Excuse, please, a light moment. I recommended an Orthodox Church of America church today to somebody I know well, and that led to a few minutes looking at Eastern Orthodox websites. Found one about the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople’s recent visit to North America. What I didn’t expect was a little page giving the proper [...]
To these five principles I desire to direct your attention as, specifically, the reasons for my being what I am. 1. Universalism believes in the Universal Fatherhood of God. And so does the Christian Church very generally. There are some who leave off the “universal,” and occasionally one who questions the “fatherhood.” But in general [...]
Last night, in my own parallel General Assembly experience, I finally got down to reading the program. I’ll miss tonight’s Service of the Living Tradition, and I would want to attend the usual Chrisian stuff, and some of the Commission on Appraisal activity seems worthwhile. But I’ve “done” the SLT many times, know all the [...]
Well, Geneal Assembly begins tonight, and I’m here in Washington. I’ll miss the proceedings, but I could also use the rest. Yje irony is that the organization where I have my temp placement is having its convention in California this weekend, and so the office will be closed, and I’ll be out of work. Turns [...]
This vision of the final consummation of good, which came to me as the revelation of the Holy Scriptures, confirmed by the moral and intellectual judgment, was perhaps the primal factor in determining my religious affections. But, after all, this statement of what is really a great doctrine may be unsatisfactory, and so while it [...]
These great scriptural principles which were taught me in that good old Methodist Sunday school set my soul on fire with a divine optimism which thrilled me with the joy and gladness and glory of it. But I presently discovered that my enthusiasm. For the complete success of the Gospel did not meet with response [...]
It has been so long since I added anything four-square Universalist that some of you might be wondering what I’m up to. I hope this helps. I found this pamphlet in my papers, and though it isn’t dated it has to be from before 1935, or else the profession within would be the Washington Avowal. [...]
My temp job allows me about thirty-five minutes of reading time on the bus, each way. Since thn, I’ve finished Bob Sitze’s Not Trying Too Hard: New Basics for Sustainable Congregations from the Alban Institute, on which I’ll comment later. Now, I’m skimming though colleauge Dan Hotchkiss’s Ministry and Money, also Alban, and reading more [...]
Enjoyed a lovely evening of vespers and potluck dinner with Axios, the GLBT Eastern Christian affinity group. Chanting, incense, and this lovely salad made of watermelon, Bermuda onion, and arugula. I highly recommend it. I also recommend the ethos of the group. Though we were eight, all but two were first-timers: recruited a tthe Pride [...]
Perhaps you want to start a daily prayer, or at least regular prayer discipline and you don’t know where to start. (This also applys to small groups, say UUCF chapters.) The available Anglican and Catholic books are written with a certain amount of in-knowledge that is difficult to acquire. And perhaps, if you are a [...]
