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districts, regions, UU, uua
Who loses with regions?
02.23.10 | Permalink | 4 CommentsUU World put up a good article yesterday about the move from districts to regions. If you don’t know, the country is divided into 19 regions now, and it looks like we’re headed to merging them together to come up with five regions instead. What I’m wondering is who loses in the move [...]
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empire, religion, UU, zizek
Therapy, Criticism, and Heresy—Which Is UU?
01.28.10 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI just finished up The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity by Slavoj Zizek, the so-called wildman of philosophy. And I keep going back to a passage on the very first page of the intro.
In it, Zizek says that religion in our current day of global empire is limited to [...] -
membership, P&P, UU
How do you teach the P&P? A death match of death!
07.15.09 | Permalink | 3 CommentsChalicechick reminds us that, though the Principles & Purposes are not a creed, they are treated as one by most UUs. If she’s right about that, those of us who teach new member classes are in the difficult position of needing to teach newcomers about a creed that’s not a creed.
How should we teach them? [...] -
UU, uua
UU Women Endorse Morales
04.27.09 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThe UU Women’s Federation board has unanimously endorsed Peter Morales for president of the UUA. For a while it seemed like all the powers-that-be were lining up behind Laurel Hallman. Now it gets a little more interesting.
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initiation rituals, membership, UU, uus
What congregational membership means
02.26.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI want to lay out the perspective on congregational membership that I’ve been using in my work as a membership director in a large UU congregation over the last year or so. Maybe this can add to the conversation about the meaning and scope of UU identity and the importance of initiation rituals in [...]
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membership, UU
Pretend there are no members
Pretend there are no individual members of individual UU congregations. How would the movement go about being the movement?
