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ableism, disability, failure, ga, racism, UU
Help me to be a noble failure—while I run this race
06.21.07 | Permalink | 13 CommentsThis is my first GA. And so my first banner parade and opening shindig. And that’s all the academic throat clearing you get on this one. (This one’s long, so I broke into five bite-sized pieces.) 1. Ending institutional evil as we know it The focus of the evening was three moments in UU social […]
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ga, UU
So what do you wear to GA?
06.14.07 | Permalink | 17 CommentsNext week will be my first time to GA. (Gah! I’m a GA virgin!) So what do people wear? I wanna be able to sit at the cool kids’ table at lunch.
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brown-bag-controversy, oppression, UU
My two cents on the Brown Bag Controversy
06.06.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on My two cents on the Brown Bag ControversyOkay, I’m going to weigh in on the big Brown Bag Controversy. I was on vacation when it blew up, and it was tapering off when I got back. Chalicechick asked some good questions today. I just dropped off a comment there, but I want to offer a meta comment here. It feels to me […]
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irreligion, religion, unchurched, UU, uuism
Why the gods are not winning #3: Questions for UUs
06.05.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments[Parts one and two.] Say what you will about the irreligious, but they’re not us UUs. We’ve got atheists and agnostics to be sure, they aren’t irreligious. Otherwise they wouldn’t come to worship or sign the membership book. Or perhaps we’re looking at the religious irreligious? I don’t know. I hate to contribute to our […]
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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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paul, sacred-stories, UU
Sacred story, or sacred soap opera?
Peacebang tells us that a sacred story shouldn’t bore anyone to death. Like Paul’s did.
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