Following up on my earlier posting: “God is not to be propitiated, but served and loved and enjoyed. Religion is not a scheme of rescue, but daily manna from heaven.” (Isaac M. Atwood) “Spiritual Side of Universalism” in Centennial of the Universalist Profession of Faith (1903), p. 154 Share this article Hide Sites $$(‘div.d27′).each( function(e) [...]
On the old “boy in the bands” I used to have in the margin something called, “The sources of this faith” which gave some context for the “1903 Universalist Creed” I profess. That’s what’s in the right hand margin of the current blog. The two sources are: 1. The Winchester Profession, adopted in 1803 Article [...]
Following up on “comment” requests: Fear not, the Sunday sermon will be online, but not here. It will be at the church website — www.Universalist.org — which as I already mentioned now uses Movable Type. Look for it Sunday night or before. I appreciate your interest. Share this article Hide Sites $$(‘div.d25′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) [...]
Today is an in-the-office day, and I’m trying to use this blog to make church administration easier by networking with others, thus proving that blogs are more than exercises in self-indulgence. I’m thinking about the letter I’ll be sending out to church members and constituents who are parents of small children about dedications and baptism. [...]
I rarely talk up commercial products, but a piece of open source software doesn’t count, does it? I’m talking about the new release of OpenOffice.org — both the address of the webpage and the name of the software — which I use at home and which we use at the church to produce the newsletter [...]
At the church website, there’s a bit of javascript that gives “a meditation from the Universalist tradition”. In fact, these are twenty-six quotations, and I would like to get fifty in all. So, an appeal: if you have a quotation from a bona fide Universalist Christian source, please add it to the comments. (You can [...]
Had to take a few days away from the blog to get two other Movable Type projects underway. The first is UUChristian.net which will host several blogs by UU Christians, and when I point UniversalistChurch.net over there, this blog, too. Fish Bowl is the first of the blogs, and something of a training ground. [2009-08-13. [...]
Sean from Across, Beyond, Through asked the following in the comments of the entry, “Is being many harder than being one?”: Just checking here–your position is that Unitarianism and Universalism were intentionally changed in order to be more palatable? To each other? To society at large? I think that there was an embarrasment about the [...]
Good word today: the Unitarian Christian Association, the British counterpart to the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship, has gone online, and in quite an attractive way. See http://www.unitarianchristian.org.uk/. [2009. New site.] I particularly like the entry about the Annual Meeting of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches [GAUFCC link], and my one regret [...]
Sad news about the six members of a religious order, the Melanesian Brotherhood, taken hostage in the Solomon Islands: a warlord confirms that all are dead. Please pray for the deceased. A news story from Australia and this official obituary fill-in the story. I first learned of the Melanesian Brotherhood when I found their liturgy, [...]
