<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Pat—Thanks for sharing the reading.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Related, I'm sharing a recent sermon by the minister of the Neshoba UU church in TN regarding Article II.  <span style="color:rgb(46,46,46)">The minister gives a good overview of the changes and shares her own view in the second half.  Not the best sound quality but it gives us a glimpse of what some UU ministers might be thinking about the proposed changes to the UUA bylaws.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(46,46,46);font-family:arial"><</span><a href="https://neshoba.buzzsprout.com/214696/12570687-whew-my-brain-is-tired-article-ii-project" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial">https://neshoba.buzzsprout.com/214696/12570687-whew-my-brain-is-tired-article-ii-project</a><span style="color:rgb(46,46,46);font-family:arial">> "Whew! My Brain Is Tired: Article II Project" (</span><a href="http://buzzsprout.com/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial">buzzsprout.com</a><span style="color:rgb(46,46,46);font-family:arial">)</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(46,46,46);font-family:arial"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(46,46,46);font-family:arial">Kenji</span></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 5:17 PM Pat Herbst <<a href="mailto:pgherbst@umich.edu" target="_blank">pgherbst@umich.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi guys<div>I came across this reading that seems quite apropos given the looming changes in UUA Article II. </div><div>For those of you who are new, we've had some discussions in the last two years about the shifts in UUA's theology from being a liberal, creedless religion to becoming part of the woke establishment. The paper enclosed provides historical and demographics data that are quite relevant.</div><div>Pat</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Pat Herbst</b></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Professor of Mathematics Education</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Editor in Chief, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Marsal Family School of Education | University of Michigan</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">610 East University Avenue | Room 4117</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ann Arbor, MI | 48109-1259 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">734.763.3745 | <a href="mailto:pgherbst@umich.edu" target="_blank">pgherbst@umich.edu</a></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:195px;height:26px"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/irvcxY5zS2aDLgZ9AbdiriAR17IFoE0VphlQRoOxMSUlyRze5CAXTtmYxznyvI0hLNFF9v2zYGKvfkfKjn0YvGAFEtvYaDxIgNar-9EFWJl0GyR6szLswfjp_g6X_1LAes49F7Ok9ue8nq4gnwFhb-o" width="195" height="26"></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0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