Walking into the Unitarian church in Pasadena, I was deeply uncomfortable, even though I knew it was a welcoming crowd. Even though I immediately noticed rainbow paper hearts strung on the pulpit. Even though my gaydar immediately found the queers in the room. Even though it was clear the pa...
Huxley was a skeptic, but he rejected the label infidel. He stressed that agnosticism was a method for the study of religion and not a creed. He wished to apply the scientific method to the study of the veracity of theNew Testamentclaims about Jesus; he thought a Christian should look at...
and humanitarian, Albert Schweitzer, who was said to have lifted the glass cover that shielded a candle from the wind, so as to let a fly escape and live. It was from Schweitzer that we received the phrase so common to Unitarian Universalists today, “my religion is reverence for life.”...
theological explanations for theexistence of religion in generaland forChristianity in particular. Of particular significance is a universal human tendency toassign divinity to ordinary human beingsand a remarkable humanproclivity to believe in even the most unlikely religions, including unlikely Christian ...
the church they started from. That night, a white group beat and murdered civil rights activist James Reeb, a Unitarian Universalist minister from Boston, who had come to Selma to march in the second march, which had been joined by many other clergy and sympathizers from across the country....
Some said he could not be divine as he was not always present in the universe others saw the concept of the Trinity as central to Christian faith. Some Christian groups, such as Unitarians even today reject the doctrine and emphasise the oneness of God....
Hopkins’ students, Charles & Myrtle Fillmore used “New Thought” to form the Unity Church (now Unitarian Universalist). Evans finally got everything into print incorporating Swedenborg’s influence. Swedenborg surmised that the Bible describes a human’s transformation from a materialistic to a ...
1. The Periqlyte is not the "Consoler" nor the "Intercessor." We have fully shown the material impossibility of discovering the least signification of "consolation" or of "intercession". Christ does not use Paraqalon. Besides, even from a religious and moral point of view the idea of co...
The Sunday Services committee at our Unitarian Universalist church asked me to speak (along with two others) today on why this place is home for me. Here’s what I had to say: I didn’t grow up with a church community. I was an only child and home for me was watching Cheers while...
the religion. Their goals, thinking and speech will all be strongly influenced by Watchtower. On being disfellowshipped, they generally have no one to turn to; combined with a feeling of alienation from the world around them. When disfellowshipped at the age of 18, a friend of mine ...