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- Nightmare Ticket
- Can we stop now with the whole "Dream Ticket" nonsense? When I first heard about it many, many months ago, when Clinton was conceived as a veritable shoo-in as the Democratic nominee, it struck me ...
Posted on Parsonage Life (Site / Info) on Friday May 9, 2008 - Celebrating congregations, the value of staying put, and more
- Celebrating congregations The Rev. Ron Robinson at "Planting God Communities" calls for innovative models for organizing congregations : Church is too important as a counter cultural way of living ...
Posted on the interdependent web (Site / Info) on Friday May 9, 2008 - Who's Your Mama?
- In honor of Mother's Day, Beacon Broadside solicited different perspectives on the holiday. Today's post from Harlyn Aizley . Aizley edited Confessions of the Other Mother: Nonbiological Lesbian Mo...
Posted on Beacon Broadside (Site / Info) on Friday May 9, 2008 - PSA
- I've gotten several hits recently from people searching for " What to do if your wife uses VAWA ." So as a public service announcement, I'd like to recommend that your first course of action should...
Posted on debitage (Site / Info) on Friday May 9, 2008 - Mission
- I'm a UU and a Virginian which can be a tough cohabitation at times. The Commonwealth has been known to trample over basic tenets of Unitarian Universalism. Making marriage a civil right for all? N...
Posted on Auspicious Jots (Site / Info) on Friday May 9, 2008 - CH is for Church
- Mama and Little Man are making an ABC photo scrapbook... Little Man: I want this picture. Mama: Why, honey? F for fountain? Little Man: NO. It's the church. You know CH, CH, church. Mama: That's ju...
Posted on Auspicious Jots (Site / Info) on Friday May 9, 2008 - May 9, 2008
- Posted on A Southern "Universalist Church" History (Site / Info) on Friday May 9, 2008
- Religious Identity and Unitarian Universalism
- I spoke in a Sunday service a couple weeks ago and I just thought I'd let people read what I said if they're interested. It was a lay-led service and several other "young adults" spoke, too. It was...
Posted on reason and reverence (Site / Info) on Friday May 9, 2008 - Finding a Clean Slate
- In Great Britain, a database listing employees with identifying information including photos, and their grounds for dismissal will be available for future employers to check on potential hires. The...
Posted on Surviving the Workday (Site / Info) on Friday May 9, 2008 - Universalist Quote of the Day #80
- "We reject the doctrine of the Trinity, and affirm that God is one only; and that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, inferior and subordinate to him, but sanctified, and gifted, and exalted, by him, a...
Posted on Transient and Permanent (Site / Info) on Friday May 9, 2008 - (Pagan) News of Note
- My semi-regular round-up of articles, essays, and opinions of note for discerning Pagans and Heathens. DVD Talk reviews the documentary series "Women and Spirituality" , which was recently released...
Posted on The Wild Hunt (Site / Info) on Friday May 9, 2008 - Better Never Than Late?
- One hesitates to even whisper the name Jeremiah Wright now that it has become a faint echo from, lo, a whole week ago. I'm sure most folk in the Obama camp hope they never hear it again. But the st...
Posted on Isten Aldjon, Y'all (Site / Info) on Friday May 9, 2008 - Globe's Papelbon signs with Yankees
- The Boston Globe has lost its second Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter this week, according to the Phoenix's Adam Reilly. And while the departure of Sacha Pfeiffer for WBUR Radio (90.9 FM) means only...
Posted on Media Nation (Site / Info) on Friday May 9, 2008 - How many congregations are emerging?
- I'm going to take a couple of days to consider the issue of congregational growth in the Unitarian Universalist Association. So I asked myself: How many emerging congregations - organizations in fo...
Posted on Boy in the Bands (Site / Info) on Friday May 9, 2008 - Retreat...or Restoration?
- Retreat is such a fine word. The last time I was scheduled to attend an overnight retreat was the day my father died. Needless to say, I never went. And still, three years later, though I have atte...
Posted on UU Intersections (Site / Info) on Friday May 9, 2008 - Rains are Coming
- As I write this I understand a major rain storm is rolling toward us. When I count my blessings, living here in New England provides many of them. I love the culture. I love the history. I love the...
Posted on Monkey Mind (Site / Info) on Friday May 9, 2008 - Beginning the Long Road Home
- I sit in the very same room, 219, in the Victoria Hotel that I began my trip. But this time I am blissfully alone. I can enjoy the quiet and maybe for one night sleep without earplugs. It would be ...
Posted on Rev. Sam Trumbore (Site / Info) on Friday May 9, 2008 - Ignoring the Indefensible - Torture
- As a boomer, I grew up knowing Americans were supposed to be the good guys. Oh, yeah, and that we cherished our liberties, models for the world. So, how is it that got to the point that we actively...
Posted on Marry in Massachusetts (Site / Info) on Friday May 9, 2008 - Is it lawful to do good?
- All three synoptic gospels in the Christian scriptures (Matthew, Mark, Luke) include the story of Jesus healing a man with a "withered hand." Matthew 12:9-14 Mark 3:1-6 Luke 6:6-11 In each case, Je...
Posted on Keep the Faith (Site / Info) on Friday May 9, 2008 - together in our common faith
- " When the day of Penthecost came, they were together in one place." Acts 21,1 It seesm that one of the most diffucult thigs would be how to find a place were people can be together. Do you think s...
Posted on Good will - RevC's Blog (Site / Info) on Friday May 9, 2008
