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Unitarian Universalism

Pluralism in practice.

“Frankly, we have to tolerate each other, and that’s not easy to do.”

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Site News

I was just kidding.

That hiatus I mentioned two weeks ago turned out not to last very long.

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Theology

Old-school universalism.

An interview with the Pentecostal bishop Carlton Pearson.

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Economics Politics

The future of post-communism?

China’s leaders have found a model for post-Marxist China: fascist Italy.

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Christianity in America Politics

Jesus plus nothing.

Jeffrey Sharlet’s compelling expose of the power-Christian fraternity in Washington, D.C.

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Theology

Eco-faith.

“Perhaps one day this time will be remembered as the moment when the … quarrel between science and religion found a vernacular — environmentalism — that permitted many new ideas about the world to enter the hearts of the democratic populace.”

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Theology

Kerygma.

Amen!

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Unitarian Universalism

Another sermon contest entry!

“I know that in my life, I am a part of a much greater web than can ever be limited to physical reality.”

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Conflict Politics

Mark Lilla watch.

More to read by the author of “The End of Politics.”

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Conflict Culture

The balcony of ideas.

Bloggers give their abstractions more than a “nouny place to live”; we sometimes transform their balcony into a stadium, and send the abstractions out fighting.