Pod and Country

In this episode we continue in the best tradition Unitarian Universalism to take it to the streets.  We speak with Bill Ong Hing, a leading voice in the struggle to ensure that immigrants are treated with dignity and fairness under the law that serves all of us regardless of our immigration status.  Bill is a law professor and Associate Dean at the University San Francisco and is the founding director of the Immigration and Deporta...

Our previous two episodes gave us a firm grounding in both theological and historical ideas animating Unitarian Universalist thinking and actions in the fight against oppression and tyranny.  With this episode 3, we move out into the world and into our communities.  We seek to listen and learn how best to support the heroes and saints among us on the front lines of resistance and explore how we can take action in service of those l...

Welcome to Pod and Country, an audio magazine for the spirit! 

In this episode we’ll  continue our conversation with the Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern and the Rev. John Buehrens. In the previous episode they looked at the theological grounding of the Unitarian response to tyranny and oppression. This time they will take a deep and honest dive into the history of the Unitarian response to tyranny and oppression and what it might inform...

In this episode. we speak with the Rev. John Buehrens. John was the 6th President of the Unitarian Universalist Association, 1993 to 2001 and is the author of several books about the history of Unitarian Universalism. His most recent book is "A Religious Center with a Civic Circumference: Unitarians in San Francisco Since 1850". He also published "Conflagration: How the Transcendentalists Sparked the American Struggle for Racial, G...