http://jesspages.net/bestofuu/06/religion-honest-believable-challenging-religion the Good News of Unitarian Universalism Fri, 18 May 2012 06:50:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://jesspages.net/bestofuu/06/religion-honest-believable-challenging-religion#comment-21 Jess Wed, 27 Jun 2007 05:20:38 +0000 http://jesspages.net/bestofuu/06/religion-honest-believable-challenging-religion#comment-21 Thank you, Steve, for your response. It seems that the tide is starting to turn, and that many individual Unitarian Universalists are starting to go deeper into their own religious practice. My dream is that soon we will collectively speak with much more definite language as to what we ARE than what we are not. Rev. McDonald-Ladd is certainly doing that! Thank you, Steve, for your response. It seems that the tide is starting to turn, and that many individual Unitarian Universalists are starting to go deeper into their own religious practice. My dream is that soon we will collectively speak with much more definite language as to what we ARE than what we are not. Rev. McDonald-Ladd is certainly doing that!

]]> http://jesspages.net/bestofuu/06/religion-honest-believable-challenging-religion#comment-14 Steve Merino Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:51:44 +0000 http://jesspages.net/bestofuu/06/religion-honest-believable-challenging-religion#comment-14 This is a fantastic sermon. Thank you for sharing it. I study the sociology of religion at Penn State and I'm a relatively new UU. This is a fascinating sermon and gets at a lot of really interesting sociological and theological issues that face UUs. In a recent discussion I led with UUs here in State College, PA I talked about some of these issues. Interestingly, many of them insisted that they are not religious. That seemed important to them. Unitarian Universalism definitely has its work cut out for it in terms of being seen as a legitimate way to be religious if people see it like that. I think the fact that many UUs define themselves by what they are not means that irreligiousness and unconventional-ness get emphasized. I enjoyed this very much. This is a fantastic sermon. Thank you for sharing it. I study the sociology of religion at Penn State and I’m a relatively new UU. This is a fascinating sermon and gets at a lot of really interesting sociological and theological issues that face UUs. In a recent discussion I led with UUs here in State College, PA I talked about some of these issues. Interestingly, many of them insisted that they are not religious. That seemed important to them. Unitarian Universalism definitely has its work cut out for it in terms of being seen as a legitimate way to be religious if people see it like that. I think the fact that many UUs define themselves by what they are not means that irreligiousness and unconventional-ness get emphasized. I enjoyed this very much.

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