Every social phenomenon that’s important to me is flawed, contingent, and disappointing. But they are also renewable, beautiful, and empowering.
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Author: Chris Walton
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Patriot’s day
We rebelled against a king who claimed the authority to transport us “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences.”
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The time to speak up is now
One person is responsible for all of this turmoil.
The social ecosystems of our churches are at risk at the local community level, at the congregational level, and at the denominational level.
Stepping down as editor of UU World magazine marks the end of 25 years of professional service to Unitarian Universalist communities.
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The long afterlife of a blog
Philocrites finds its way into bibliographies and footnotes.
‘Dean’s rhetoric — like his campaign structure — is deeply grounded in the social practices of a branch of radical Protestantism whose tenets still wield power in the structures of Vermont’s government.’
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Traffic report.
We zoomed through November with 6402 visits and 2912 unique visitors. (In October, those numbers — which I’ve now figured out how to extract from my host — were 5426 visits and 2753 unique visitors.) Thank you, everybody — and I especially appreciate your comments. People are still inexplicably drawn to my essays about Max […]
‘What I worship cleaves the rock and makes the rain and melts the snow. It is a god of transformation…’
I don’t think we’re going to get very far by taking gender out of marriage entirely, or by discounting the differences between one form of partnership and another.