I’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 […]
What 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 […]
Stuff I’ve been reading this week from folks over at The Daily Scribe: Camassia follows up on the Mel Gibson fiasco, exposing his lame excuse: “I don’t believe myself to be a bigot; therefore, I did not say anything bigoted.” Are Unitarians still religious humanists or have we become “vague Buddhists?” Lo-Fi Tribe asks, “Why […]