Dear Congress Participants, Dear Friends,
You will find recordings of Congress sessions here: https://iarf.net/groups/congress-2023/recordings/. The list is not complete yet as editing the footage turned out to be a little more time consuming than I had anticipated due to some issues with sound. I had to make and add subtitles to several videos to make them easier to understand and enjoy. Most regretabbly, one recording turned out to be unusable, unfortunately – Rev. Young’s talk was recorded using the wired microphone, which turned out to be broken. We replaced it with a wireless one immediately, but the damage had been done. My most sincere apologies to Rev. Young and all of you. The video quality isn’t as high as I hoped for (aparently Zoom’s cloud recording feature is limited in this regard), but I hope it won’t be too distracting from the content. I’ve certainly lerarned a lot and will do better next time! The list will be completed today or tomorrow.
All the best,
Luke

Two days ago in the evening I was talking to Ruzbeh, with whom we went to past Congresses as well. We were sitting for a drink in the Carolina Square of the city center. He is a great fellow to be around, trust me on that 🙂
At one point he said something very interesting to me:
At the last two Congresses, we rented convention/conference centers in Birmingham and Washington, DC, which are places literally designed for conferences and congresses like ours. Great, professional venues, yet, he has a different feeling now, in the Unitarian High School, somehow that IARF is home, it is in a place than he can feel that he and the organization belongs to. Inside a building that really cultivates on an everyday basis the shared values of IARF. I think he expressed something that I felt somewhere in my soul, but didn’t vocalize: You came home!

I truly hope your homestay was pleasant and you enjoyed your time here! We are sorry if some things did not match your expectations, we usually settle these issues with a couples of glasses of pálinka over here. Eastern Europe, after all 🙂
But truly, I’m so thankful for every encounter that we had during the last couple of days. Meaningful conversations, humorous people, cultural and spiritual experiences, wanderings in the city, food and drinks, panels and answered questions, music and prayer, all of this stirred up into a beautiful Congress!

Thank you, thank you!
Looking forward to meeting with you in any part of the world!
Blessings and love,
Zsolt