“Humanism needs what religion gives: a passion for purpose, a concern to embody the good, and the sense of an all-embracing universal oneness that encompasses all existence.”
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Richard Higgins, who wrote about the legacy of Ralph Waldo Emerson for Unitarian Universalists in UU World earlier this year, expands on Emerson’s theology in the Harvard Divinity Bulletin. It’s a very fine essay.
Matthew Gatheringwater explores Henry Nelson Wieman’s approach to prayer.
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‘Erring’ error?
“Deconstruction, an unregenerate product of the Cold War, is addicted to futility.”
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Making theology work.
“Does anybody have any new ideas about what we human beings might make of ourselves in light of this god question?”
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Catholic democracy.
Believe it or not, there are also liberal “natural law” traditions.
The Unitarian Universalists who chat it up at Beliefnet are discussing the new Humanist Manifesto. It’s an unusually good discussion.
“The Church blesses faithfulness.”
A rip-roaring review of the way “brights” theorize about religion.
Whether Unitarian Universalists are fully conscious of it or not, they are drawn into the covenant of the church by a creative power that transcends them.