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carnival, unitarian, work
December Unitarian Blog Carnival: Work
12.19.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on December Unitarian Blog Carnival: WorkThe topic this month for the Unitarian Blog Carnival is work. And apparently we’re all working pretty hard, because we only got two submissions. Not even Kinsi and I, who work together and thought up the topic, got our acts together on this one. Fausto confesses that a new painting in his office of a […]
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famous-unitarians, keith_olbermann, unitarian
And the most influential living Unitarian is…
12.14.06 | Permalink | 7 CommentsThe results are in. The most influential living Unitarian is Keith Olbermann. After an early lead, Olbermann sank to third place while Matt Groening and Tim Berners-Lee vied for first. Meanwhile, a write-in campaign put Pete Seeger in the race as a late entry. But then the Olbermanniacs got involved, and it was over for […]
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american-history, influential-americans, unitarian, UU
How influential we are! (…er…were)
11.25.06 | Permalink | 10 CommentsThe December issue of Atlantic Monthly is running a list of the 100 most influential Americans, compiled from responses from several super-historians. As you might expect, we Unitarians fared quite well, getting ten or twelve out of 100, depending on how strict your criteria are. 3. Thomas Jefferson (in belief, if not membership) 25. John […]
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providence, ubuntu, unitarian, universalist, UU
We already have what we need (Part three in ubuntu series)
10.15.06 | Permalink | 8 CommentsEarlier I said ubuntu is all we need. Now I want to push further. If Unitarian Universalism has a Good News, it is this: we already have what we need to practice ubuntu, and to practice it more fully. There is nothing missing that prevents us from realizing a fuller expression of ubuntu. If there […]
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confession, craig-groeschel, liberal-religion, liberating-religion, lifechurch, mysecret, mysecret.tv, sin, unitarian, UU, vocabulary-of-reverence
MySecret.tv: In search of brokenness
08.16.06 | Permalink | 5 CommentsMy old college buddy at Rae’s Space alerted me to MySecret.tv, an evangelical rip off of Post Secret that’s hosted by LifeChurch.tv, a multi-site megachurch run by Craig Groeschel. (I went to Craig’s singles service in college, when we were both still Methodists.) MySecret lets you anonymously post a confession of a sin. Categories include […]
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evening-prayer, liturgy, morning-prayer, prayer, unitarian, UU
Can UUs do (morning) prayer?
02.21.06 | Permalink | 26 CommentsWe discussed prayer at our 20/30something discussion group a couple nights back. (For those of you who aren’t UU, prayer isn’t much of a UU thing these days, although there are certainly exceptions.) During the conversation I found myself saying that I missed the richness of good old fashioned liturgical prayer, like in the Book […]
