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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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uuemergence
Time for some new old-time religion
01.02.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI was cleaning out my mailbox from the holiday break earlier today, and someone had left a NYTimes article about the growth of the minyanim movement. The minyanim are small groups (20 to 200) of young Jewish urbanites who gather each week for self-led worship without the assistance or approval of any established synagogue. (I […]
