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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 [...]
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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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 [...]
Why Join a UU Church?
After opting out of church and religion, Jane Roper and her husband have opted back in, joining a UU congregation. She tells why in this essay, recently published in Salon.
Jane’s experience mirrors the stories of many who come to our UU churches. If you’ve been listening to this podcast, you’ve heard this theme in a [...]
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What’s a Unitarian Universalist?
One of the challenges we UUs face is answering the question “What’s a Unitarian Universalist?“
Not that we don’t have answers, rather our answers tend to be rather lengthy, laborious, and conditional. Hence, the need for a cogent answer, both for us and the poor questioner — who may have neither time for nor interest in [...]
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Adamant Atheist Meets Agnostic Christian
A recent tweet by Peter Bowden, creator of UU Planet TV, led me to a fascinating conversation between Rev. Dr. Marilyn Sewell, retired minister of the Unitarian Church of Portland (Oregon), and Christopher Hitchens, atheist and author of God Is Not Great.
Published by Portland Monthly Magazine, you can listen to the not-so-great recording or read [...]
Noteworthy
I came across a couple of items this week that you may find interesting.
Garrison Keillor wrote a column in Salon, Don’t Mess with Christmas, in which his subtitle reads
It’s a Christian holiday, dammit, and it’s plain wrong to rewrite “Silent Night.” Unitarians, I’m talking to you!
Keillor’s thoughts have prompted a bit of a tempest, judging [...]
Robert Wright Article
Ellen McCormick, who was gracious and brave enough to be my first interview on the podcast, called my attention to this piece in The New York Times by Robert Wright, author of The Evolution of God.
He, too, was quite gracious by agreeing to be interviewed for Episode 6. You may recall, during our conversation Wright [...]
Churches and Social Justice
Nevada Newsline, a program produced by Reno public radio station KUNR, recently addressed the church’s role in promoting social justice. Neal Anderson, the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Northern Nevada, and John Auer, minister of the First United Methodist Church of Reno, shared their views on the topic with host Dan Erwin.
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