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  1. applewuud

    New UUA outreach program in Time Magazine

    Yes, we did, it was announced in the service and the petition was there at coffee hour; I signed it.
  2. applewuud

    New UUA outreach program in Time Magazine

    I read in UU World that a public awareness program about Unitarian Universalism began last week with a full-page ad in Time magazine, also coupled in some way with editorial content (how does that work?) Did anyone see this campaign, and if so what did you think of it? Last Sunday October 14th...
  3. applewuud

    The Coffee House - the UU Fellowship Thread

    Sorry to hear that. It is hard to keep up with things on the net when one is active in a church as well...it's OK to check in from time to time, I hope. Are you going to reactivate your website, or are there other forums you're contributing to?
  4. applewuud

    Calling all UUs and friends of UUs for Peace

    So did I, at church yesterday, and got a confirmation email today. They're working fast.
  5. applewuud

    My Journey

    I sat on the sidelines outside of active church membership for several decades, actually. Part of my "sideline" time was spent singing in a choir in a high Episcopal church; my family background is Episcopal and there's a core of me that still loves the Anglican tradition. But theologically, I...
  6. applewuud

    What do you like about the UU church?

    I'm in it for the ideas. Fellowship, community, ceremonies...other churches have those, sometimes better. But the ideas that come from the pulpit, from the UU World magazine, from the long line of UU thinkers and dreamers, the ideas that make sense in light of the way my life has gone...
  7. applewuud

    How did you "restart" the church year?

    Each UU church congregation sets its own worship practices, and worship leaders (either professional or congregational) create their own ceremonies. So the answer to "has it always happened" is...no, and plenty of UUs may never have heard of it. I hadn't before a few years ago. What does...
  8. applewuud

    How did you "restart" the church year?

    I belong to a small UU church in New England, and its tradition is not to hold formal services in June, July, and August, giving the minister the summer "off" more or less. (It was the same when I belonged to a UU church in Los Angeles, which held low-key lay-led services during the summer.)...
  9. applewuud

    I Think I've Found My Home

    UUs in many areas of the country tend to "take the summer off". My church doesn't have any services at all from mid-June to Labor Day. Churches that continue during the summer often give the minister a two-month break. So, thanks for being so open to a service that had some glitches. Too...
  10. applewuud

    UU Prayer Traditions

    There aren't really any prayer traditions that "many" UUs practice, although many UUs pray in their own way, especially if they're following a Christian path. In fact, most of the UU churches I've belonged to prefer to have a "meditation" or moment of silence, as many members are turned off by...
  11. applewuud

    Is Hell a Basic Christian Tenet?

    It's healthy to examine how our contemporary view of "hell" may be different from that of the original readers and writers in biblical times. It's a question of emphasis within the message as well. Latter influences on Western thought and pagan misunderstandings of Jewish ideas, concepts and...
  12. applewuud

    Is Hell a Basic Christian Tenet?

    One gospel reference, and four from the book of the New Testament received as a dream about 150 years after Jesus' time. As I said on July 15th: The gospel citations a few pages ago are another great example. Verse after verse about the bread of life, and Jesus trying to wake his disciples...
  13. applewuud

    Henry VIII Founding the Anglican Church

    All of the legal points about Henry the VIII are interesting and valid, but in reality, they are a top-down view of the situation IMHO. The churches in England and Ireland were island churches, established for centuries before the Norman invasion and isolated geographically and politically from...
  14. applewuud

    Is the Church Disintegrating?

    Are you talking about the Episcopal Church of the U.S., a member of the Anglican (Church of England) communition, or all churches based on the Catholic government model of archbishop/bishop/priest? If you're talking about the former, there is a current crisis stemming from the ordination of a...
  15. applewuud

    UU'ism too Christian?

    In my opinion, some of this is coming from a time when certain individual congregations became exclusively :human: Humanist in orientation. The churchgoing habit was so expected in society and family, that remaining part of a religion, even if it didn't preach orthodox understandings of the...
  16. applewuud

    UU minister will be on the O'Reilly Factor tonight

    I was travelling in red-state Florida yesterday, and my talk-radio choices were between Dennis Prager and Rush Limbaugh:banghead3 . Prager was on a rant about how Barack Obama (a member of a UCC church that also uses and helped develop the OWL curriculum) had endorsed having "age-appropriate sex...
  17. applewuud

    Ayn Rand: Philosopher or Bimbo?

    Ayn Rand was quoted from some private papers in the forward to the 1992 edition of "Atlas Shrugged": (Ayn Rand note, May 4, 1946.) It's interesting that this note was written ten years before she published her final novel "Atlas Shrugged", and for the rest of her life she did write the...
  18. applewuud

    Ayn Rand: Philosopher or Bimbo?

    By "mystic" she's referring to anyone who bases their philosophy on a non-objective or supernatural basis. Rationality, the mind, is the only thing that keeps an individual from being oppressed and manipulated by others, in Rand's book(s). What's interesting from a 21st century perspective is...
  19. applewuud

    Ayn Rand: Philosopher or Bimbo?

    Rand is basically fighting a philosophical war, on the side of classical schools of logic and reason against more recent schools. The 3 sections of "Atlas Shrugged" are titled Non-Contradiction, Either-Or, and A is A. She clearly put a lot of effort into exploring philosophies and learning...
  20. applewuud

    Is Hell a Basic Christian Tenet?

    To return to the OP's question-- No. But it's very interesting that this minister, in taking a Universalist theology, lost his flock. Rev. Carlton Pearson's website is www.newdimensions.us and he is a very interesting thinker. I'd disagree with ABC News' idea that "at least one minister...
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