KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2001
 
 Keith Kron, Director of the UU Office of Bisexual, Gay,
 Lesbian and Transgender Concerns: Gatekeepers, Vultures, and
 Other Food for Our Souls
 
 In many places the connection between working for justice
 and nourishing the soul seems often separated by a closed
 gate. Yet cultivating diversity in our congregations
 requires us to be the gatekeepers to allow this connection
 to become real and vital. How can we do that? What must we
 know, what must we lose, and how can we cultivate this
 connection into reality? What kind of gatekeepers are we or
 could we become?
 
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 Rev. Keith Kron has held the position of Director of the
 Office for Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Concerns
 for the Unitarian Universalist Association. since January of
 1996. He is a graduate of Starr King School for the Ministry
 and was ordained into Unitarian Universalist ministry in
 February of 1999. He has written a premarital counseling
 guide for same gender couples and has revised the Welcoming
 Congregation manual- as well as writing a curriculum that
 goes beyond the Welcoming Congregation. Currently, he is
 working on a book for the UUA's Skinner Press on civil
 unions.