Stephen Lingwood (Reignite) summed up many of my own feelings about the putative optionality of God one sees in Unitarian Universalism. (His title — “Is humanism theologically tolerant?” — is a bit misleading as it puts the onus of the problem on one half of the theist/humanist divide and misstates the conflicts in terms of […]
Several years ago, visiting a colleague-friend, I visited the Universalist-founded Tufts University, musing that this was as close as I was ever to get to a formal Universalist education. Crane, the Universalist seminary at Tufts, and St. Lawrence, the Universalist seminary in upstate New York were both closed in the late 1960s because the powers-that-were […]
Two givens.
My Day Job includes lots of interaction with software developers.
My hobby — effectively — is learning more about my three computers, each with its own variant of Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu Linux, like other free and open source software projects, have a open yet ordered and participatory [...]
I got a solicitation letter from the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) today. I’m normally sour about solicitation letters and the UUSC hasn’t been so hot in recent years, having a weird-ambiguous relationship with congregational Unitarian Universalism and a less-than-perfect efficiency rating by services like Charity Navigator. But the print piece and its new logo […]
I have made it a point to avoid Unitarian Universalist youth and young adults politics long these many years.
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Even when I was a teen, I thought youth groups were boring. If you dare criticize the acronym-heavy youth and young adults, you can expect to be condemned by them, or as often, by […]
I’m enjoying David’s Dish, the new blog by David Gillespie, a ministerial colleague serving the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spartanburg as its Lifespan Faith Development Director. Southern, Christian, Unitarian Universalist: a rare combination, but like attracts like, no? And he writes about evangelism, too. What’s not to like?
“Sandlapper?” you might ask. That’s a South Carolinian […]
As far as I can tell, 100% of Unitarian Universalists will, in time, stop being Unitarian Universalists. Death does that.
Whether we experience the Beatific Vision, are reincarnated, subsume into the Monad or simple stop being we share a common experience after death. I’ve never heard anyone suggest we will carry on as a sect (and […]
Thanks to Jaume for pointing out that Peter Morales, one of two declared candidates for the presidency of the Unitarian Universalist Association, now has a campaign site up. When Chris Walton (Philocrites) noted that Morales and Laurel Hallman were running, only she had a site.
I am not currently supporting either candidate.
I’ve got little to add to the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association decision to move their before-General-Assembly meetings to a location outside the port security area, and thus avoiding the brouhaha around an ID check for General Assembly proper. The UUMA decision seems right, the tone of the letter is appropriate and avoids it the […]
Fans of The Simpsons will get that title.
PeaceBang opined that First Parish, YouTube from yesterday’s post might be First Religious Society, Carlisle, Massachusetts, but the video meetinghouse is missing Carlisle’s distintive clock. Not that I knew that from sight; instead, I went to UUA.org to get a link to FRC Carlisle’s Web site.
But what […]
