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Category Archives: Religious pluralism

Easier to find images for reuse

The BoingBoing-noted launch of a Google image search feature makes finding images sorted by Create Commons license much easier. Take, for example this search for images labled unitarian or universalist that are available for reuse and modification, but not in commercial applications. Useful, too: found this nineteenth-century picture of old First Universalist, Minneapolis, which looks [...]

Posted 10 July 2009 † Scott Wells § Art and culture § Design and typography § Universalist history ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

On Sinkford and Ahmadinejad

When I saw the news at UUA.org that Unitarian Universalist Association president Bill Sinkford had met, in a delegation, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, I groaned. I did not, however, write about it because Jonathan and I were up to our eyeballs in boxes, and I try not to get worked up about lame-duck presidents. But [...]

Posted 02 October 2008 † Scott Wells § Art and culture § Political life § Unitarian Universalist Association ‡ Comments (4) °

The bull and the jackass

Because of its coverage on BBC World, I’ve followed the unhappy story of Shambo the temple bull at Skanda Vale in Wales. The bull had — as it has since been demonstrated — bovine tuberculosis and was taken from the temple under orders of the public authorities (but amid protest) and was slaughtered yesterday.  This [...]

Posted 27 July 2007 † Scott Wells § Art and culture ‡ Comments (4) °