(Vote here.)
Quick! Get your nomination in! Who do you think is the most influential living Unitarian? I’ll post a poll later on for voting.
Current nominations: Matt Groening, Keith Olbermann, Chris Walton, ChaliceChick, Jason Pitzl-Waters, Martha Stewart, Scotty McClennan, Bill Sinkford, Robert Fulgham, Bill Schultz, and Tim Berners-Lee. (From comments in this post.)
It’s time to out influential Unitarians! You do not need to be a Unitarian to nominate.
And let’s try to up the representation from the not-a-bearded-white-guy demographic.
Right this moment, I’d have to say Olbermann.
Without Tim Berners-Lee you wouldn’t be saying much right now. . .
Most influential for whom? For UUs or for the rest of the world? For the theology or for the culture?
Thinking more about the larger world than just inside the fold.
Oh, and let’s try and get all the nominations in by noon tomorrow (Nov 30). I’ll put the poll up later that day or the next day.
Okay … my nominations:
Ysaye Barnwell – composer and member of gospel group, Sweet Honey in the Rock.
Robert Fulghum – writer, former UU minister
Kurt Vonnegut – I know so many non UUs who adore this man ….
Forrest Church and Robert Fulghum are probably the best-known proponents of explicitly UU ideas.
But Tim Berners-Lee and Matt Groenig (who seems to be UU only in the sense that Thoreau was: raised in the church before moving on) are much more influential.
Now that I know who Tim Berners-Lee is, I would have to second (or third, or fourth) that nomination!!!
My nomination seems to keep falling off the comments. Earlier I nominated Bill Schultz, president of AMnesty International.