The church I served in Georgia was robbed once. A life-long church member identified the theft on a Sunday morning: one of the church’s thirty-eight pews was missing. These pews were hand-made, painted white and probably dated to the church building’s construction in 1903. Since they were fixed (i.e. nailed down) they were easy to […]
If you read old Universalist polemic (or old Unitarian polemic for that matter) you would be convinced that, on the face of it, we were arch biblicists. But I have a hard time reading our tradition(s) that way. I think the Universalists (in particular) were fond disputants, and the Bible was the acceptable vehicle of […]
Holy Saturday is one of my favorite moments in the church calendar, ranking with the Ascension and Epiphany, as an acquired taste as Stilton or deviled kidneys.
On that day, Christ enters death and ministers to “those who dwell in darkness.” There is no overt biblical mandate for this observance, but it fits well into the […]
Ever since seeing “Sing in exultation” in the UUA Board of Trustees April meeting agenda, I’ve had “O Come, All Ye Faithful” running though my head - in Latin.
I’m glad to see this change in agenda openness, and I gather OpenUUA.org is at least partly to thank.
I’m going to review the select documents I downloaded […]
Chutney at MyIrony.com: Reclaiming a “vocabulary of reverence” outlined everything I might have said (and more) about Rebecca Parker’s letter to Bill Sinkford that you should just read his posting.
This matter has been floating among Unitarian Universalists for about a year, and this is the best a seminary president could develop. How embarrassing.
Universalistchurch.net is a hard-working domain, supporting two blogs, two church websites, and a good number of Universalist Christian resources. Even though the domain has only been at this host since March 11, I got 1280 “unique users” Greetings to readers from at least seventeen foreign countries, and thanks to the 28 who bookmarked a […]
There is a recently released public-domain text of a book released by the Gutenberg Project that you should take note of:
Our Gift by Teachers of the School Street Universalist Sunday School, Boston
This is a charming little reader, compiled in 1851. The School Street church was the one where John Murray, when preaching, was nearly killed […]
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