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The weather has been very wet, and I fear we’re facing a Spring like last year. God, I hope not. But if we do, I have just the thing, a collect (prayer) from the old Universalist Gospel Liturgy (1861 edition). It is with the occasional collects, page 149, if you have a copy.
Raining. […]
It seems recently I’ve run across a number of resources that make me say, “Jeez, if I had that ten years ago, I would have saced so much time.” In this case, the accomplishment would be figuring out how Universalist institutions worked together, and what the ethos is. The work: A Brief History of the […]
I’m taking as much time as I can afford and going back to the roots. In the process, I found a good article about Elhanan Winchester, one of the more underappreciated ancestors of faith. What I like particularly is that the writer integrates the former’s American and London ministries.
Do note that a typo or […]
Back in October, I wrote about Presbyterian Church (USA) lay pastor training programs, and have since thought out loud how this might be a good model for meeting the needs of small Unitarian Universalist congregations without pastoral leadership (and are unlikely to get it the old-fashioned way.)
The suite of pages has since been greatly […]
To millions of Christians, “the Easter Homily” can only mean one thing: the Easter Homily of St. John Chrysostom, “the golden mouthed.” Let it be a lesson to all wiling preachers that this gem, from about the year 400, could be read aloud in a few scant minutes. But Easter wouldn’t be the same without […]
Philocrites touches on a matter bothers me very much: the false appropriation of Universalism as a moniker for “Unitarianism lite.” Not that the Universalists didn’t originally collude in this arrangement; even in the nineteenth century liberal forces among the Universalists were cozying up along side the Unitarians. But they knew who they were.
Today, “neo-Universalists” pretend […]
Yes, I am an omnivore. No, unless my partner and I get a last-minute invitation for Easter dinner, I shall not be eating lamb.
Lamb of God, yes. Roasted baa-lamb, no.
And I love roasted baa-lamb. With red potatoes. And mint sauce.
Call me a tender-heart: Augustine called the universalists in his day such. I don’t mind, but on […]
Tom Schade, at Prophet Motive, asks his readers serious questions about the pointless zero-sum thinking that plagues current Unitarian Universalist internecine relationships.
Do read his article, and Philocrites’ follow-up.
Sure I agree with him, and must of my public ministry before a couple of years ago played into it. But then it dawned on me: who am […]
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