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  1. applewuud

    Shootings at the UU Church in Knoxville

    A day later, Dr. Barnhart was interviewed on the Today show (see full text and video at Shooting survivor ‘thought I was dying’ - TODAY: People - MSNBC.com ) Reflections on hate Investigators described Adkisson as a former member of an Army airborne unit who trained as a mechanical...
  2. applewuud

    Shootings at the UU Church in Knoxville

    Dr. Joe Barnhart, a professor of religion and philosophy who was at the service at TVUUC and was wounded by the gunman, was interviewed by a local station in the hospital. Told by the media the shooter was targeting liberals, he said: "The liberals I know are like the conservatives I know...
  3. applewuud

    Shootings at the UU Church in Knoxville

    The Knoxville UU church reclaimed its sanctuary Sunday; the local TV station compiled some moving excerpts from the service and interviews after it The video should be here: WBIR.com | Knoxville, TN | Video A few posts have been forwarded to me which bear quoting here. From Of Madmen and...
  4. applewuud

    Secular Humanism and Unitarian Universalism

    You're correct about the semantics. "Religious humanist" is a more accurate category for the typical active UU humanist, and that's the term I read the most often in these circles. As a practical matter, in most of today's Unitarian-Universalist fellowships or churches (as opposed to those...
  5. applewuud

    Organized Religion

    Emilano, sorry, but you're off-topic:eek:. The OP wasn't addressed to non-UUs. Wrong part of the forum for that kind of debate. BTW, churches that belong to the UUA are posting a small growth rate, but they are growing, and more than most mainline churches. If growth is evidence of God's...
  6. applewuud

    Victoria Safford at GA: "Who tells you who you are?"

    Is anyone interested in a summer sermon discussion group in this forum? My church doesn't hold services in the summer, so I'm interested in seeing what might be posted online that we can discuss here in RF. Here's a link to a service featuring Rev. Victoria Safford, on streaming video...
  7. applewuud

    The sick concept of Eternal hell suffering.

    The "existence" in an objective sense isn't a matter of interpretation, but in a mythic/poetic/archetypal/psychological sense--which is the framework that best seems to fit this particular issue--interpretation is all there is. The anti-hell postings in this thread postulate that the concept of...
  8. applewuud

    The sick concept of Eternal hell suffering.

    I was drawn to Universalist* theology decades ago by the same idea Mickiel has: that there's an incompatibility between the idea of a just and/or loving God who creates all things and the concept of everlasting punishment. There are a lot of pathologies in that concept: if God puts people in...
  9. applewuud

    Two Things to Make MidnightBlue Smile

    Yes, I was at GA but didn't see your post before I was there...sorry I haven't checked into RF for a long time. :sorry1: Now that my church is in "recess" for the summer I'll probably check in more often.
  10. applewuud

    A major new UU music piece is online now

    At the UUA General Assembly last week in Ft. Lauderdale, at the opening ceremony on Thursday, they had a definitive performance of the "Sources Cantata" with words by Kendyl Gibbons (the UU minister in Minneapolis, a humanist) and music by Jason Shelton (the music director of the UU church in...
  11. applewuud

    Who's a UU?

    Just a point of what "congregational polity" means: each individual UU church, society, fellowship or whatever sets its own criteria for membership. There need not be any ritual or requirement at all. In my church, it's as simple as signing a book. Agreeing to contribute something, whether...
  12. applewuud

    Two Things to Make MidnightBlue Smile

    At the UU General Assembly, in the exhibit hall there was a booth from a new co-ed Scouting group that's being formed that would be compatible with UU values, for those looking for an alternative to the Boy Scouts. I don't have the link at the moment, though.
  13. applewuud

    Personal Creeds

    Your personal creed shows a lot of thought and is expressed beautifully in the context of the Christian story and heritage. A UU from a non-Christian background probably couldn't identify with the exact poetry/symbology of your personal creed, but it certainly reflects an openness to other...
  14. applewuud

    Anyone going to General Assembly?

    I went down there to sing in the choirs, so I didn't get to any plenary sessions at all. But I did go to the Ware lecture with Van Jones, which was very interesting and deserves its own thread. However, the larger point of this thread should be how un-representative GA attendees are. It's...
  15. applewuud

    Unitarian Deism

    Another book that I'd highly recommend along this line is an old one from 1957 by Julian Huxley, a British scientist: Religion Without Revelation. I'm stunned that I've been around UUs for decades and never even heard of this until I picked up an old paperback at a church rummage sale...
  16. applewuud

    Meadville Forum on the election and UUism

    I was browsing at the website of the UU seminary in Chicago (meadville.org) and found they are having a "Winter Institute" on February 8-10. The topic is interesting, but I don't know the people presenting the institute (Mr. Keithan is the Director of the UUA's lobbying office in Washington)...
  17. applewuud

    Death?

    Unitarian Universalists, whether they be theist, humanist, Christian, Jewish or other theological belief, together celebrate the forces which create and sustain life, and tend to focus on this life, even if they happen to believe in an afterlife. For most of us, the question "why is there...
  18. applewuud

    Unitarian Deism

    Wow! A lot to chew on, there... It's interesting that a lot of the early Unitarians were chemists and physicists (e.g., Joseph Priestly), and that the logic of the Enlightenment led to Deistic beliefs among many of the founders of the United States (Jefferson, Franklin). It's great to...
  19. applewuud

    New UUA outreach program in Time Magazine

    That's too bad, Powder. So many UU congregations are not used to having guests, that they treat a Sunday service as if it were a congregational meeting. Big problem, as you say. On the old UUA blog, there was a long rant by someone who'd just been approached by an insensitive pledge drive person...
  20. applewuud

    New UUA outreach program in Time Magazine

    Like Lilithu, I'm not interested in "converting" people, but I want the wider culture to be aware of the ideals and ideas of liberal religion, just as it's aware of the ideals and ideas of the conservatives. They'll make their own choice, but they have to know there's a choice. There is a...
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