Recently, my 6 year old has been asking everyone in our household whether they believe in God or not. He means, specifically, the idea of Jesus as God. The conversations go like this: “Do you believe in God?” [person answers] “Do you want to know what I believe about God? I believe that God and … Continue reading “Do you believe in God?”
Stories for All Ages King and King by Linda de Haan We used this story for a worship service focused on changing minds in the context of marriage equality, shortly before the Supreme Court took up a case on the topic. Stories for All Ages King and King by Linda de Haan We … Continue reading King & King
The Unitarian Universalist Coming of Age (COA) program is like CCD in Catholicism and Bar/Bat Mitzvah in Judaism and is designed to help our youth develop a deeper understanding of UUism as they explore their personal belief systems. COA is offered every other year at BuxMont to 8th and 9th graders. On January 13, the … Continue reading Coming of Age Survey Results
The Neighboring Faiths class is having a busy year! Our intrepid students have received introductions to a variety of world religions and journeyed to worship services throughout the area to experience these faiths in practice. So far, the class has been generously welcomed by BuxMont’s own Pagan fellowship, the Darkaynu Jewish Congregation (also meeting at … Continue reading Neighboring Faiths
Delivered by Jim Phynn, August 12, 2007 My father and his twin sister could not have been any more different. Of their parents’ eight children, he was the tallest; she was the shortest. He was the skinniest. She was, well, not the skinniest. At some point in their childhood, their sibling rivalry apparently had a dispute where, if … Continue reading Caregivers
Delivered by Gary Bennett, May 8, 2005 Imagine this: you are surrounded by loved ones, without inflated egos or scrambling for rank, wealth and power. Private property is limited to the decorative or personal. There is no “marrying or being given into marriage,” not in our economic sense. There is plenty to do, but it is meaningful labor. You toil … Continue reading Religion and Civilization
Delivered by Gary Bennett, May 23, 2004 A few years back the thesis was advanced by conservative Catholic writers, that beneath the sophisticated tolerance of America’s liberals, was one remaining “acceptable prejudice”: anti-Catholicism. Why else would anyone support birth control or oppose aid to private schools? More recently we are told that all critics of … Continue reading The Last Acceptable Prejudices
