The First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City has chosen a replacement for the Rev. Tom Goldsmith. Rev. J Sylvan, who is bisexual and nonbinary, was approved overwhelmingly at a congregational meeting on April 30.
A standing room-only crowd greeted Rev. J after the April 30 vote, “cheering and high-fiving” the new minister who was “taking a victory lap,” says
The Unitarian pulpit will give Sylvan more opportunities, they say, to be in “an active conversation with people who are pulling the strings.”Sylvan grew up in Indiana in the 1980s and ‘90s,, and then moved to Boston, where they wrote poetry and managed a yoga studio. The sermon concludes: “May we all act as witness and support for our Josephs as we move forward into this often terrifying world. May each and every one of us feel seen and loved in the fullness of our beings. May we reject efforts to erase our sacred beauty to cast us down into the pit. May we continue every day to lift one another up.”
Rev. J doesn’t feel confrontational about it, they do it knowing they wouldn’t be allowed to be a priest in the Catholic Church and that it’s “harder for people who are perceived as women or feminine or female” to be taken seriously as ministers.Tim Chambless says most of the congregants at Salt Lake City's First Unitarian Church comes from other faiths.
Rev. J hopes congregants retain what they love about their former faiths and “what they want to carry with them.”
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