No dear, I get it. It's like the apparent but not actual contradiction in Buddhism where, to attain nirvana one must be free of desire, including the desire to attain nirvana.
What strikes me as funny is your repeatedly admonishing people to stop the striving that creates duality when you...
Liking two Sundays in a row is a good sign. And you're right, the first visit is the hardest. I almost didn't go in my first Sunday. :o In my experience, even the sermons that are focused on the spiritual will have a bit of politics, just to ground it in reality. And vice versa, hopefully...
SageTree, namaste.
Your perspective is always welcome. :)
One of the things I've learned while working in faith-based advocacy is that there are a lot of really cool, progressive, wonderful Christians of all stripes. In my work I interact regularly with Catholics, Episcopalians, and...
I wasn't asking for it to be removed from the discussion of religion. I was asking why it was a DIR. As I've pointed out, it has a forum under "Theological Concepts." It's the only one that is listed under both "Theological Concepts" and as a religion under the DIRs.
Yeah, Bill could not have done that because, as you said, UUs were divided on that.
During the last General Assembly in Phoenix, he was on a panel and when it came to the question/answer period someone went to the mic, looked to Bill and very dramatically said "You have disappointed me!"...
People have suggested the Episcopal church to me, and maybe I'm being unfair and should check them out more closely, but I have the impression that they are very Anglo. And I don't just mean racial demographics. I mean culturally. In Catholicism there is liberation theology, which as you know...
Yes, that one intentionally represents both Unitarianism and Universalism.
Yes, but I'm not talking about a cup-shaped container of burning oil. Of course every culture has used something like that, and not just for religious reasons. That would be like me claiming that candles belong to us...
Yes, and Unitarianism is basically the Protestant Reformation taken to its logical extreme. So in that sense, yes, I've already converted to one of the resulting branches of a split in the universal Church. But unfortunately when Protestants threw out papal infallibility they threw out a lot...
Wait, what? :eek: 2% voted against Bill? Who could do that? (Granted, 98% is incredible consensus among UUs.)
Exchanged a few words when he was in town promoting his book, but it'd be a lie to say that I know him. (Like I doubt he even remembers me.) I've heard him speak a few times but...
I think I forgot that you used to be in Portland. You must know Kate Lore! I love Bill; the congregation there must be in heaven. :)
What is the congregation near you now like?
Agreed. :yes:
I know that most U.S. Catholics don't pay attention to the Pope and that Catholics are by and large progressive. Believe me, I'm constantly defending Catholics when people use what comes out of the Vatican as an excuse to attack. But as I said, it doesn't make sense for me as...
No worries. I love liberation theology. I also love ritual, which is something that UUism is sorely lacking in and Catholicism has in abundance. If it weren't for the Vatican and the fact that women can't be priests and the anti-gay thing and the anti-contraception thing, and the general...