Questions?

A bit of housekeeping this month. The question -- no need to write about it on your blog, just put it in comments -- what questions would you like to see The UU Salon ask?

February Big Question

In Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe, Greg Epstein writes:

"Do you believe in God?" is a totally meaningless question. The real question all people - whether secular or religious - ought to be asking themselves and one another is "What do you believe about God?"

That's the Salon Big Question for February. What do you believe about God? (Regardless of whether you believe in God or not.)

The Salon is open...

Inner Light, Radiant Life: The Big Question -- God  
Finding My Ground: What Do You Believe About God?
Earthbound Spirit: A Believing Nonbeliever

January Question

Has Unitarian Universalism outgrown congregational polity?

Edit:Please include your definition/understanding of congregational polity.

The Salon is OPEN.

CERG Staff Blog: The Once and Future Congregation

Earthbound Spirit: Congregational Polity - Salon Big Question

Inner Light, Radiant Life: The Big Question - Polity

December No Question

We're taking a break. One of us just survived finals week - the other is in search. Neither of us is ready for the holidays...

Our best wishes to all of you for a merry holiday season, however you celebrate!

LE & EBS

November Question: What is a Unitarian Universalist?

I've heard a District Executive say that it's all about being in a covenantal relationship with a UU Church -- if you're not a member of a Unitarian Universalist Church, you're not a Unitarian Universalist. Peter Bowden talks about being a freerange UU. There's been talk about lapsed UUs, affiliated/non-affiliated UUs, self-identifying UUs, and the old joke about a UU being an atheist with children.  So, then, I ask you:


What is a Unitarian Universalist?

The Salon is OPEN.

Inner Light Radiant Life: The Big Question - Who is UU?

Insert Meaningful Name Here: Freedom and Meaning 

The Journey:  What is a Unitarian Universalist? 

Yuu're a What?: November UU Salon Topic: What is a Unitarian Universalist?

October Big Question

What is sacred to us?

Here's some context: I officiate at a number of weddings, mostly for people who are not Unitarian Universalists, but have gotten my name from one of the several UU churches in my area. One couple I worked with recently had inquired about the possibility of renting one of the opulent downtown cathedral for their wedding, and were told they could not because neither of them was Catholic. They found a Protestant church that was more than happy to allow the ceremony, but the minister there would not officiate because one of the partners had never been baptized in any Christian faith.

In thinking about the boundaries other groups put on the use of their spaces, I started wondering what was sacred to us - so sacred that we claim exclusive rights. Do we allow a non-UU couple to light the chalice in their wedding ceremony? Do we require any couple being married in a UU church to be married by a UU minister?

What say you? What is sacred? Where do we draw the line? Or, is there even a line to be drawn?

The Salon is OPEN.

Inner Light, Radiant Life: UU-Specific "Sacred"

Insert Meaningful Name Here: Searcing for Sacredness 

Chalice Spark: UU Salon--What is Sacred?

September Big Question

What is the nature of evil?

Let that question take you where it leads you.  Or, if you want more prodding ... what does evil look like?  What makes up evil?  Where does it come from?  Can people be evil?  Can nature be evil?  What are the limits of evil?  If you find the concept of God to be useful, what do you understand the relationship between God and evil to be?

The Salon is OPEN:

Inner Light, Radiant Life:  The Big Question - Evil

Strange Attractor: UU Salon - An It Harm None...

Earthbound Spirit: Between the Evil and the Good

The Journey: Evil