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Marriage Site News

Mrs Philocrites’ corner.

People often ask how Mr and Mrs Philocrites manage their interfaith relationship.

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Culture Marriage

Marriage prospects.

Katherine Boo’s “The Marriage Cure” may be the most devastating feature story I’ve read.

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Site News

No more bowling alone.

Introducing “Fish Bowl,” a blog-incubator for Unitarian Universalist Christians.

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Conflict Culture History

Condemn by repeating the past.

“The reliance on historic analogies is an evasion of the particular, indeed novel, political complexities that face us now, complexities that have emerged since (but are not solely the result of) September 11.”

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Culture Marriage

The arrangers.

Inspired by reality TV, a mother holds auditions for her marriageable daughter.

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Conflict Culture

Forgive and forget?

I recommend Avishai Margalit’s book “The Ethics of Memory.”

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Christianity in America Reading Scripture Unitarian Universalism

Can a fundamentalist be a unitarian?

They’re not classical Unitarians, but they are unitarians.

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Episcopal Church Reading Scripture Sexuality

Can a bishop eat bacon?

“The opponents of Bishop Robinson’s confirmation who quoted Bible verses during the discussion in Minneapolis must have known they had a weak case.”

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Conflict Culture

Morality vs. ethics.

“Morality is long on geography and short on memory. Ethics is typically short on geography and long on memory.”

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Theological Education

Extra credit.

“Terms you didn’t learn in seminary.”