THE MOST DANGEROUS CHURCH IN AMERICA
How would you like to give the religious right a good scare?
It has been known to happen. When we held our General Assembly in Salt Lake City in 1999, the Rev. Stefan Jonasson, now the UUA's coordinator of services to large congregations, met with the head of missionary work for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Knowing that several thousand of us were coming to town, this Mormon official had done his homework, and he told Stefan something interesting: Proportionate to our size, he said, Unitarian Universalists do a better job of attracting visitors than do the Mormons. But, he added, we do a terrible job keeping them. "If your churches were half as successful at integrating and retaining members as we Mormons are," he concluded, "then Unitarian Universalism would be the most dangerous church in America."
Bill Sinkford
May-June Issue UU World
That is the objective of the Edellimae Foundation. We will assertively take our Gospel, our Good News out into the world and grow this movement that can play such a positive, healing role in our nation and the world's future.
