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Be Spiritual – Episode 20
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It’s a privilege to bring you this reflective and enlightening conversation with Rev. Dr. Marilyn Sewell, Minister Emerita of the First Unitarian Church of Portland, Oregon.
Last fall I heard and was fascinated by Marilyn’s dialog with Christopher Hitchens, the well-known atheist, that was sponsored, posted, and published by the Portland Monthly magazine. What first caught [...]
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Tagged Baptist, Catholicism, Christian, Christopher Hitchens, Francis David, God, mystic, redemption, social justice, Transylvania, Unitarian, Unitarian Universalist, Universalist, UU
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Unitarian Universalists at General Assembly
SOF Observed, the blog of Krista Tippett’s Speaking of Faith public radio program, has now posted the complete video recorded as this year’s General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association kicked off in Minneapolis. Watch a dozen or so UUs from around the country respond to various questions about Unitarian Universalism.
Unitarian Universalists in Focus [...]
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Our Next Episode
While on business in Portland, Oregon, I had the privilege of visiting with the Rev. Dr. Marilyn Sewell, Minister Emerita of the First Unitarian Church of Portland.
With my recorder running, Marilyn graciously recounted her spiritual journey, first to Unitarian Universalism and then to the UU ministry. She shared her religious beliefs, which she considers Christian, [...]
Be Spiritual – Episode 19
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This episode, Kim Steele joins me for a conversation about her spiritual journey, one that reflects several themes worth contemplating and incorporating into our own spiritual practices:
Welcoming the stranger
Working for justice, equity, and compassion (one of our UU principles) for those who seem different — whether by race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, ability, or …
Identifying and rooting [...]
How Did You Become A UU?
In the second related video published on the Speaking of Faith blog, UUs attending the recent General Assembly in Minneapolis spoke of how they became UUs.
How did you become a Unitarian Universalist? from Speaking of Faith on Vimeo.
What’s a UU? In Our Own Words
Krista Tippett’s Speaking of Faith public radio program, which is produced by Minnesota Public Radio, took advantage of the recent General Assembly in Minneapolis to ask us who we are. You can hear our own words in this video posted on the SOF Observed blog.
What Is a Unitarian Universalist? from Speaking of Faith on Vimeo.
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Tagged acceptance, Hindu, Krista Tippett, love, pluralism, reason, Speaking of Faith, Unitarian Universalist
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Peter Morales Interview
The Rev. Peter Morales, president of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), was interviewed Thursday on Minnesota Public Radio’s Midmorning call-in program.
Notwithstanding that host Marianne Combs is a UU, she asked some challenging questions about what UUs believe and why we aren’t a larger religious community. Hear the program and Peter Morales’ responses to these questions [...]
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Be Spiritual – Episode 18
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It’s a privilege to have the Rev. Bruce Taylor as my guest. Bruce is a newly minted UU minister, ordained last November (2009). And just a few weeks ago, he was called by the congregation of First Parish Church in Billerica, Massachusetts, to be their minister.
Bruce’s journey is a story of personal transformation. The devastating [...]
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New Web Site
It’s been a busy month — no, let’s say year. Despite my propensity to say “yes” and adopt multiple projects in kid in the candy store fashion, I’ve kept up pretty well until this past month. Lately, though, my travel and myriad commitments seemed to conspire to bury me.
On the Be Spiritual front, in addition [...]
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Be Spiritual – Episode 14
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Episode 14 features Burns Fisher and his path from Congregationalist to atheist, Religious Humanist, and Unitarian Universalist.
Our conversation touches on a couple of interesting topics, worthy of further contemplation and discussion: religious faith compared with faith in science, and whether being liberal spiritually requires one to be liberal politically.
Listen and then share your thoughts by [...]
