Liberal Religious Youth Resources
Seems I should make a page of resources for those folks who come across these pages on a search for LRY memorabilia...
LRY Reunion: an e-mail group & web site
bandia.net/LRY
LRY Memorial Room by former Tacos and People Soup editors Kathryn Price and Paul Pigman
Ed Inman has archived People Soup.
LRY page by Colin Pringle. A personal account of LRY in the 60's, and links to lots of counter-culture stuff (Haight-Ashbury, Kesey, Pranksters, Rainbow Gatherings, etc).
YRUU on the web. Here you'll find some essential LRY archive materials and links, including:
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YRUU 5 Year Review -- Introduction. A brief account/opinion of the SCOYP report and other issues that led to the dissolution of LRY. |
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Common Ground 1 (1981): The Report of the 1981 UUA Youth Assembly Planning Committee to The Unitarian Universalist Association Board of Trustees October, 1981. The official version of events. |
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Interview with Wayne Arnason (1989) on the end of LRY and the beginnings of YRUU. |
YRUU, UUYAN and the Future of Unitarian Universalism by Jim Sechrest. Touches on some of the same issues from our Orcas discussion, like youth involvement (or not) in the church.
Your Children are not Your Own by Shava Nerad Averett. “... encapsulates exactly why I hated going to church after I left LRY, and why Paganism is bringing me back.” -- Carl Hommel.
Carl's Memories -- Carl Hommel was active in the New England area from 1976 to 1979. This site contains a number of essays on LRY, college, raising children, and Paganism.
Unitarian Universalist Roots - Ancient & Modern -- A long essay by Jeremy Taylor, a UU Minister and early LRYer. Recounts some obscure and fascinating UU history and personal experiences.
Why You Should Not Be A Unitarian Universalist By Rev. Dr. Tony Larsen. Reprinted from People Soup, Dec. 1981.
ACLU Conference on Youth & Civil Liberties. Mainly personal stories, one mentions the influence of LRY anti-war activists in the 60's.
An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back On Life by Joyce Maynard. A personal account of youth in the 60's, and a brief membership in LRY. Originally published April 23, 1972 New York Times Magazine.
CUUPS -- Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans. Another shore upon which a number of LRYers have washed up.
WHUUPS -- “Web Home of UU Pagans. A site devoted to explaining Unitarian Universalism to Pagans, and vice versa. Home of the Canonical List of UU Humor.” UU stuff, Pagan stuff, some former LRYers here and there. This is an exhaustive collection of essays and links. You'll find a bit of almost anything here.
The Emerson LRY Page. Despite the UUA decision to dissolve continental LRY, some churches independently continued to have LRY locals. Here's a page by a present-day LRY local in Houston.
Pacific Southwest LRY reunion on August 28-30, 2000 at camp de Bennenville Pines in So Cal. check the site at www.geocities.com/lryreunion.
Most of this link page text is shamelessly stolen from the fine work of former Tacos and People Soup editors Kathryn
Price and Paul Pigman whose work is:
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Leela Sinha, formerly an active YRUUer, now becoming an active youth advisor and supporter, did her senior paper for Carleton College on the
history of the Unitarian Universalist Youth Program, and focused on the breakdown of LRY (Liberal Religious Youth). She did a lot of original research and
interviews. What's more, Leela produced this paper in the form of a web site, complete with extensive backgrounds and glossaries. I strongly urge everyone who
wants to understand the present of this program to pay close attention to its past!
Unitarian Universalist Youth History