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christian, sacred-story, story, UU
Questions for non-Christian UUs
08.11.07 | Permalink | 10 CommentsJust to go full circle, here are some questions for non-Christian UUs. Do you find the Christian story worse than other sacred stories? Is it no worse than others but just not the one that works for you? Do you buy that the Christian story can change and transform people? If so, why doesn’t it […]
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christian, sacred-story, story, UU
Questions for UU Christians
08.11.07 | Permalink | 4 CommentsPeacebang wrote a groovy post about what UU Chrsitians do. Here are some questions about why they do what they do, though the questions could be for any group really with a little adaptation. Do you find the Christian story better than other sacred stories? Is it the first among equals? Is it no better […]
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compassion, empathy, framing, listening, mindfulness, reconciliation, stories, story, ubunu
Three ways to do the spirituality of reconciliation (post 7 in ubuntu series)
11.08.06 | Permalink | 2 CommentsRemembering that reconciliation is a spirituality, not a strategery, we can see three ways to put reconciliation into action. (Courtesy of Schreiter.) 1. Relearn to listen patiently, to ourselves and to others. Between work and email and errands, we forgot how to listen to stories of pain. Maybe we never learned. Maybe no one taught […]
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narrative, plot, reformation, renewal, revolution, story, UU
A sacred story in need of a plot
09.20.06 | Permalink | 5 CommentsThere’s been an ongoing discussion in UU blogs about the need for theological renewal and, more specifically, a religious narrative that works for UUs. (To follow the post trail, start here, then go to Philocrites, then to Lo-Fi Tribe, then to Arbitrary Marks.) I want to mark off two kinds of narratives: mere-stories and plot-stories. […]
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gnosis, gnosticism, philip-k-dick, powers, powers-that-be, story, tao, trickster, walter-wink
A new gnosticism?
06.09.06 | Permalink | 9 CommentsAs promised, a response to Tim Boucher’s “Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory” (in three parts): Boucher is looking for a new gnosticism. I’ve always found gnosticism bewildering, if metaphysically ambitious. It has its own peculiar beauty, but as I studied it in a mystical theology class in college, I couldn’t help but think that gnosis and […]
