Sad news from Doug Drown emailed to me earlier today and reprinted with permission: Thought you would like to know that it has been reported on the Maine Conference UCC website that the Gardiner United Church of Christ in Gardiner, Maine (former First Universalist Church) has closed. The property and assets have been turned over [...]
Rockwell Universalist Church, Winder, Georgia, always stirs up happy memories. It still exists, and is an on and off member of the UUA. (Currently off.) It used to have a website, but the domain lapsed — so no more. But it does have a historical marker out front. And I posted an interior photo in [...]
I’m not entirely sure how I feel about the Christian Universalist Association — why form central, outward-facing organizations when the internal community is so small? — but my instinct is to be encouraging and wait. And when I heard that the CUA is holding a conference this fall in Ohio, I started thinking about attending. [...]
If you’re in southeastern Kentucky and looking for an independent universalist-theology house church, are you in luck . . . . Last nice, I came across the Grace Evangel Fellowship of Wilmore, Kentucky. Pleasant, but makes me more conscious of the charges of antinomianism — is that such a bad thing? — Universalists often got [...]
I have one, valedictory issue of the Liberal Christian to publish. At this point, I’m looking towards a spring date. That 2009 experiment was helpful, for me, for a couple of reasons and one was an appreciation of print publications for certain settings. Also my current Esperanto studies, since that community has been heavily dependent [...]
Not much there, but I said I’d put out an issue today and so I did. I’ll be cultivating interested writers for the next number. Share this article Hide Sites $$(‘div.d3033′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
I got an email from a universal salvation Facebook group that included some links, including the Indian Hills Church, North Little Rock, Arkansas. It was founded — and was until 2004 affiliated — Southern Baptist, but its universalism, or more accurately restorationism — is pretty obvious in its still-Baptist-formatted statement of faith and who they [...]