We flew in this evening from GA. I’m sorry I didn’t post more, but I just couldn’t bring myself to pay $10 per day for access at the hotel, and I was too busy to post much during the day.
I want to spill my guts about the GA, but I also want to save some stuff for my July 13th sermon on the topic. So I’ll tell you generally that I am thrilled to be a Unitarian Universalist after these meetings. All the good things that spring from our liberal theology were on full display. I attended workshops on becoming an officially LGBT welcoming congregation, on the loss of our civil liberties after 9/11 (this one featured a senator and an attorney who were absolutely fascinating) and on UU theology in the Philippines, India and Transylvania (which acutally has a Unitarian catechism which asks Unitarian youths to confess belief in ‘our father God, Jesus the greatest among the sons of God, and the Holy Spirit). I visited booths sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship, the HUUmanists, the UU Mystics and Buddhists and the Harvard Divinity School. I spoke with the Harvard Humanist chaplain, Forrest Church (a UU minister and prolific author who is dying of cancer and writing about the process along the way) and Rebecca Ann Parker, president of Starr King School for the Ministry and co-author of the newly-released “Saving Paradise.”
Best of all, I bought 10 books, including a children’s book detailing the true story of two male penguins who partnered and built a nest in their zoo habitat. The two were given an egg and sat on it until it hatched, then took care of the young one just like all the other penguin couples. I also bought Marcus and Josie a book about the teachings of Jesus and a book of Zen teachings for children.
But if you only click one link, click this one. This guy was AMAZING.
We’re truly diverse. We’re truly accepting. And we’re truly, though imperfectly, trying our best as an association, to live out our faith. I’m realizing that I’ve found my people. For one who has been searching for a long time, that’s an amazing feeling.
Check out my comments in your mother’s day 2007 sermon where you talked about bible inerrancy, etc.
I want to know your heart more than I want to argue with you. I want to know how you arrived at your current destination. And I want to know why you invested so much time in education if your heart was moving this direction from the start. I would have thought a person with your convictions would have spent more time in philosophy instead of forcing yourself to learn the theological bull-shnake that you learned under another traditional theological institution.