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?
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
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?
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?
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
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
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
Sunday, August 1, 2010
August Big Question
First, watch the movie trailer...
If you've read the books, you know that Harry really has more than one possible answer - and this one is incomplete.
So, this month's Salon question is: Why do you live?
Take out your parchment & quills and begin. And please, answer more completely than Harry.
The Salon is OPEN.
Inner Life, Radiant Life: The Big Question - Why Live?
The Journey: Why I Live, or "The Time of My Life"
Earthbound Spirit: Livin' This Life ...
Ms. Kitty's Saloon and Road Show: Why Do I Live?
Nagoonberry: I live to understand
UU Momma: Why Do I Live?
Seeking Divinity: Why Live?
If you've read the books, you know that Harry really has more than one possible answer - and this one is incomplete.
So, this month's Salon question is: Why do you live?
Take out your parchment & quills and begin. And please, answer more completely than Harry.
The Salon is OPEN.
Inner Life, Radiant Life: The Big Question - Why Live?
The Journey: Why I Live, or "The Time of My Life"
Earthbound Spirit: Livin' This Life ...
Ms. Kitty's Saloon and Road Show: Why Do I Live?
Nagoonberry: I live to understand
UU Momma: Why Do I Live?
Seeking Divinity: Why Live?
Thursday, July 1, 2010
July Big Question
Salvation!
What is it, who gets it, how do you get it?
Answer it on your blog, then post your link in the moderated comments.
The Salon is OPEN.
Boston Unitarian: a present salvation
Inner Light, Radiant Life: The Big Question - Salvation
A Journey of Ministry: A Question of Salvation
Insert Meaningful Name Here: Gettin' on Board With Salvation
Ms. Kitty's Saloon and Road Show: What Must I Do to be Saved?"...
yUU're a what?: UU Salon’s July Big Question — Salvation
Liberal Faith Development: Salvation -- July 2010 UU Salon Topic
What is it, who gets it, how do you get it?
Answer it on your blog, then post your link in the moderated comments.
The Salon is OPEN.
Boston Unitarian: a present salvation
Inner Light, Radiant Life: The Big Question - Salvation
A Journey of Ministry: A Question of Salvation
Insert Meaningful Name Here: Gettin' on Board With Salvation
Ms. Kitty's Saloon and Road Show: What Must I Do to be Saved?"...
yUU're a what?: UU Salon’s July Big Question — Salvation
Liberal Faith Development: Salvation -- July 2010 UU Salon Topic
Monday, May 31, 2010
June Big Question
Universalism, the "other U." What does it mean to you? Do you resonate with Universalism, or not? What about the Universalist perspective challenges or comforts you? This is what I've been thinking about lately, and I'll post on it over at Earthbound Spirit in a day or two.
But now The Salon is open! Leave a comment if you blog about this question & LE or I will add it to the post!
~Rev. Earthbound Spirit
Inner Light, Radiant Life: The Big Question -- Universalism, Take 1
Inner Light, Radiant Life: The Big Question -- Universalism, Take 2
Moxie Life: The Other U
Chalice Spark: UU Salon -- Universalism
REBT Unitarian: My Relationship to Our Universalist Brethren
Ms. Kitty's Saloon and Road Show: Universalism Got a Hold On Me
A UU Deist in Texas: June's UU Big Question -- The Other 'U'
Insert Meaningful Name Here: What's Universal About Universalism?
Boston Unitarian: Complete Harmony and Perfection
A Southern "Universalist Church" History: UU Salon - Universalism
UU-ing, thoughts about being an Unitarian Universalist: UU Salon - Universalism
Boy in the Bands: My Universalism in June Post
The Challenge of Universalism
Liberal Faith Development: Universalism in Our History and Where We Are Today
The Journey: Universalism and Mission
YUU're a What?: Big June Question
Sermons in Stones: Universalism: Redemption is always possible
Saturday, May 1, 2010
May Big Question
What is a soul?
Does it exist before we are born? Does it disappear when we die? It is unchangeable, or capable of growing/shrinking/strengthening? Can you lose your soul, or gain one?
Answer it on your blog, then post your link in the moderated comments.
The Salon is OPEN:
Monkey Mind: THE BALLAD OF TOM JOAD: A Reflection on That One Big Soul
The Journey: THE SOUL
Boston Unitarian: stretched in smiling repose
MissDRE and Wonder: Soul?
Strange Attractor: Soulfully Agnostic
CUUMBAYA: What is a soul?
Finding My Ground: The Soul
Insert Meaningful Name Here: Soulful Strut
Inner Light, Radiant Life: The Big Question, Soul
Seeking Divinity: UU Salon: May - The Soul
Sparks in the Dark: What's a Soul?
REBT Unitarian: What is a Soul?
Does it exist before we are born? Does it disappear when we die? It is unchangeable, or capable of growing/shrinking/strengthening? Can you lose your soul, or gain one?
Answer it on your blog, then post your link in the moderated comments.
The Salon is OPEN:
Monkey Mind: THE BALLAD OF TOM JOAD: A Reflection on That One Big Soul
The Journey: THE SOUL
Boston Unitarian: stretched in smiling repose
MissDRE and Wonder: Soul?
Strange Attractor: Soulfully Agnostic
CUUMBAYA: What is a soul?
Finding My Ground: The Soul
Insert Meaningful Name Here: Soulful Strut
Inner Light, Radiant Life: The Big Question, Soul
Seeking Divinity: UU Salon: May - The Soul
Sparks in the Dark: What's a Soul?
REBT Unitarian: What is a Soul?
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