08.30.15 SERMON “Questions People Often Ask about UUism” ~ Rev. Aaron White

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This minister impresses me repeatedly. I was especially impressed with how he took the life of Ralph Waldo Emerson to explain how to be a Unitarian. (I was jaded about Emerson, thinking he had little to offer besides some fine poems and rather sententious essays, but I was wrong.) My UU congregation will soon be presented with a candidate for senior minister after a two-year interim, and the selection committee is weighing three candidates, all of whom they consider excellent. I hope the final choice is close to the caliber of Aaron White. (It might even be Aaron White, if he can bear to leave Texas!) But the question of whether human nature is or is not basically good--that no longer interests me. I know human beings are capable of being either, and for me the most interesting question is how they can be nurtured and educated to be good rather than evil.