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Cheeto Jesus
03.27.08 | Permalink | 9 CommentsIt’s Cheesus! (Hat tip to my fundy plant.)
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Papaya!
03.20.08 | Permalink | 4 CommentsSo someone last night recommended I change my user name—at work, no less—to “papaya.” What am I supposed to think of that?
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Four and only four rules for doing church
03.12.08 | Permalink | 9 CommentsI’ve been reading books like Organic Community and Finding Our Way for work. At the same time, the congregation is moving into a looser knit, team-based ministry model (as opposed to a council and committee structure). I’m learning a lot. It’s a bit chaotic at times. We’re trying to focus on our assets, personal and […]
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Disciplined openness and the reality of community
From James Fowler: Conjunctive faith includes a genuine openness to the truths of traditions and communities other than one’s own. This openness is not to be equated with a relativistic agnosticism (literally, a “not knowing”), however. Rather, it is a disciplined openness to the truths of those who are “other,” based precisely on the experience […]
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A ritual to widen, deepen UU identity: Love feasts
02.27.08 | Permalink | 6 CommentsHere’s an idea. UUs should start doing regular love feasts. “Love feasts”—also called “agape feasts“—are a simple sharing of food and drink as a celebration of community.1 They are an ancient tradition from the Early Church that are sometimes connected to communion, sometimes not. My own experience of love feasts comes from my college fraternity. […]
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