UU's and the Bible
To clarify the previous post (found here: Most of the conversation about the Bble is in the comments.I say that "post-denominationalism" applies to the social trend in which Orthodox Christians don't...
View ArticleTheological Grounding
Another question from the Staff. (second to the last!) How can we ever satisfactorily respond to a call for more theological groundingwith all of our diversity?I have spent the past semester on...
View ArticleGA2012
OK, so I'm not, fundamentally, a pep rally type person. Not for sports...I'd rather play. Not at GA, either; I'd rather be talking to people, helping out, learning new things. And only in a few...
View ArticleBreaking Up With God
· The Author of the book by this title, Sarah Sentilles, talks about a story which was left out of her book: · The founder of Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit that uses the resources...
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Radical Growth Idea for UU's
Begin Rant:Let's quit privileging the practice of closing churches for the Summer. This idea, which comes to us straight out of the pre-air conditioned centuries past, has it that it is necessary, ok,...
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Facebook: A Time Sink?
A ministerial friend was complaining lately about the time it can take to wade through the dross of Facebook posts to get to the good stuff. Most of this post is a re-post of my tips on this matter...
View ArticleContemporary Worship
Some of us at First U Albuquerque have set ourselves to really figuring out what contemporary worship is all about. Since the churches which feature this new religious art form tend to be big,...
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Counting the Audience
*This is one of several responses to UUA president Peter Morales' white paper on congregations, which can be found here:There's a theory of congregations that says that each congregation has three...
View ArticleCongregations and Beyond
Peter Morales' paper, Congregations and Beyond (found here) raises some interesting issues for UU's and other religious people, especially those in small denominations and those which practice...
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3 of 4 UU's Don't Belong to Congregations. Why?
Of course, it is technically true that all UU's belong to UU congregations, because technically, there is no way to be a UU unless you belong to a congregation. But don't tell the people that. (It...
View ArticleWhat's a Unitarian Universalists
1. Technically, a Unitarian Universalist is a person who is a formal member of a UU congregation.2. Popularly, a Unitarian Universalist is anybody who calls themselves a UU, whether or not they belong...
View ArticlePsalms and the Small World
Years and years ago, when iMinister was just learning how to blog. she was experimenting with blogs and, needing a body already written short works to populate her blog with, used some adaptations of...
View ArticlePraying with Your Iphone
(an article written for Journey, The Journal of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Scranton, PA)When I was a very little girl, I gathered…I’m sure nobody taught me this…that in...
View ArticlePsalms P.S.
I'm twittering the Psalms, these days, and invite those interested to follow me on Twitter @revCRobinson.
View ArticleOn Welcome
There's an interesting article in the UU World this month, about beliefs that UU's don't tend to have. You can find it here. But the editor was apparently confused by the first paragraph and added a...
View ArticleMy Hoodie
Who knew that hoodies had such massive symbolic weight? This item of clothing has been in the news since the killing of Trayvon Martin and the comment by Geraldo that the hoodie was just as much to...
View ArticleWho cares if Zimmerman is a Racist?
It seems very odd to me that the news/opinion making has focused on whether or not George Zimmerman, who shot Trayvon Martin in Florida last month, is a racist. Seems to me it makes very little...
View ArticleUnitarian Universalism: Beyond Congregations, Growing, Diversifying!
In 1990, 2001, and 2008, researchers funded by the Lily Foundation randomly dialed up about fifty thousand Americans and asked them, “What is your religion, if any? Then, they asked follow-up...
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