Liveblogging the Celebration of the UUA Presidential Candidates
8:35 p.m. MDT
Peter Morales has just released a statement on his Web site. Go here to read it.
8:30 p.m. MDT
That’s it. Final result: all uncontested candidates were elected. Peter Morales was elected the next UUA president with 59% of the vote.
8:28 p.m. MDT
The Rev. Tracy Robinson-Harris is leading us in the congregation in a responsive reading. I can feel myself calming down as more than two thousand people read together. Now John Hubert is leading us in the closing song, “For All That Is Our Life.”
Guess this means that neither Peter Morales nor Laurel Hallman will be speaking to us.
8:25 p.m. MDT
Heard around me: “I love this sermon, even though I’m not really listening.”
It’s a great sermon by Carley, but I know I’m too excited thinking of the election results to pay proper attention. But oh, he really is a good preacher. (more…)