Our first and only prophet is honored:

 

 
“MANKATO, Minn. (January 4, 2018) The Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Board announced the recipients of the annual Pathfinder, Young Pathfinder and Business Pathfinder Awards.

“The Pathfinder Award was created in 1986 to recognize individuals or organizations that, in the spirit of Dr. King, are initiators in the struggle for equal treatment and human rights. The award represents the ideal that all people should be treated fairly and equally without the fear of discrimination on any basis. This year’s Pathfinder Award recipient is Diana Joseph.

“Diana Joseph is being honored for fostering deeper ties among community members in ways that nurture empathy and universal respect necessary to support the struggle for equitable treatment and for the recognition of human rights. She brings a spirit of collaboration, open-mindedness, forward-thinking and a positive attitude to any audience in which she reaches.”

Here’s a link to the entire article: Pathfinder Awards

Thank you, again, Diana, for agreeing to play along with The Church of BuVu: The Prophet

We are honored.

We need to add a Saints page to this website. I can think of many I would nominate. This Sunday morning (oops, I forgot to go to church, again) I’m thinking about Sarah Silverman. Sarah is delighted to lampoon misguided religion, (Jesus Is Magic), but she was in full-on saint mode last week, (unintentionally) answering the question, “What Would Jesus Do?”

 

 
Take a look:

An Exchange Between Sarah Silverman and a Follower Shows That Twitter Doesn’t Have to Be Terrible Always

Cheers,
BuFoon Steve Gillard

For fifteen years, since our founding in 2002, The Church of BuVu has been mostly a website, with the occasional venture by an individual BuFoon. E.g John Joseph, one of our first BuFoons, an example to us all.

 

 
But, suddenly, thanks to these two …

 

Peter Wiant and David Wayne Johnson

 
… the Church is up and RUNNING! It was Peter and David Wayne who contacted me and urged me to let them help with liftoff. They are now on the Board of BuFoons and brimming with ideas about how we can all commit some righteous BuFoonery and some righteous good things in our town and … who knows what and where else. (Peter will soon be planting a church in Libby, Montana.)

We now have six BuFoons attending regular Saturday meetings, with another two or three promising to join us. We are hoping some female BuFoons will emerge. All in good time, as the spirit moves. (At some point, if given permission, we’ll reveal the identities of this bunch of NuFoons.)

Somewhere in the BuYonder, Niels has to be smiling.

 

 
Thanks for showing up,
BuFoon Steve Gillard

 

While assembling this website makeover I came across a lonely fragment of the original ORIGINAL WEBSITE. This is a bittersweet (95% bitter) list of the running footnotes in Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon Days. It’s one of my favorite things, since my own religious heritage is remarkably similar to Garrison’s, right down to the little fundamentalist Christian sect he grew up in (the Plymouth Brethren), a twig off the same branch as the twig (River Brethren > Missionary Church) where I attended with my parents and sisters. Here’s that lonely page:

95 THESES

Cheers,
BuFoon Steve Gillard

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Church of Buvoo. I founded it with – it was mostly this friend and me, his name is Steve Gillard. I met Steve at a men’s group I started going to. . . While I was in that men’s group I started talking a lot about shame. It was something they never talked about. It was a very intellectual group. I came there and I started talking about shame and . . stirred up the group. Steve was very much like I was a few years before. Lost. What to do? Then I told him about not shaming his son and blah blah. It really changed his life. He stopped shaming his son and all kinds of different things happening. In some way he became like a student or something to me. Or he wanted to practice with me or something. He started sitting, and we started talking about this stuff. He was a lawyer. This thing about Buvoo was kind of a joke but he was very much interested in making this religion. He had himself been part of a cult, a Christian cult. He did that ten years when he was younger. we just talked about him and thought it was a fun idea or something like that. It was somewhat about theater, and art. We were being artists. There was somewhat a theatrical quality to it. So he was very much interested. He himself really wanted to be a Buvoo priest and he has writer’s block, he wants to be a writer instead of being a lawyer. He doesn’t like to be a lawyer. So he was kind of looking for something. To me it was just a joke. I liked to do it. I mean I still like Buvoo, I love it. That’s my religion.

Niels Holm
Founder
9.29.1941 – 9.27.2007

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