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Wesleyan Quadrilateral Fixed: Part Two
09.08.10 | Permalink | 2 CommentsLast week I talked about my problems with the Wesleyan Quadrilateral. This week I propose a revision that I hope Unitarian Universalists (and others) will find more helpful. Super cool graphic toward the end (I promise). To review, the main problem with the Wesleyan Quadrilateral is that experience is always primary—there is no direct access […]
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Wesleyan Quadrilateral Fixed: Part One
09.01.10 | Permalink | 5 CommentsOne of my first moves away from orthodox Christianity as a Methodist seminary student was when I realized I disagreed with John Wesley about the primacy of scripture. Wesley taught that religious understanding comes to us in four ways: Revealed in Scripture Illimined by Tradition Vivified in Experience, and Confirmed by Reason Scripture, though, is […]
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UUs’ Real Problem: White Collarism
08.18.10 | Permalink | 17 CommentsContinuing the conversation about UU cultural identity, I want to suggest that what’s hurting us the most isn’t white privilege but what I call “white collarism.” What does white collarism look like? Here are two of it’s unspoken assumptions: The assumption that others would share my cultural or political views and interests if only they […]
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What We’re Doing Wrong
08.12.10 | Permalink | 5 CommentsVessel has already posted a great response to John Katz’ recent UU World article defending UU culture, so I’ll just focus on one sentence: If non-whites can meld so easily into our snob-culture that it becomes invisible even to them, then someone please tell me what we’re doing wrong. Really, you don’t see any barriers to […]
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Worst Case Scenario: Phoenix 2012 Boycott
06.14.10 | Permalink | 4 CommentsI don’t think anyone has asked yet who might take our place in Phoenix if we do decide to boycott. Just for the sake of argument, what if the Tea Party or some nativist organization took our spot and showed up with 4,000 conventioneers, 500 of whom turned out for a demonstration at the state capitol […]
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Rhetoric and reality: Phoenix 2012
06.12.10 | Permalink | 7 CommentsThe rhetoric is starting to get a little heated, and one blogger has already apologized for stepping over the line. There’s going to be more and more temptation to bring out weapons of rhetorical mass destruction as we get closer and closer to GA. I’m not a delegate, but if I were, I would be […]
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