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  1. applewuud

    Unitarians in Ireland

    I had no idea there were 35 "Unitarian" churches in Ireland. Thanks for sharing this information--I'd like to visit someday. There are very few UU churches that focus on the traditional bible or the life of Jesus the way that you describe. King's Chapel in Boston is the only one I'm aware...
  2. applewuud

    UU: too Political?

    They should apologize and try to make the community more inclusive. It's too easy to be a liberal club where everyone has the same viewpoint and slide into a sloppy mutual agreement society where ideas aren't held up to scrutiny. Notably, I know a number of UUs who are against abortion for...
  3. applewuud

    Am I a UU?

    The quick answer to your question from a UU perspective is yes. Be aware, however, it may not be cool with THEM. There's a specific teaching in Baha'i writings that discourages declared believers from regular attendance at services of other religions, although it allows occasional visits. I...
  4. applewuud

    Are UU ministers problematic?

    The heart of this thread has to do with the idea that paying someone somehow distracts from the purity of their work; that "spirituality" should not be polluted by commerce. There's another way to look at the economics of this: if someone becomes really good at some craft (and I don't...
  5. applewuud

    Are UU ministers problematic?

    I strongly disagree with the proposition that full-time paid ministry is toxic to the health of a church. If paid ministry were toxic, then all fellowships would be bigger than churches with settled ministers. (Or are you talking only about your current minister? That's a different problem...
  6. applewuud

    Searching for community and the UU 'bible'...

    I do find that Singing the Living Tradition can serve as an interesting sort of "prayer book"...yes, it is a hymnal, but sometimes just leafing through sections and reading the words of the hymns can be inspiring. When you're singing them, the depth of the meaning can get lost in the effort to...
  7. applewuud

    Introducing... Me!

    I'm especially glad to hear that your son enjoyed the church in Charlotte. It's hard to keep a good religious education program going at my church...not enough kids or teachers. Welcome to UU!
  8. applewuud

    New Name for UU?

    Here's the perfect new name, especially if the car company goes out of business: VOLVO Verbose Old Liberals Vexed and Outraged:D (courtesy of the cartoonist Berkee Breathed, "Opus")
  9. applewuud

    Greetings and a Question

    Welcome, ChrisPerson. Every congregation is different, however it is fair to say that denomination-wide, the majority of UU attendees are older. The greatest "gap" (the age group with the lowest numbers) is in young adults. The UUA had a "Mind the Gap" program a few years ago to help...
  10. applewuud

    Hey, Lilithu!

    I guess she went on vacation after Salt Lake City?
  11. applewuud

    Hi everyone!

    Welcome, LadyJuly. What inspired you to go to a UU church/fellowship/society? How did you hear about it? And, how did you hear about RF?
  12. applewuud

    Hey, Lilithu!

    Umm, where has Lilithu gone? According to her user page she hasn't posted since April, and wizdum.net is getting spammed.
  13. applewuud

    A take on the tension between reason and faith in Unitarian Universalism

    The Ware lecture at General Assembly a month ago was by Dr. Melissa Harris-Lacewell, a UU political scientist (who's now in seminary). It's available on streaming video at UUA: Video It's only about 45 minutes long, and if you're short on time I'd start about 10 minutes into it. This is...
  14. applewuud

    UU Atheists

    I thought of "Tolerating Atheists" as a (lay) sermon title, with a gimmick to make a point. Are UUs a denomination that "tolerates" atheists as one of the options of religious belief? The turnabout comes with the reverse: I think the atheists who like to hang out with a UU group need to...
  15. applewuud

    New Name for UU?

    See also this old thread about Syncreticism... So, what is Syncretic Religion? (ritual, tradition, contradiction, beliefs)
  16. applewuud

    New Name for UU?

    Absolutely the name of our movement needs to be changed...what our congregations are today has very little to do with the now-obscure 19th-century theological issues reflected in our name. "Unitarian" is a label for Christians who felt the Trinity was not a biblically-based or provable...
  17. applewuud

    [UU only!] Age and Humanism/Theism

    I was at a UU wedding in June. The first two minutes of the ceremony were, essentially, a reading about God, from David Korten's The Great Turning. But the words "God" and "Jesus" weren't in the reading. It referred in a humanist-friendly way to a cosmic force behind creation "which has been...
  18. applewuud

    Meet Our New President!

    :sorry1:I stand corrected by this bit of data about our outgoing president, Rev. Sinkford: Outgoing UUA President William G. Sinkford won by the largest margin of any UUA president in a contested race when he was first elected in 2001. Sinkford won that election with 67.7 percent (2,218 to...
  19. applewuud

    Meet Our New President!

    She has a statement at her site: Elect Laurel Hallman for UUA President
  20. applewuud

    Meet Our New President!

    [For those looking at the Forums from outside, the President of the Unitarian Universalist Association is elected at General Assembly, which just happened at Salt Lake City. Delegates from UU churches vote at the GA, after a nominating process the previous years...it's a 4-year post.] I...
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