The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (UU) will meet at the Tryon Youth Center on Rt. 176N. at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28. Our speaker will be Reverend Judith Long. Her topic will be “Who among us sees the elephant?”
The East Indian tale of the blind men and the elephant is familiar to us.
As we read in the translated poem, “and so these men of Indostan disputed loud and long, each in his own opinion exceeding stiff and strong, though each was partly in the right, and all were in the wrong!”
It seems that we can easily apply the same logic to today’s highly partisan discussions about almost every topic.
Perhaps as UUs we have something to offer the discussion — a way of living with and amidst uncertainty.
Rev. Judith Long is the executive director of The Free Clinics of Henderson County, where she has served for more than seven years, working in a community ministry capacity.
Long is a nonprofit professional who more than 20 years experience in various nonprofit organizations throughout the country, most recently working with adult, teen and child survivors of domestic, familial or sexual violence in Brooklyn, NY.