March 2, 1992To satisfy my curiosity, during February, I kept a log of the number and kind of unsolicited mail I received, some of which can deservedly called “junk.” Not counting fliers from local...
"THE old religions put God above the world as Maker and Ruler. He issued his commands from that supreme throne to the universe, established laws, and gave orders. He made the winds his angels, and ...
Kensington Unitarians have produced a series of podcasts of sermons and addresses by Rev Sarah Tinker, Rev Linda Hart, and others. They are varied and interesting, with subjects ranging from "Symp...
January 6, 1992When I returned from Auburndale, Christmas night, Barbara, whose home is only one removed from mine, brought over a plate of cookies and fruit cake. Yesterday morning, Barbara was fo...
Added The Philadelphia Universalist Magazine and Christian Messenger, The Universalist, and The Universalist Union to the list of Universalist periodicals here. These are not showing up in HOLLIS.
Part of the object of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches is "upholding the liberal Christian tradition". I once commented that we should also support all liberal religion...
December 1992Once again I am bold enough to send you greetings of the Season with a 55 page “Card.” “I call ’em as I see ’em,” as a baseball umpire once said.May your YULE and New Year 1993 be bles...
Sunday I had the pleasure of guest speaking and leading a program at the Unitarian Church of Sharon, MA with our district executive, William Zelazny. Our focus was on the possibilities and potenti...
A guest post by Rev Andrew Pakula.The congregation that I lead - the Newington Green and Islington Unitarians - has grown extremely quickly over the past several years. What we have done is not mag...
"TO believe in an Infinite Perfection, and to worship it, is the first and greatest of human duties. It is the root and source of all. The sense of a Supreme Good and Beauty, the feeling of an Inef...
This is the fifth and final blog in a series chronicling the adventures of the Standing on the Side of Love Campaign in San Diego between Thursday, February 25th and Sunday, February 28th. This blo...
This is the fourth in a blog series, chronicling the adventures of the Standing on the Side of Love Campaign in San Diego between Thursday, February 25th and Sunday, February 28th. This blog is wri...
A friend of mine told me recently that someone in her congregation said she wasn’t sure Unitarian Universalism was really for kids. This is a rather difficult idea for me to swallow since I am acti...
I just watched two excellent videos by Stephen Lingwood on "What is Unitarianism?" — they are very inspiring, and explain Unitarian views and values very succinctly.
Manchester Faith Groups Welcome Lords AmendmentManchester Liberal Jewish Community has joined with local Unitarians in celebrating the amendment to the Equality Bill which will lift the current ban...
There seems to be new interest in the union between science and religion. James Freeman Clarke spoke of that possibility in his "Message of Faith, Hope and Love" for March 8th..."SCIENCE remains c...
November 19, 1991 Should we be content that David Duke lost to Edwards by a wide margin, 61% to 39%? Or is it a continuing threat to fair play and constitutional government that nearly 700,000 vote...
October 4, 1991In the Middle Ages a monk framed the Law of the Monastic Cycle: “Discipline begats abundance, and abundance, unless we take the utmost care, destroys discipline; and discipline in it...
James Freeman Clarke's "Message of Faith, Hope, and Love" for March 7:"I AM persuaded that this increasing sense of the ineffable greatness of God is that which makes prayer now more difficult. Bu...
James Freeman Clarke on the interconnected web: "THERE is no one wholly without God in the world. There is no one who does not have an altar, at least to the. "unknown God," in his ...
