is my drill out here? I swear I own a drill. Not this thing, but this isn't what I want. Well, I better put my drill. Remember where my drill is? I remember.  Oh, wait, I need to get a Sharpie.  Is this mine? Yeah. Oh, delicious. First things first, we need to take some measurements. How big do we want this house to be? This is four feet by four feet-ish. I'm thinking you need something, maybe. We're going to go around two foot three. Shit. That's about right. If I wanted to use a saw, can I? Well, I can. Legally, right? I don't need a permit. I don't need. We're going to be resourceful here. When my dad did stuff, he always had a pen in his mouth. And so I think I think it's important that I also have a pen in my mouth. Take the first board where I make my mark. We'll have to re-measure it. That's the thing that you want to be doing, guys. You want to be measuring twice, cutting once, right? That's what they taught me back in the war. One foot, two foot, three. Hold on. One more thing. It'll only be a second. Just a moment. Hi, dad. Why are you laughing? What are you laughing about? It's not really anything fun. Listen, so I need your help, OK? Making a dog house, right? So I want this to be 2 and 1 half feet tall. It's just the wall. What's the design of this? Spass pro shops. No, the design of the dog house. I haven't thought of that. You make a box first, and then I'll go from there. You know what? You've really jumped the gun here. We're not even. I haven't even cut the wood yet. Most roofs are like this. So instead of that, there's just one pitch that goes like this from the front to the back on the side. Oh, so one side is taller than the other. The back wall is taller than the front wall? No, the roof to be. Angles, huh? So listen, I want to cut this, right? I have a circular saw. This is what that is, right? Yeah. You have a six foot metal left. No. So here's the line. Can I just cut it like this? No. Well, no, I bought these other things. What'd you get that for? I don't know. This side. But my question is, can I just rest this plywood on the wood and then just saw? If it's tall enough, yeah. OK, I should probably get glasses, right? What are you talking about with this? Yeah, I'm trying it again, but just for spence, because with the lessons I learned then.  All right, here. Well, there's nothing under here, right? I think it will work. Now that's a straight line so far. Is it OK for me to stand like this doing this? You think so?   Honestly, pretty straight so far. Pretty good so far. Here's the question. OK, OK, bear with me. Bear with me, OK? We've got this. Here, ready? Ready? Watch. Watch. This is genius at work. Maybe we do some. Now that's. I think that's a good amount of space for the boy. And look how even it is. Oh, well, that's the thing, though, is that this is the two and a half footer. So we've got to cut another board to two and a half feet or whatever the measurement was. I'm not sure. And then we use this guy in the middle for a floor. And look at all the weight that it can hold. I'm at least 200, 350 pounds. Give or take on a day. You know, we've been having hurricanes and earthquakes, everything all painted here in California. So that's what we're going to do. First piece is good to go. Second piece. Come on down. Your turn. What do you think OSHA is thinking about right now? OSHA? They make the rules. Part of the sock and off to pop this bad boy back in. Let me take the matter out.  See? When you're a big, old, strong man like me, you don't have to hire people to fix things for you. You just figure it out yourself, right? You just figure it out. That's the sound you want to hear. Other side. Good. There. Don't forget to stay hydrated out here. It's hot boy summer. And boy is it toasty out here. We need to drill pilot holes. I'm going to put it on gloves for safety. Wow. Good, good. So now, here's the thing. How do we get this? How do we do this? How do you do it? Not sure. Hold on, we'll question my dad. Hi, dad. So here's a question for you. So here's the pieces that I cut for the wall, right? So I'm going to use this as like a stilt, you know? So I'll put the floor on top of this. But I want to drill these into here and screw them into here. What's the best way to do that? Is this a four by four? Yeah. That's going to be the base. You're going to have a floor. Yeah. What are you going to do for a roof? More wood. If you have it like this, hold on. Do you have really short four by fours? Yeah. I had to build things. That's not going to stay up. It's going to fall over. Well, look what they, you know, they said a lot of things won't work, and they did. Like the moon. Well, I'll be back in about 15, 20, and I'll update you on my progress. He didn't really give me anything. Here's what we're doing. Here's the new plan. Put up a graphic. New plan, new plan, new plan. Putting this up like this. Putting this here. I was wondering why it felt so easy. It's not going anywhere. This is really well made so far. Pilot hole, smile it whole. Solidest of the issues born. Have you ever been built like this? Pouvoir? Toss it? Help. Side two, side two. Now, this is where we're really getting to go. You know, my dad said that I never build anything by myself ever. But look at me now, huh?  I'm building this doghouse. You're not even. Look at it. Oh, hold on. Just a process a little bit. Oh, she's going to be sturdy. Now, I'm going to do a couple of those. Come on. This is good. Now, we've got to get one in the middle, all right? And just a couple more guys in here. Take that one out. Now that we've got that side in and on, we can put in. We'll measure. How big is this? Two feet. Got to be. Put this bed up on here. This side now. Oh, it's got to be on both sides. That's going to show you that. Now it's time to drill this floor in. All one piece. Watch and learn. There's a master goes to work. We got this bad boy here, right? Going on the back. Something cool is about to happen. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.  Spencer's going to be the talk of the town with this thing. It's going to be like a Taylor Swift concert over here. People are going to be coming from all over town to see this. Baby, come on.  I'm writing it. The thing that people don't even realize sometimes, because they just don't know wood like I do, you kind of want a little bit of space in the back and on the sides and stuff where the elements can trickle in. Now, think of yourself. Well, why would you want that, Ethan? It's called an open floor plan. OK, it's called modern design. It's called reinventing the wheel. Do you think Michelangelo made art by doing what others did? No. He did something new. Do you think Jesus made his first little cabinet by following the rules of God? No. He's the ultimate sinner, which is why he was put in a cave. And he stayed there until he could make better furniture. Then he came out of the cave. Big sail. Big sail for Jesus. That's what Easter is about. That's why you get Easter presents, because it's the big sail of Jesus. Next nail. Good. All right, now you're thinking of yourself, Ethan. The roof's got to be done, right? Nay, let's look what we have here. Ever seen a top of the house before? It's fine. We can cut on top of the roof, because it's going to be covered up. Good, that's good enough for now.  I'm going to put this goober down, just like that. Peel it off, put her down, just like that.  It's a step and repeat process. But look what's happening here. The roof is starting to form. All right, so now what we've got to do is just take off the excess. Just come through here real quick. God damn, this is looking good. We're on to the final step. What's a good exterior without a good interior? Nature's carpet. Oh yeah, this will do splendidly. And that's a perfect interior. Come on. Who wouldn't love this? Who wouldn't love this, huh? Who wouldn't love this? I'm a good dog dad, all right? I want my son's home. I want my son's home to look good.  We want it to look finished. So one last little stain. A lot of stuff in my life. Had a lot of success, had a lot of accomplishments, but nothing quite brings it home like a gift to your own son. Much like giving back to your own family, passing down what you've learned, all the success that you've had, all the things that you've taken in life, and giving it to your dearest, the one that you care about the most, OK? The one that will carry on your legacy. I couldn't think of a better being to give all of my love to than Spencer. And I couldn't think of another being that I would want to put so much work into something as this. This is a labor of love. And here he comes now to receive his gift. I made this for you, bud. I made it for you. Spencer, Spencer, Spencer, please. Come here. Spencer, come here. Spencer, wait. Go see what's inside. Go see what's inside. Go. Go. Go see.  Kind of cool. Is it kind of cool? Do you think it's cool? I think he thinks it's kind of cool. You're my best friend. Did you know that? I made this for you because I love you and I care about you. And I just want you to be protected from the elements. Right? Thank you so much. Well, everyone, till next time. Thank you so much for coming on this journey. I hope you learned something today. And I'll see you later. Cha-cha real smooth.


Good afternoon. I'm Michael Barr, the Joan and Sanford Wildean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. I am honored today to recognize and celebrate the accomplishment of the Ford School Classes of 2021. Our outstanding graduates who have earned their bachelor's, master's of public policy, master's of public affairs, and doctoral degrees. Students choose the Ford School because they care about the greater good. They work hard while at Michigan, and they learn to work together. They graduate prepared with the knowledge and analytic expertise, the leadership prowess, and the writing and communication skills needed to design, advocate for, and implement good public policy. In that respect, the classes of 2021 are like any other graduating 40s. But of course, this class's experience at Michigan were not like any other. Most of today's graduates started their Ford School studies in the fall of 2019. Students, you might remember that semester for the launch of a major new center for diplomacy. We hosted amazing speakers, Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice in the same week, Samantha Power, Steve Began, Susan Rice, Dennis McDonough, and Steve Hadley. All those visits were in person with handshakes, packed auditoriums, and of course free food. That seems like a really long time ago. In the midst of winter term, the COVID pandemic upended our world, bringing so much suffering and loss, with devastating health and economic impacts disproportionately felt by the most vulnerable. By May and for week after week over the summer, the death of George Floyd and so many other black and brown people at the hands of the police spurred millions of Americans to take to the streets demanding racial justice. In the chaotic, scary months leading up to and following the November election, we experienced deepening divisions in the United States, rising racism and white nationalism, and both rhetorical and violent attacks on our democracy. Here on campus, we suffered through a divisive return to school last fall, and we weathered a widely supported strike by graduate students who called on the university to make real strides on public health and racial justice. When the pandemic hit last March and we moved suddenly to an unfamiliar new, remote world of learning, teaching, and work, I started what became a nightly email communication to the whole school for the remainder of the semester. Through those emails graduates, you learned perhaps far more than you ever wanted to about me. Tastes and romantic comedies, thoughts on the weather, our Passover menus, love for the Harry Potter movies, my good days and hard days. But along the way, I was trying to model a way forward through the crisis. With all of you so much on my mind recently, I looked back at some of those emails. On March 17th, just as we started remote classes, I wrote, crises help us to remember who we are and what we stand for. The Ford School is a community dedicated to the public good. And in the days and months since graduates, you've shown that's true. You've demonstrated who you are. You are leaders grounded in service. You helped vulnerable communities, armed policymakers with facts and tools, worked with nonprofits and small businesses, marched for racial justice, listened and learned and stood up. You protected each other's health, offered an outstanding education and kept our community connected and turned out the vote standing up for our democracy. The crisis revealed you as resilient and strong. You persevered to complete your Ford School degree and you helped each other and so many others along the way. Graduates, we've weathered this whole brutally hard year together. Together as a community dedicated to the public good. Our shared experiences this past year have bonded us together forever. I know that for the rest of my life, I'll remember with great warmth and gratitude this class and the faculty and staff who taught and mentored you and kept our mission moving forward. I speak for the entire faculty and staff of the Ford School when I say we're proud of you. We believe in you, in your capacity and your conviction and your preparation and your empathy to take on the great challenges before us. Congratulations on all you've accomplished in Michigan. My heartfelt gratitude and best wishes to the classes of 2021. Go Blue!


Okay, I'd say let's go ahead and dive in because we may not get quorum and that's that's something that we may need to revisit at the board level what quorum is. Fortunately, we have only two fairly non consequential votes today of approving meeting minutes from the last two parish meetings so not too worried about not having quorum. So I will go ahead and share my screen and then let me make sure that's working the way I want it to. Do people see just the slide saying spring parish meeting? Yeah, all right. That is great. Well, welcome to our spring parish meeting. I'm happy to see everybody and as I was saying before everyone jumped on we have yet to dive into having a hybrid parish meeting might be something in our future for now. Zoom meetings are a little bit easier to manage as far as voting and things like that than having it in multiple places. So here's where we are today. Hopefully some people are enjoying our outside listening to the meeting too. That's one one advantage there. All right, so we're going to start out with just some opening words. Thank you. So these are the words from Alicia Ford. When we pause to remember who we are, companions on this grand experiment called life. When we take a moment to shed the ways we have been carefully taught to lead from fear to punish the poor to persecute those who don't look like we do to deny rights to those who love to believe that we are separate that some are superior. When we take a moment to shed all of that and hear our stories here and see each other into existence into community. When we take a moment to embrace to practice a different way of being when we answer the call of love, then we are living into the promise of building the world we dream about. It is beautiful to dream to cast a vision to stretch our minds into the future and imagine what may be if we were to build a new way of being, not someday, but beginning today, beginning again every day that we have breath, taking courage with these hands and hearts to make real the dream of a more equitable world. To journey together, seeking to be transformed, even as we transform. Becoming explorers and learners in this world around us, humbled by what we do not yet know, fulfilling the promise of healing a fragmented world, laboring not just in hope, but also in love. In this spirit we commit. In this spirit, we gather. In this spirit, we pray. Right. Well, let's dive into reviewing our agenda here. So we just heard our opening words. We, as I said, are going to approve minutes from the last two parish meetings that did not have quorum. And we have a couple of announcements, things to look forward to that we want to dive into a little bit deeper. We've also recently developed a task force to explore our mission. So introducing them and what their work will be about. And then many people have probably read about our vision of ministry and our strategic priorities. And we have now compiled some goals throughout both the board and the staff. And we want to share how we'll be living into that with you as well. One thing that I wanted to just bring up before before we dive in is that I know that top of a lot of people's minds right now is the issues that the board has brought up in the two communications recently about our relationship with with Michael Shuler. This was a super complex, emotional, tense situation. But because of those things that we found has been a lot easier to navigate in small group discussion sessions. We have been conducting a number of listening sessions that are intended to be a discussion between the board, the healthy congregations team, the ministers, and congregants. Many people have found them to be very helpful. And so I'd encourage people to sign up for one of those. If you'd like to discuss that further at the beginning of the conversation, if one of the board members actually could chat in the link to that sign up, that would be great. And the board's absolutely committed to continue discussions there as well. So feel free to always reach out to us at fusprous at gmail.com. The healthy congregations team is also here for support, processing the situation. If that's more of what you need versus kind of questions or feedback for the board. And of course, both Kelly's are always here for pastoral care related to any issue. But this issue as well. So and I also wanted to mention that any chats during this meeting, there's a few people you can choose there, but please send them to Creole. She's going to be collecting any questions or comments for this meeting. So if you have chats, you can send them to Creole's hearing. All right. So everyone should have handouts for the meeting. And if someone, there we go, just got that chatted in. So you have the agenda, our minutes from last two meetings, and also our relational covenant, which we always want to keep at the front of all of our conversations together. All right. So as folks are used to on these zoom meetings, so we'll have have pretty similar rules of procedure here as we have in the past. We will obviously everyone's on zoom. As I said, quorum has not been established. I think right, Kelly, can I check in with you again? This quorum been established? It has not. I've got 64. Okay. So then we're going to actually not need the rules of procedure because we can't vote. So we'll we'll again move the voting on the the minutes back to the next one. As I said, review quorum again, we may be able to circle back if we establish quorum throughout the meeting as people join later on in the meeting. All right. So we will skip our approval and dive into a couple exciting things coming up. So I will first hand it over to the Kelly's to give you a few more details about how service is going to happen. Do you want me to start? You want to start? No, go ahead. So we do we are very excited about things that are coming up. So a few and before I dive into that, Mike, may I see that your hands up? And I just want to make sure was just looking at the bylaws. It says 70 members or 20% of the average weekend attendance. Do we know if our average weekend attendance is anywhere near whatever that would take to need 70 members? Yeah, Monica and I conferred about this a little bit in advance. And I guess it depends a little bit on how you want to read the bylaws. If we count our views on YouTube as part of the weekend attendance, then, which I think we should be doing because our premise is that that is that is attendance and participation is to watch the service via the YouTube way. Then we don't our attendance is too high to save on the 20% of that of all the combined numbers would be over seven. Thank you. That was my question. I was just wondering. Thanks. Thanks for asking, Mike. There's an old nuance of in the digital world, I guess for absolutely, absolutely. So for upcoming services, things were really excited about. So May 14th and 15th coming of age services. Those kiddos have been away on their wilderness retreat this weekend, the one where they spend the six hours in the woods. I am super excited to get home and hear about it. My Sam was on that wilderness retreat. So Sam will be giving his belief statement in the Saturday service. And oddly enough, he doesn't want to talk to his mother about it at all. I I can't fathom that I feel like he's missing out. So coming of age, also that weekend, you're going to hear more about it in a little bit is our installation. So Kelly and I being installed as your co senior ministers. We've been having so much fun pulling that together. We feel like we've asked our colleagues that we love and adore to take part. And so we're super excited. And we hope that many of you can be here with us in person. It'll also of course be on YouTube. And then Flower Communion. And here's the thing I just realized the other day, putting together the May newsletter. And I know I saw Pete, Pete and Margie are here there. I see you on my screen Pete. Pete, I think this is the 30th anniversary of our partnership. 1992. So Flower Communion. Am I right, Margie? Yes. Yes. So I think so. I think so. Yeah, I'm vague on the 90s, especially the early 90s. I'm vague on the early 90s. Oh yeah. I know I had really big hair. That's what I was in the 70s. So Flower Communion, the that following weekend, the 21st and the 22nd, and we will be somehow figuring out to celebrate in a special way, 30 years of partnership with Nagyota. Yeah. So that is going to be a beautiful weekend as well. Then the weekend after that, when we switch to our one summer service, every Sunday at 10am, we're going to try something different this year.  So kids and adults, everybody, we're going to be together for that service. And then we're going to create some kind of activities after service for all ages during coffee hour that folks can do together. So we're we're going to be having some fun this summer whole community, everybody together Sundays at 10am. Am I forgetting anything, Kelly? If you are, then I've also forgotten. Yeah. Beautiful. Thank you. Is there anything special happening for Mother's Day? There will be a service on Mother's Day, and I'm sure that the mamas in the house will be acknowledged and celebrated. I don't think we have any specific special pro. Oh, I should mention is Roz Woodward on the line, because I know that the Peace Polls thing that she organizes, that's usually the vicinity of Mother's Day. And I know that she is doing it this year. She was taking down some names about it when she was here for the Easter services. So that event, which I think people who have experienced it before know more about than I do, I just know it's Roz's thing. And I'm happy that she's doing it. That will be happening that weekend. We do also have a parish meeting in June, early June. On June 5th. Yeah, okay. And that that Sunday, June 5th in the morning at 10am will be our blessing of the animal service. So if you have an animal in your life that you'd want to bring in and Kelly and I can bless it, we'd really appreciate it. June 5th, I don't know, isn't that some national holiday? It is. Somebody's birthday. I love when my birthday is on a parish meeting. It happens every few years. Such a treat. Yeah, someone said to me the other day, what are you doing for your birthday this year? I said, I'm blessing animals and doing a parish meeting like it doesn't get any better than that. And happy birthday, Dorit Bergen, whose birthday was yesterday. Yes, happy birthday Dorit. Awesome. Thank you, Kelly and Kelly. We appreciate it. Some good stuff to look forward to. Oh, right. Can you all see my screen again? Awesome. I'm going to hand it over to Lorna then and Anne, I think, to talk a little bit about our youth advisors some more. Some years ago, I don't remember how long ago it was 10 or 12. We changed the bylaws to include youth members. The youth members have to have completed the coming of age class and signed the membership book. And for the last two years, I've had the pleasure of being the board mentor to one or both of our interns. And I just can't say enough for how much interns I said, youth are youth members. I just can't say enough about how much they add out. They surprise me every time that they take a different look at things that the adults are looking at. And saying, Well, have you thought of it this way? Have you thought of it that way? And so it was just a stroke of genius to include youth members. And I just really love chatting with them and helping them sort of figure out how they can fit in. I think Anne has a particular thing to say about one of our youth also. Yes, I do. I had the deep pleasure of working with Ava Rochester on establishing and writing the relational covenant. And I'll tell you the reason we have a relational covenant that is as pulled together as it is is due to Ava and her lightning skills on Google Docs. She really made it go in a couple hours instead of several days if I had been doing it. And also just her razor sharp understanding of the principles and the use of language. So a special shout out to Ava. Thank you, Ava. All right, I lost my control somewhere on my screen. Thank you, Lorna and Anne. And we are, since Ava has served her two terms, we're excited to have Finn back on the board for a second term this coming church year. And since Ava has now served two terms, we're also looking for another youth advisory member for the board. So something to think about if you have children that have gone through the coming of age program, or if there's youth on right now who could potentially be candidates for that, feel free to reach out to us. All right. And lastly, of course, we heard about the the installation, but want to dive a little deeper into that. And hear a little bit from our planning committee. So I will hand it over to Dorit, I believe. Is that right? Yep. Awesome. Thanks Dorit. Hi, everyone. Some of this is a bit of a repeat, but this is so important that it bears repeating. On May 15th, a very important and joyful event in the history of our congregation will take place. We will witness and affirm the installation of our co senior ministers, Reverend Kelly Crocker, and Reverend Kelly Aspruth Jackson. We will have the wonderful opportunity to extend hospitality to our minister's colleagues from near and far, and to our minister's families from near and far. The service of installation will take place at 3pm.  You will have received an email invitation to this very special event. We hope you have already marked it on your calendar and that you have or will RSVP. The email also included a link to a sign up genius page to participate as a volunteer to share your time to help set up or serve or clear to share your talent, such as maybe cooking or flower arranging, or to share your treasure and in the form of a small donation. The RSVP and the sign up genius links will also be in the red floors for the next several weeks. And we are very much hoping that we will all come together to throw our ministers and ourselves on heck of a party. Thank you so much, Dorit. Very much looking forward to it and huge thanks to Dorit and Jean and Emily for helping clear the event. Okay, great. So now I'd like to talk a little bit about the mission task force that's been recently created. Diving into some people are more familiar with mission work than others. But what we're looking at is trying to determine our congregations purpose. So who who are we? What are what? Who are we called to be in the world or in the context that we live in? What should we be doing? We know our principles. We have a lot to pull from our movement, but our specific congregation. What is our mission? So if you're thinking about mission, something that the change is very little over time. I believe has not been revisited at us. That's about 2003. And so as you can imagine, as a new ministry is established with Kelly AJ and Kelly C now is a great time to look at it again and see what still feels relevant to us, what might maybe needs to be added or changed. One exciting thing about this is this is the first time that we'll be developing a mission with congregational involvement, which I think is is a neat aspect to bring into view that sense of shared ministry. So this is about the congregation as a whole. I pulled this quote because I really appreciate it as far as for those of us who like a little bit more of a visual image of what mission is and something a little more metaphorical. And I'll I know it's in front of you here, but I'll just read it. If a religious community is like a large boat traveling across the sea, its mission is like a map of where it wants to go on the journey. Without a mission, the boat is merely a drift susceptible to the whims of wind and surf, or it is commandeered by whoever is the most opinionated and determined to seize control of its steering wheel. Having a clear mission helps us to know that we are on in route toward our goals. And I want to, even though they they have yet to start their work, they've just come together. I want to give a huge thank you to those that will be involved in this work. You can see their names here. A great group of folks, I think. And what one thing that I want to point out here is that as we were talking about this work as a board, we were thinking about kind of what that content of this, you know, what what kinds of activities this group might be involved with, and thinking, oh, you know, we will want to talk to the congregation, hear their thoughts about, you know, what what our mission could be. And kind of stopped in our tracks and said, we just did a lot of that as part of the ministerial search, doing a lot of small group listening sessions to hear how people view our congregation, what's important to them in our congregation. And so a lot of this work is going to involve going back through some of those some of those documents and notes and and understanding what we can pull from those. And I think that and I think that the the work could involve maybe broader conversations, but they want will want to see what we can get from what's already been established and created before diving into kind of what could be repetitive work from what we have done in the last couple of years as part of the interim process. I'm very excited about that mission work. And that leads us right into our vision of ministry as well. And so for 2020 and 2023, we have three elements of this vision of ministry that I think will look familiar to you. We want to dive in a little bit more concretely, though, to where what where this is going to take us, what what's the board doing to try to achieve this vision of ministry, what our staff doing, and where all of it can fit in. So our first vision, our first vision of ministry, our first element here is about our relationships with each other. So consistent with our relational covenant, create an atmosphere of trust and respect that encourages dialogue and healthy relationships. And so I have a few folks here to help me share what's what's going on with that. So I'm going to start with Becky Burns, if you'd like to talk a little bit about the healthy congregation team. Absolutely. Thanks, Alyssa. So the healthy congregation team formed in October of 2021. So we're still within our first year. We wanted to let you know, kind of review what the healthy congregation team is, and tell you a little bit about the work we've been doing thus far. So the initial four members of the team are Barb Avery, Rob Savage, Roz Woodward, and me, with Anne Schaffer serving as our board liaison and Kelly Crocker as our team minister. You may have read this, we wrote it up for a newsletter back in January, I'm just taking a small paragraph out of that. The healthy congregation team is committed to helping the congregation remain a healthy community that's grounded and direct, honest and caring communication in an atmosphere of openness, trust and respect. We believe conflict can be addressed and resolved constructively in keeping with our UU principles. We're committed to the safety and well being of all of our members and friends. And with the relational covenant as our guide, the healthy congregation team provides a consistent and supportive option when conflict does arrive. So some of our activities thus far, since we were created again since last October, we've created a step by step process to address conflict that includes self reflection, dialogue, facilitation, and as necessary mediation. We started to support members of our congregation so that they can voice their concerns and reach resolution with other members of our congregation. We are receiving training currently that Anne's about to talk about in a moment, so I'll not steal her thunder. And we've had a presence at all of the recent listening sessions, and have established an email account for all members of FUS to use, if you'd like to reach us at any time. Our upcoming activities include as a team to develop a presence on the FUS website, and begin to offer some monthly opportunities for some open dialogue among members of FUS. So that's kind of the update from the healthy congregations team. Thank you, Becky. And thank you so much to you and all of the other healthy congregation team members for for doing this work. I really appreciate it. As Becky mentioned, Anne is going to share a little bit about our training. Anne? Well, yes, we've been able to take advantage of our wonderful community resource, Kathy German, who has been doing all kinds of relational training for many years in the Madison community. We decided to have a training because we wanted to operationalize the relational covenant. So we we meaning that healthy congregation team, the Board of Trustees, Kelly, AJ, Kelly, Crocker, and Monica, all have participated in. I think at this point, we've had most of our training 12 hours, and we have a few hours left for a final session that's in a couple of weeks. Kathy has been really fantastic in terms of outlining where people get stuck in conflict resolution, ways to communicate ways to examine our own assumptions where we're coming from, and ways to ground ourselves so that we can approach conflict from a point of centering, as opposed to reacting. We're hoping, we're hoping that these role plays that we've done, these models that we've seen will be useful to the whole congregation in the ripple kind of effect that having the people that have had the training will be able to have in the congregation. Thank you. Thank you, Anne. And Kelly Crocker, can you talk a little bit about the relational covenant and staff covenant being introduced in programming? Absolutely. And before I get into that, a couple of folks have asked about how to contact the Healthy Congregation Team. That email is healthycongregation at FUSMadison.org. And I will put that in the chat as well. But it's pretty easy, Healthy Congregation at FUSMadison.org. So this first one for staff, what I love is that almost all the staff areas talked about introducing and revisiting the relational covenant at the first meeting of adult education programs, offerings, journey circles, of course, at ministry team meetings. One of the things I really love in the realm of children's religious exploration is bringing the relational covenant into all of the teacher training so that there's an awareness among all of our volunteer teachers about the relational covenant. And one I'm really excited about that Leslie has in here is to share the relational covenant with our older kiddos. So seventh, eighth, and ninth grade, grounding the work that they're doing in compass points and mind, body and soul and coming of age in our relational covenant. I love that one a lot. And yeah, that is one of my, my favorites. Continuing with this idea of this atmosphere of trust and respect. So going beyond the relational covenant on paper, staff are really looking at how do they bring this to life? How do they keep this as a living document in the work that we do? And one of the things they're looking at is asking the Healthy Congregation team to work with them as staff in taking the work that we're learning, board and team and leadership team, taking the work that we're learning with Kathy Gurman and, you know, being in situations where we may be dealing with conflict. How do we take that work and bring it into staff so that staff then have those tools and that awareness as they're working with all of their teams? Thank you, Kelly. I want to back up for one second because I've gotten a couple of chats that have come in and have corrected something I said earlier. And so I appreciate the accountability here. So I had mentioned that it would be the first time that the congregation would be involved in developing a mission. And thank you to those that have chatted in saying that there was some congregational work with the mission in the 90s and perhaps the Vision 2000 that came about during while Vicki Jones was president of the board. So I appreciate that backup. Always let me know if there's something that I've said that doesn't bring true for you. Thanks, everyone. So I'm going to move us on to our next our next element of our vision of ministry here. So as individuals and a congregation recognize our accountability for and commitment to dismantling racism and other forms of systemic oppression. And so I am going to turn it over to Creole to talk about one of our board goals in this category. Yeah, thanks, Melissa. I'm just going to pull up my document. So we I think our primary goal in this is to just continue to instill and encourage as well as financially support board members involvement with a variety of resources and sources that are out there that help us to, you know, commit to this this category. So there's some examples, including UUA itself has a program called Beloved Conversations, which I'm sure a lot of you participated in. When it when it happened last year, maybe the year before, there's also another program called Nehemiah Black History for a New Day. And so we as a board have just committed to encouraging each board member and new ones specifically as they come on who may have not taken a program like this to participate in this in a program like this, and also specifically to help support any financial obligations that a program like that might entail. I'm going to pass it back. Creole. Appreciate it. We're excited about participating in some of those activities and expanding, expanding our knowledge there. And then the I'll pass it over to Kelly AJ to talk a little bit about some of the work going on within the UU movement regarding this call. So I'm going to need to share my screen here. Okay, everyone see the slide. So this is going to require a little bit of background. I'm going to try and take you through this quickly, but also in relatively deep level of detail because I think it's important information for everyone to have. So I'm starting here with here are the current version of the seven principles need to change versatility. Likely, this document is familiar to you at some level. I find that almost all in terrain universalists have some familiarity with the first and maybe the seventh principle. And smaller groups than that have some kinds of the fact that there are seven of them and a smaller group than that can probably name three or four of them and a smaller group than that can can rattle off all of them. That's a relatively small group. It may or may not be known to you that this is a living document. It is not etched in stone. It's not established for all time. Immutably, it is rather something that as a religious movement, we have chosen to revise in the past and could revise again, the last revision of this document was in 1987. I know that we have a wide variety of different relationships to the year 1987 on this call. But for me, it was passed in June. That would mean that I was finishing kindergarten. So it has been this way for almost all of my life. And I grew up reciting the this version of the principles and the reason why I am highlighting this, making sure we're all on the same page about we have seven principles as an association. And these are they is that we are entering a period where they may be about to change again, at least to some degree. And I want to explain to you how and why and give you the information you need in order to participate in that process if you want to. So and I just want to highlight one more thing before changing this slide, which is note what it says near the top of the page. The seven principles are actually part of a essentially a run on sentence connected by semi colons that begins with we the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association coveted to affirm and promote. So I want to highlight to you that the principles are a statement made collectively by all of our congregations in the association together. And so certainly has a bearing on each individual congregation because each congregation is a party to that. But note that it's not a statement of individuals. And so I also want to underline Unitarian Universalists have a really wide variety of opinions and relationships to the principles themselves. I mean, I said, I already owned, I've been reciting these my whole life. They're pretty important to me. But they don't necessarily have to be what speaks to you about Unitarian Universalists. I have colleagues, in fact, other ministers who think, yeah, the principles I don't really I don't I don't really like them very much. I don't find them very useful. I don't think they're a good summary of who we are and what we're actually about. So I don't really use them in the course of my work. So you're allowed to have your relationship to them. I don't want you to think that this is the be all and end all of what it means to be Unitarian Universalists. That's a much larger and more varied discussion. But it is a document that we share as an association of congregations. So this is the current version of it. And there is a proposal. There's always one or two proposals out there living for some kind of change in the wording of the principles. But there's a pretty active proposal right now, which has been gathering some steam for the last it started about nine years ago, been more active for the last five, to add an eighth principle, an eighth principle which in the proposed wording would read, remember again that this is completing the sentence, we have for we come into affirm and promote, journeying towards spiritual wholeness by working to build the diverse multicultural beloved community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions. This may be, this is probably news to many of you. Some of you may already be familiar with it. If you read the U.E. World magazine on a regular basis or if you're connected with other Unitarian Universalists, other congregations, you might well have encountered this before. My understanding is that it's not been something that we've been discussing much at FUS over the last several years. Understandable reasons, times of ministerial transition often are times when the congregations are less tuned in to the going on a lighter movement, and also there's been a pandemic. So, you know, don't, you're no way to be faulted if you haven't heard about this before, but I want you to hear about it now. So, you're again allowed to have your own opinion about this potential eighth principle and its potential wording. Because my thinking on the subject has changed over time. I just want to share one data point with you. It's not because I think you need to agree with it, but because as I said, I've evolved here and I want to share how. When I first read this proposed wording, which was about five-ish years ago, I thought, well, I certainly support what it's calling for, disbanding racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions, amen, I'm bored with that. But that seems to me to be implied by several of the other principles. The first principle, the inherent worth and dignity of every person, to me demands the dismantling of racism and other oppressions in ourselves and other institutions. The second principle, justice, equity, compassion, human relations, to me demands dismantling racism and other oppression. And I could say that about certainly principle six, principle seven, even principle five. I'd be happy to make the argument all imply what I see in principle eight. And as someone who's, you know, lived most of my life with the seven principles, I have lots of things that I like about the arrangement of the seven of them, the way that numbers one and seven form a foundation with similar parallelism between second, between two and six and some parallelism between three and five with sort of four as the natural pinnacle of kind of a pyramidal structure. I mean, I've taught classes about the seven principles before and there's certain poetic elegance to them. So the idea of adding an eighth that I thought, okay, it seems like it's kind of repeating things that I think are already true in the existing document, I was initially reticent about. I want to be honest about that.  And she said something kind of similar to this, right, that having grown up unitarian universalist, having been deeply connected with the principles for entire life, she thought that what is said here in the eighth principle is directly implied by several, it's not all of the other principles. And despite that, despite this being our text since 1987, we still have so much more work to do, to dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and in our institutions. And for that reason, she was in favor of adding the eighth principle to help foster a positive change in the force and direction that we move together as a faith community. And that was the argument that made it click for me. Again, you don't have to. I want it, I'm just trying to share with you a dialogue that is happening in the larger movement and that you can participate in if you want to and that this congregation may very well want to involve itself in. Because a number of unitarian universalist congregations is part of an effort to basically a sort of grassroots movement to get this eighth principle added to the current wording of the principles and purposes have specifically endorsed that move. We're up to 140 U.S. congregations endorsing the principle as of April 10th of this year. That's the last time I have a report on that. Because we are roughly 1,000 member congregations, the association is just slightly less actually, but close to. 140 translates I think easily into about 14 percent which is obviously not a majority that's, you know, a thing to lift up, but also a huge amount of our congregations to all get to do one thing together. We don't, you know, we're a diverse group, so all doing the same thing is pretty unusual move. Interestingly, the Canadians, so you may or may not know, the Canadian congregations used to be part of the Unitarian Universalist Association. They broke off and formed their own organization in the early 2000s. The Canadian Unitarian Council has already adopted an eighth principle. They did that November of last year and their eighth principle wording isn't the same, but it's obviously similar. Individual and so again to affirm and promote individual and communal action that accountably dismantles racism and systemic barriers to full inclusion in ourselves and our institutions. So our Canadian cousins have already made a change in this direction. And so here is what is happening and what is going to happen in the wider movement around the possibility of an eighth principle. Because of the grassroots congregational support for this potential change, we don't change, we can change the principles and purposes, but if we don't do so casually in our movement specifically, an intentionally complicated and long-term process. So the first step was that the commission, the Article II Study Commission, was appointed by the Unitarian Universalist Association's Board of Trustees. They began their work in the fall of 2020. They have conducted and are still conducting worship workshops, surveys, interviews, open office hours to collect input on the existing wording of the principles and purposes. I'm going to say a little bit more about what that is in a second. And what potential changes people might be interested in seeing. We're not interested in seeing things that people felt like you need to protect this or this part needs to not change. So they are still collecting data on that and I'm going to share some links of the chat once I finish this part for that will give you some opportunities to participate if you're interested in being part of any of those conversations. So they're going to submit a report to the UUA Board by January of 2023. They're committed to doing that. From that report, it is possible that the Board will then submit a potential revision to our principles for consideration at the General Assembly, which happens in June of 2023. So that's the first time that this will come up for any vote at the level of the General Assembly. Remember the General Assembly is our annual governance meeting attended by delegates theoretically hopefully from each congregation and the association. You get a certain number of delegates in rough proportion to your adult membership. Ministers and credential religious educators are also automatic delegates to that body. So there will be if there will be a report. That's the only thing that I can say will happen definitely. If the Board finds in that report recommendations it wants to pass to the General Assembly to actually consider, they may not, but I think it's likely that they will. It'll be voted on first General Assembly 2023. It can be amended after any assembly. But it may not be. So the amendment process is its own ball of wax and so there may or may not be an amendment to whatever recommended change is being considered. It must pass by a simple majority. If it doesn't pass by a simple majority in 2023, it's just done. There won't be any further discussion about it. It's dead. And in fact the bylaws say that you can't even consider the same or a similar change to the principles and purposes if it failed once. You can't consider it again for another year. So there's like a cooling down period. You have to not try and get a second bite at the apple. But if it does pass, it does get at least a simple majority vote in 2023. It will then be put on the agenda for 2024. So just passing one vote at General Assembly will not change the principles. In 2024 it can be, it will be discussed again if it passed in 2023. If it was amended in 2024, it can be amended, sorry it was amended in 2023. It can be amended again in 2024 but with a much more arduous and difficult process. If it wasn't amended in 2023, it can't be amended in 2024. And the only option will be to vote on it up or down. In order to finally become a real change in the principles, there will need to be a majority vote of at least two thirds. That second vote in 2024 and that's the thing that will add it or change it or make whatever revision is proposed to the principles and purposes. And so here I want to show you, I know this text is small, but this is the entirety of the section in the Unitarian Universalist Association bylaws, which is where this stuff lives. The entirety of the Article II section. You will see that it includes the principles, all seven of them here in the upper left corner, but then also the text that's usually described as the sources. There are six sources, some of you know I'm particularly attached to the sources document. I think it's meaningful piece of writing. But then beyond that, there's the concluding paragraph to that section about pluralism and our mutual trust and support that we owe to each other as congregations. There is another entire section called the purposes of the association, which basically outlines what the association exists to do right now. That's mainly to support our member congregations, to organize new congregations, and to forward our values in the public square. The statement on inclusion, which I think interestingly, the statement on inclusion, has a lot of things to say that are very analogous to the wording in the proposed eighth principle. So, you know, that's another potential area that might be revised. And finally, what's usually called the freedom clause, section C24, which actually comes to us from the Universalist side of our heritage, and which is like those sort of just to make sure everybody's clear here, we don't engage in creedal tests. Even this document itself is not meant to serve as one, so you can be a Unitarian Universalist without needing to officially subscribe to it. All of that is on the table for potential revision. I don't know what parts are likely to or not likely to receive revision, although I think it's especially unlikely anyone's going to touch the freedom clause. I think that's a third rail. So, that's my little rundown on the conversation that's happening. Again, the work of the Article II Task Force is still ongoing. They've been working for two and a half years now, but it's still ongoing and there's still opportunities to participate. I'm going to put two links in the chat once I close this window and have access to the chat again, which will be, one, they have a survey that they would like all Unitarian Universalists who are interested in any of this to take. That survey has been open for a while now. It's only open for one more week. I recognize that that's not as much time as I would have liked to have given you to do this, but it's also a whole week. So, if you're really energized about this, you want to get your voice in the system, you'll have that opportunity. So, I'll send that link into the chat. And then also they are conducting open office hours, sort of listening sessions by Zoom for anybody who wants to come talk to them about the process, anyone who wants to express their feelings about it. Again, some of those have already happened, but there are two remaining that haven't happened yet, and I will put the link to the page with that information on it into the chat. Thank you, Callie. I appreciate it. That leads very nicely into my screen again here. As you can can see, a lot of our, a lot of our elements in our vision of ministry are very interrelated, and I think that that's a good tie between the, our second one and the third one, which is to show up as authentic partners in collaboration within our local community and a nomination. So, I am going to hand it to Lorna again to talk about an activity that has been discussed a little bit at FUS recently. Thank you. A couple of things. One is that the board, in addition to the things that Crayol mentioned, the board has made a commitment to, for board members to go to the, some of the regional and general assembly meetings that are coming up. The UUA is divided into a number of regions, and we're in the Mid-America region. Dor, as a matter of fact, Dorit Bergen from FUS is on the board of the Mid-America region. What we're going to be doing, so we're going to be going to either virtually or in person to some regional meetings and the general assembly that's coming up so that we have a presence there as we have often in the past. One of the things that's come up, I've personally had some conversations with people, and I think others have as well, about the bringing back into our structure the Denominational Affairs Ministry team. With the way our structure works when there is a movement or an interest on the part of members for particular activity, the members gather together and affiliate with a staff member to form the new ministry team. That's kind of a ritual that we've adopted since our change in the government structure when we did away with all those committees and that sort of thing. So these ministry teams arise in response to particular opportunities or interests, and so this is just an alert that we're going to be looking to the formation of a new ministry team. I didn't clear this with Kelly AJ, but in terms of a members who are interested in being a part of the formation of the Denomination Authorist Ministry team, I think it's safe to say that Kelly AJ would be the staff person who would likely take the lead, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, but we will be sending out more information, invitations, and try to come up with some greater clarity on what such a team would do, how it would operate, and how it would pull together with this third element of the vision of ministry in showing up as authentic partners in collaboration with our local community and Denomination. So that's just a heads up of something that's coming down the road, and you can watch for opportunities to engage with that. Thanks, Lorna. All right, and I will, oh I'm not shooting my screen anymore. Great, thank you everyone for walking through those. I know the board and the staff have put a lot of work into thinking through how to engage with these, this vision of ministry, so that it's not just words on paper, but actual actions that we're taking to live out that vision. And with that, I know we are 131, so I will hand it over to Kelly H. A. to close us out with the closing words. Well friends, we didn't plan this, and that should be obvious because we wouldn't have planned it this way, but I literally chose as our closing reading the same reading that Kelly chose for the opening reading. That's okay, that's all right. I found another one, so here to close us out are some words from Bill Singford, former president of the Unitarian Versal Association among other distinctions. Spirit of life and love, dear God of all nations, there is so much work to do. You have only begun to imagine justice and mercy. Help us hold fast to our vision of what can be. That we see the hope in our history and find the courage and the voice to work for that constant rebirth of freedom and justice. That is our dream. Amen. Thank you Kelly, and thank you everyone for coming today. Please go out and enjoy the sunshine. It's nice to see everyone's faces. Thank you, Alyssa. Bye-bye, thanks.


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