Shooting victim reflects on church rampage

An injured victim of Sunday's church shooting rampage said the tragedy has shaken his support for the death penalty, even after an old friend was killed and three family members were wounded.

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The talking stick. My experience at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Hillsborough, NC

Awhile back I had written an article about religion, I write a lot of these types of articles, whereby I had stated that I do in fact believe in God, had in fact never been able to call myself an Atheist, although I had called myself an Agnostic over the years, and that I do grea …

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Whatever the reasons turn out to be, there are at least two lessons I hope y'all take away from today's events.

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She had doubted that she'd be welcome at any church. She'd had transgender friends who were booted out of other churches. At JUC Ganow felt support.

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Resolving to be imperfect... what a liberating thought. We don't need resolutions to make us perfect; we can find beauty and hope and comfort and peace as ordinary human beings. And we can feel grateful for what is already right and good. May we rest in our imperfections.

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The study indicates that when exposed to new information, we filter it through our emotional brain systems, ending in our pleasure center. The area of our brain responsible for reasoning is virtually dormant.

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Now 42 and a recently-ordained Unitarian Universalist minister at Wildflower Church in South Austin, Galaher has come to see her original tattoo — the spur — as a reminder that she's not always the rider but the horse who sometimes needs a kick to keep moving.

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The things that are holy and sacred in this life are neither stored away on mountaintops nor locked away in arcane secrets of the saints. I doubt that any church has a monopoly on them either.

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As you know, I never have been much of a believer. The longer I live in Bodacia, the less I think I believe. I been gripin' about hypocrites and back-biters for forty years. I been damned and cursed more times than Satan hisself.

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Do you ever wonder what happened to the good old days, when the connection to Jesus at Christmas was strong, where the horse drew the sleigh, and the tree was trimmed with cranberries and popcorn and simple homemade ornaments? Where you gave an orange as a present, or a hair ribb …

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Tse took a break from her international human rights legal work to attend Harvard Divinity School. She had been deferring admission to HDS for a decade, choosing to attend law school first and work in the trenches as a public defender.

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Advertisers demanded censorship rights — changing the race or religion of Serling's characters or watering down plots they deemed controversial.

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The idea of Jesus as a sexual being, sheer blasphemy to most Christians, has a certain fascination for some modern writers. In The Man Who Died, D. H.

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Thomas Jefferson is best remembered for seven words, the unalienable rights he enumerated as "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" in the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence.

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In many hunting and gathering societies the custom is to thank the animal itself for giving its life to become food for the family or the tribe. In this way, one could argue, the middle man is eliminated.

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For those who live lives of abundance, it is easier to defer to voices of doom, leaving the poor to fend for themselves.

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"It's a way to open the door a bit wider, to people who might not show up for church at ten a.m. Sunday but would at six p.m." He says the Sundown attendance is much more ethnically diverse than Sunday morning's.

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To write haiku I've had to tame old habits. My first effort, before I'd read much about the practice of haiku, came as I waited for a ride home from the commuter train station one autumn night. It went like this:

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Is God Keeping You From Going to Church?

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Voices of a Liberal Faith - Unitarian Universalists

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Since the introduction of the first Buddhist texts to America in the mid-nineteenth century, Buddhism has been as extremely influential force among Unitarians and, over the last thirty years, Unitarian Universalists.

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The Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPS) is an organization dedicated to networking Pagan-identified Unitarian Universalists (UUs), educating people about Paganism, promoting interfaith dialogue, developing Pagan liturgies and theologies, and supporting Pagan-identif …

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The online bookstore of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.

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Spirit of Life, come unto me. Sing in my heart all the stirrings of compassion. Blow in the wind, rise in the sea; Move in the hand, giving life the shape of justice. Roots hold me close; wings set me free; Spirit of Life, come to me, come to me.

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So let's all agree: down with book banning. No more challenges to Beloved, Harry Potter, and the rest. But then come the harder questions: how and what do we teach, in a responsible, loving, and honest manner?

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Through all the din of fundamentalism, let's not forget our Liberal Christian UU friends.

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