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Damned laity.

“This is the sad and convoluted result when you let the laity run a ‘church’ with their flawed human wisdom.”

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Art Theology Unitarian Universalism

More than words.

Last year, the Tulsa church commissioned a painting that would illustrate in concrete ways the key themes, values, and sources of their tradition.

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Theology

Old-school universalism.

An interview with the Pentecostal bishop Carlton Pearson.

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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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Theology

The elusive quest.

“Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within the passing flux of immediate things.”

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Theology

More chutney, please!

“Our god is not a braggart, is not needy, does not require worship, does not claim credit.”

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Theology

Modern theology 101.

My own theological thinking is probably a some kind of process-postliberal hybrid.

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Theology Unitarian Universalism

We must not postulate simplicity.

What Unitarian Universalism needs isn’t traditional religious language tossed into the Principles like croutons in a salad.

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Theology Unitarian Universalism

A vocabulary of reverence.

The UUA sets up a discussion forum about Saturday’s New York Times article.