I really didn’t get online to make the previous much-too-long statement, but to try and throw out a few ideas as I think about my next sermon, on August 24, the big annual “What is Universalism?” event for newcomers to church.
The Christian cohort within the UUA, while producing some good minds, devoted laypersons, and […]
David Soliday asks in a comment at this entry to expound on my thoughts.
Sure.
I really believe that Unitarianism and Universalism were re-tooled in the years after the Second World War, and leading towards consolidation in 1961, to be a joint theological “other” from what had existed before. Some examples. In those early […]
I was in church today, but not preaching. That duty fell upon one of the deacons, Richard Hurst, who delivered a well-crafted sermon on anger, divine anger in particular.
But what will stick with me for the next seven days — a question asked Mystery Worshippers at Ship of Fools — is learning that the […]
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St. Lawrence, martyred this day in 258, is one of my favorites from the early church. Of course, I first learned of him from the two-degrees-removed association that is St. Lawrence University, the former Universalist college (and seminary.)
Much of what we know of him is legendary. Suffice it to say that he was in […]
Chutney makes clear what Chutney (I’d use a pronoun, but I don’t know what gender the writer is) is missing, and that doesn’t jerk my chain so much.
If I were making a thematic calendar with readings — with an overlay “sanctorial” calendar of the “saints” and major anniversaries — I’d start with the procession […]
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Chutney gives me my first chance to test out the TrackBack, which itself was activated at Chutney’s general request to godbloggers.
I guess the appeal to a Unitarian Universalist lectionary jerks my chain in three distinct ways.
To quote a zillion TV law dramas, “it assumes facts not in evidence,” namely, a theological core. The Principles and […]
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Now that the Bishop-elect Robinson matter has been resolved, is it too much to consider an almost unrecognized matter that concerns a gay man, the will of God, the Episcopal Church, and the current General Convention?
Louie Crew, a well known gay advocate in the Episcopal Church, and a lay delegate from the diocese of […]
Another adapted bit of writing to UUMA-CHAT, this time on the historic presence of Trinitarians within Universalism:
As early as 1830, you can read embarassment that there are or might be Trinitarians in the Universalist ministerial college, presumably by those who don’t want any. Thomas Whittemore, as an appendix to his Modern History of Universalism (1830) […]
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