September 2006
The Archives
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al-gore, falwell, gospel-of-thomas, hillary-clinton, jonah, leadership, lewis-black, opossum, pneumatology, pope, prayer, yom-kippur
Scribe Jamboree: 09/29/2006
Linky link goodness from the folks at The Daily Scribe. (The Scribe just changed its engine for a new model, so if you haven’t checked the Scribe out lately, check it out for all the new groovy features rolling out over the next while.) Al Gore as Jonah, Planet Earth as God—a cartoon! (JVoices) Lewis […]
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dog, jesus
Jesus and the dog butt
09.28.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Jesus and the dog buttI suppose folks will be lining up around the block now that somebody has found an image of Jesus on their dog’s butt. The Lord works in mysterious ways. (Hat tip to the General.)
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conflict, congregations, dysfunction, goats, sheep
Sheep and goats
A quick excerpt from church consultant Mike Durall’s book The Almost Church: Redefining Unitarian Universalism for a New Era. (You can read a quick summary of the book here.) While our principles call for the respect and dignity of every person, not all members serve the congregation well. Unfortunately, some people come to church with […]
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humanism, open-faith, religious-humanism, religious-naturalism, spiritual-humanism, unitarian-universalist, UU
Unitarian Universalism: A definition?
09.24.06 | Permalink | 11 CommentsI’m teaching high school religious education this year, and we’re starting the year off with the UUA’s “Articulating Your Faith” curriculum. Today we were talking about what we say when folks ask what UUism is. The phrase that popped into the mind is “an open faith for religious humanists.” Does that work? Does it leave […]
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christian-nationalism, christian-right, propaganda
Christian Nationalist propaganda posters
09.24.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Christian Nationalist propaganda postersFree with your love gift to the 700 Club.
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academics, convergent-spirituality, emergent, gospels, pope, religious-humanism, truthiness, UU, uu-christian, why-men-hate-church
Scribe Jamboree: 09/22/2006
09.22.06 | Permalink | 6 CommentsWhat I’ve been reading this week at The Daily Scribe: The ever-fecund Pop Occulture coins a new term: “convergent spirituality.” Threedays tells us why men hate going to church.” The Journey reminds us that the Gospels aren’t bedtime stories. Arbitrary marks gives us the word on truthiness and the Pope, and also warns the Pope’s […]
