It wasn’t planned this way, but I assembled and hung this banner, depicting the names of famous Unitarian Universalists, during May with its Soul Matters emphasis on the subject of “Tradition.”

Honoring past UUs is one area in which this faith tends to honor and preserve tradition. (As I write this, the latest issue of UU World commemorates the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s birth.)

Could this growing list of names, several recognized as having lived during my own lifetime, be part of the “Hold on and make room!” that the Soul Matters journal invited us to heed this month?

The sweatshirt from which this applique panel came was donated to Religious Explorations. (I made this banner with the donor’s permission to make use of the sweatshirt this way).

I originally hung the banner on the front bulletin board where it can be seen by people entering the church, but in a short while, I plan to hang the banner near the R.E. classrooms.

Cynthia M. Parkhill
Administrative coordinator
Religious Explorations

(Individuals identified by name in banner: Paul Revere, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Thomas Jefferson, Beatrix Potter, Buckminster Fuller, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Amy Lowell, Charles Dickens, Daniel Webster, John Quincy Adams, Horace Mann, Samuel Morse, Bela Bartok, Albert Schweitzer, Dorothea Dix, Whitney Young, Herman Melville, P.T. Barnum, Horace Greeley, Alexander Graham Bell, Justice Oliver Welndell Holmes, Henry W. Longfellow, Julia Ward Howe, Florence Nightingale, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adlai Stevenson II, Gilbert Stuart, Hosea Ballou, Linus Pauling, Nathaniel Hawthorne, W.E. Channing, Eliza Fallen, Millard Fillmore, Horatio Alger, Jr., Malvina Reynolds, Josiah Wedgwood, Roger Baldwin, Margaret Fuller, Joseph Priestly, Maria Mitchell, Benjamin Rush, Sophia Fahs, Abigail Adams, Nathaniel B. Currier, Fannie Farmer, Olympia Brown, Mary A. Livermore, William H. Taft, Paul D. White, Charles Darwin, Rod Serling, John Adams, Percival Brundage, Charles E. Scripps, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Celia Burr Burleigh, Leverett Saltonstall, Ted Sorenson)