UUMA Votes Overwhelmingly to Approve New Sexual Ethics Code
The Guidelines Committee of the UU Minister’s Association (UUMA) this year recommended a code of conduct that reads: “I will not engage in sexual contact, sexualized behavior, or a sexual relationship
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When Worlds Collide
I had an interesting conversation with a friend the other day about a controversy in her church. A member raised the question to the congregation about what their policy should be about bringing guns
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You can't be too careful
Perhaps Peter Crabb (below) is feeling fiddle-dee-dee prescient this afternoon, after the Federal Reserve chairman's latest appearance and promise of very, very careful responses to vaguely forecasted
"Chaliceout - Free to choose, may we choose compassion, generosity, equality, & kindness."
“Chaliceout - Free to choose, may we choose compassion, generosity, equality, & kindness.” - Naomi King - Twitter: @revnaomi
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Highlights from the CUC Board
The CUC Board met on May 16, 2013 in Calgary, on the day preceding the Annual General Meeting. All the Board members were present, as well as John Marsh, Observer from the UU Ministers of Canada, Mica
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When the kids are little, you're all "small house, big picture." You imagine you're changing the world because the family is a mini nation and it matters if you feed your kids organic homemade granol
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"What makes good society? I answer, in one word, real fellowship."
“What makes good society? I answer, in one word, real fellowship.” - William Hazlitt, Table Talk (1823) p.332 (Unitarian, painter, essayist, critic)
Pride on the Prairie and in the City
What if the LGBT Pride Parades held in the cities combined with the small-town pride parades of the prairie? Melanie Hoffert imagines a utopian future.
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Worship Sunday June 23,2013
This week we welcome Patricia Hatch to our pulpit. Patricia was our ministerial intern from Sept 2010 to June 2012. “Delights and Difficult Things” “Life is full of sweet gifts and unavoidable
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Tamara Payne-Alex for UUA Moderator
Dearest Fellow Unitarian Universalists, Two weeks ago, I mailed in my off-site delegate ballot for the election of a new Moderator for the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. My vote
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Fed FUD
My once-a-week dose of Peter Crabb, off-the-wall finance and economics professor at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa produced the usual amount of head-scratching and spluttering. What is he on a
Bob Senghas: Thinking of a Mentor
The Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association gathers just ahead of the annual UU General Assembly, this year in Lousville. This morning UUMA worship featured, as is the tradition, two speakers, on
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getting back to it...
I got in a full day in the shop yesterday, but am still struggling a bit to get into the full swing of things. Anyone who has been self-employed in such a small business as my own can tell of the many
"Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity."
“Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity.” - Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam From the Extremists
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Director Karagan Griffith Talks About “With Love From Salem”
On June 12th, I reported on an upcoming documentary focusing on the Temple of Nine Wells in Salem, Massachusetts, and the lives of Richard and Gypsy Ravish, entitled “With Love From Salem.” Directed b
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A liberal still standing up for Jesus - a reply to a comment on my last blogpost
An early image of Jesus as the Good Shepherd A very important point was posted on my last blogpost No image, no passion - why this liberal continues to stand up for Jesus by Tim Bartik. Thanks, Tim,
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"Shout, friends of Liberty, aloud! Shout with a mighty tone! Sing, angels in the upper world, A..."
“Shout, friends of Liberty, aloud! Shout with a mighty tone! Sing, angels in the upper world, A song of Freedom’s own! Now stripes and bondage are exchanged, For peace and quiet homes, Where no slave-
