The Magic Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is pleased to welcome Dr. Colin Johnson, assistant professor of political science at Idaho State University. Colin will speak about self-expression and politics, drawing on his personal experience of exploring his identity as a gay man while living in Russia and other places in the former USSR. His title, “Our Past Is on the Horizon,” comes from Osip Mandelstam’s 1921 essay, “The Word and Culture,” which questions the contradictions inherent to culture and to politics as we collectively work to redefine our common futures. Reflecting on his own experience of these contradictions, Colin will offer his perspective on perseverance in the midst of political exhaustion and tumult.”

Don Morishita is Worship Associate