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Dinosaurs, sheeps and Unitarians, oh my! (Links)
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With violence on the decline in Iraq but on the upswing in Afghanistan, President Bush is facing new pressure from the U.S. military to accelerate a troop drawdown in Iraq and bulk up force levels in Afghanistan, according to senior U.S. officials.
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I’ve found some food for thought in the word “worship.” It never occurred to me, until now, that the Quaker phrase “meeting for worship” might mean something different to other people.
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Sometimes it feels like the church community itself is the dinosaur. If it isn’t half-extinct already, it seems like it ought to be. That is - believe it or not - entirely to be expected!
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It's a circle-the-wagons,insular,bubble mentality that reminds me a little of a Soviet Propaganda film. This defensive posture couches all events, identities, policies, and daily minutia in cloying, self-referential terms of purpose and esoteric phrasing.
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The Christmas songs were creating a bridge between what I enjoyed most about the Episcopal services of my childhood and the silence and Light of the Quaker worship of my adulthood. It drew me a little closer to finding my place the Meeting community.
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A faith community that does not evoke the sense of God’s abundance is not doing its job. A church/Meeting that doesn’t put care for the marginalized at the center is “letting its sheep stray”. Like Fox, I can tap into a whole lot of anger on this
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:It's a circle-the-wagons, insular, bubble mentality that reminds me a little of a Soviet Propaganda film.
Well, interestingly enough, I have had my own problems with "Stalinistic" Unitarian*Universalists aka U*Us. I bursting U*U bubbles for over a decade now.
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%22Robin+Edgar%22+and+Stalinistic+Unitarians&meta=
:This defensive posture couches all events, identities, policies, and daily minutia in cloying, self-referential terms of purpose and esoteric phrasing.
Here are just a few online examples of the "defensive posture" of outrageously hypocritical Unitarian*Universalist U*Us, some of whom can be justifiably described as Totalitarian Unitarians -
(Former) UUA President Rev. Dr. John A. Buehrens berates me for sharing my concerns about the anti-religious intolerance and bigotry of fuindamentalist atheist "Humanist" U*U minister Rev. Ray Drennan -
http://principle4.blogspot.com/2000/12/reply-to-robin-from-john-buehrens.html
My response to Rev. Dr. John A. Buehrens' misguided "dressing down" -
http://principle4.blogspot.com/2000/12/robins-reply-to-buehrens.html
Rev. Diane Miller, the (former) director of the UUA's Ministerial Fellowship Committee, "defends" the indefensible -
http://emersonavenger.blogspot.com/2006/01/emerson-avenger-once-again-puts-uus-on.html
As does Rev. Dr. Tracey Robinson-Harris - http://emersonavenger.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-rev-dr-tracey-robinson-harris.html
A Totalitarian Unitarian and self-described "Citizens' Police Officer" "defends" the Unitarian Church of Montreal from my peaceful public protest against U*U injustices, abuses and hypocrisy -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfxw1yZAS0M
And that just the tip of the "corpse-cold" U*U iceberg. . .