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Wow Peacebang even "memory holed" my post about Wo...

2006-01-11T19:03:00.000-05:00

Wow Peacebang even "memory holed" my post about World Day of Conscience. Now that was very naughty of her indeed. . . where is Peacebang's conscience?

In UU churches, so often at a "default left" setti...

2005-05-14T08:30:00.000-04:00

In UU churches, so often at a "default left" setting, the problem isn't that we engage with the various moral indignities of this or that policy or this or that legislator. No, that's not it. Our problem is that we mistake the votes taken by a group of casually-chosen delegates to our General Assembly for the will of the whole "denomination" of us, and henceforth preach and march and organize

As I have said a bazillion times before, UUism wil...

2005-05-13T09:04:00.000-04:00
As I have said a bazillion times before, UUism will die (or at least stagnate) if it doesn’t decide, however loosely, what it is and what it has to offer in the marketplace of religion.

I recently attended a Religious Science church in which the minister mentioned several times that the congregation, not unlike most UU congregations, was full of folks who don’t want to be told what

We agree on a lot of the basic principles here.(I ...

2005-05-13T07:12:00.000-04:00
We agree on a lot of the basic principles here.

(I did not hissyfit per se about the language of reverence bit, but I didn't really like Sinkford's tone, either. I often don't.) In my own personal case, Fausto has been a lot more convincing on the religious language point than Sinkford ever was, but Fausto's tone is consistently "I'm a smart guy talking to other smart people." This is