What do UUs worship?
UUMomma has a post that includes the question of "what do UUs worship?"
My reply said:
Perhaps the answer can come from the definition of “worship”. Here’s one set I found via Google …
- idolize: love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; “Many teenagers idolized the Beatles”
- show devotion to (a deity); “Many Hindus worship Shiva”
- the activity of worshipping
- attend religious services; “They worship in the traditional manner”
- a feeling of profound love and admiration
I’d personally throw out the “idolize” one, and the “a deity” part of the second one. Perhaps you can make something out of the “profound love and admiration”.
UUWorld: Freedom to Marry group honors Unitarian Universalists
UUWorld
records the fact that
Three Unitarian Universalist congregations south of Boston received awards Tuesday, February 13, for their stalwart support of marriage equality for same-sex couples, particularly for lobbying state legislators to vote against a proposed amendment to the state constitution that could end marriage equality in the only state that has it.
One of them is my congregation -
United First Parish Church, Quincy, MA. The article even has a picture of our minister, Sheldon Bennett.
I'm very proud.
Joseph Ellis: The U.S. Founding Fathers: Their Religious Beliefs
Joseph Ellis, professor of history at Mount Holyoke College, discusses the religious beliefs of the founding fathers in the official
Encyclopedia Britannica blog.
In recent decades Christian advocacy groups, prompted by motives that have been questioned by some, have felt a powerful urge to enlist the Founding Fathers in their respective congregations. But recovering the spiritual convictions of the Founders, in all their messy integrity, is not an easy task. Once again, diversity is the dominant pattern. Franklin and Jefferson were deists, Washington harbored a pantheistic sense of providential destiny, John Adams began a Congregationalist and ended a Unitarian, Hamilton was a lukewarm Anglican for most of his life but embraced a more actively Christian posture after his son died in a duel.
Merlin: Democrats don't need an anti-war candidate
Louis Merlin in
Atlanta Unitarian makes a good point when he says
The search for the most pure anti-war candidate among the Democrats is an exercise in futility, backward thinking, and self-defeat.
It's always so much easier to say what we
don't believe in than what we do (Unitarian Universalists should know that better than most). As Louis says, Democrats need to come up with a positive platform, not just fall back on a negative one.
