Comments on: A sacred story in need of a plot

By: Damn Yankees and UU morality tales at Making Chutney

Damn Yankees and UU morality tales at Making Chutney — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 02:38:26 +0000

[...] As such, it mimics a typical form of prophetic discourse, so Fausto is in good company here. But we don’t need a morality tale. Morality tales don’t have good plots. They are mere-stories, not plot-stories. We don’t need a Unitarian Universalist version of the Prodigal Son, a story that says it will all be alright if we will just come home. We need a sacred story that compels us to risk harm for the sake of another, to venture new, bold things that embody our message to the world. [...]

By: arbitrarymarks.com » Blog Archive » Daily Scribe Jamboree - Sept 22 2006

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:00:12 +0000

[...] Chutney on Story and Liberal Religion Will on What Buddhists Look Like LoFi Tribe on James Luther Adams …as well as his thoughts on Liberal Decision Making Mark Goodacre – Reading the Bible ResponsiblyÂ (hopefully he’ll review it) [...]

By: chutney

chutney — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:09:36 +0000

Will do, and many thanks for starting the conversation.

By: Mike Hogue

Mike Hogue — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:59:40 +0000

chutney,

I hope you’ll visit my blog discussion again since I have tried to clarify what I mean by “crisis” in a recent post. I’d like to hear from you what you think.

By: fouralarmfire

fouralarmfire — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:53:18 +0000

i like it, chutney. a lot. liberating religion — that’s the fork i want. you got the map?

the perpetual crisis/change management issue makes me think of Al Gore’s polar bears. apparently, we are a bunch of polar bears who think we are awesome swimmers. but, any good UU knows what happened to those bears…