Boomers veer from career path to pursue ministry
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As someone who was blessed with an opportunity to switch careers in my 50s to devote myself to fulltime church work, I found this piece in the Wall Street Jo...
Habitual worship and sufficient cause
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There are two phrases of deliberate ambiguity in the rules for eligibility
to be on the electoral roll: that someone is a 'habitual worshipper', or
that th...
Delaware Democrats Meet, the earth did not shake.
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The Democratic Party of Delaware just held its 2013 statewide party meeting
in Dover. I was a delegate from the 20th Representative District. This
was m...
Denmark – the gay issue
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Church weddings for gays proposed From the Copenhagen Post, 23.11.11;
http://www.cphpost.dk/news/national/88-national/52556-church-weddings-for-gays-propose...
Church of Scotland votes on allowing gay clergy
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Updated Tuesday morning The official news release from the Church of
Scotland is headed Church finds common ground in sexuality debate. The
General Assembl...
PRAYERS FOR OKLAHOMA
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The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop and Primate of
The Episcopal Church, on the devastation in Oklahoma:
*The prayers of Episcopal...
*sighs*
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Sometimes I feel the urge to explain to our leaders that unlike us idiot
laity in the church who are easily impressed - or maybe just tolerant -
with buzzw...
God
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Buddhism does not subscribe to a creator God, and for that reason many
people say that Buddhism is atheistic. I believe it is more accurate to say
that Bud...
Hidden Perspectives launch.
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*'Hidden Perspectives'.... *in words from the Sheffield Dept of Biblical
studies (because I can't begin to describe it myself):
"Posted on April 2, 2013 by...
Symposium on Apocrypha
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Tony Burke is holding a symposium on the Christian Apocrypha. He writes:
"The 2013 York Christian Apocrypha Symposium, “Forbidden Texts on the
Western Fro...
A Unitarian Universalist Visits the Bahai Temple
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By Eric Stetson I was an enrolled member of the Baha’i Faith from 1998 to
2002. Although I was very serious about my faith and took two trips halfway
acros...
Spiritual Self-Defense, VII
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Birth of the Báb Cease now to visualize the sword, but continue to
visualize the circle until it expands to form a sphere of light all around
you. Clasp yo...
Support a "Jubilee for Justice"
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A new "Jubilee for Justice" campaign has been launched by over 400 faith
leaders. I was pleased to sign the letter (below) and to attend the launch
at the ...
Indian Council of Unitarian Churches
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Indian Council of Unitarian Churches
Unitarian Church, Jowai Campus
Opposite Jaintia Hills Autonomous District Council
Iawmusiang, Jowai – 793150
Meghalaya,...
New book on 18th century dissent
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[image: OUT NOW from John Issitt] A new novel,* Agents of Reason*, by John
Issitt, explores the life of Jeremiah Joyce, a dissenting minister in the
1790s...
Anniversaries - daring to change
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I am one of an army of bloggers for Heritage Open Days and a month or two
back wrote a piece about Anniversaries.
Then on Facebook someone asked whether ...
Sight impairment - emotional responses
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There are many ways to react to sight impairment depending upon when the
sight impairment happened, how it happened and the circumstances and
personality o...
Worship should be broad. And deep. But broad.
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It’s my day off after FUSE and I’m supposed to be working on the refresh
the Inquirer website. (Which I promise I will do more on this evening.)
But, I’ve ...
And so it goes with God
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“I told you two stories that account for the 227 days in between.” “Yes,
you did.” “Neither explains the sinking of the Tsimtsum.” “That’s right.”
“Neither...
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*May is Mary’s Month*
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White fair weather cumulus floats high above,
tardy ash leaves break free from their buds,
a passionate thrush greets the morning,
...
3,468
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The Annual Report is out. And for the first time it includes the total number of members of Unitarian churches in Britain.
The number is 3468.
This number ...
Pat & Sham's New Year Message
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May we take this opportunity to wish you all a happy new year.
May this year, be the year, when all your paths lead to the higher plain of
love.
Let go of ...
"The bullfrog's friends" - a new wisdom story
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*Another new wisdom story - I'm on a roll! As always, feel free to use
these stories as you see fit, although attribution would be nice...*
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* Once upon a...
Meditation on a death
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He was every man and no man.
His death was everything
His death was no thing.
His death was the ending of a life,
the negation of all his hopes.
His follower...
Fat is a social issue
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There was an excellent article in *The Guardian* yesterday on obesity by Rae
Earl.
*» Obesity epidemic: as a lifelong comfort eater, I understand the
emot...
Out With The Old, In With The New
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Happy New Year from the UUA! As the clock ticked down on truly momentous
year for Unitarian Universalism, I reflected on all the amazing work being
done in...
Settlin' Into My Life in St. Croix
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Installation Ceremony - December 9, 2012
One of the first things I did upon arriving in St. Croix was to rejoin the
Writer's Circle. I had the opportuni...
APA Publication Manual Is Now Available on Kindle
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by Jeff Hume-Pratuch You read that right: APA has just released the sixth edition of the APA Publication Manual as an e-book from the Amazon Kindle Store! (S...
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