Comments on: Are Unitarian Universalists leaven for America?

By: serenityhome

serenityhome — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:50:00 +0000

Folks from Mississippi will be interested in reading about the newly formed group WeBelieveColorado as Rev. Nathan Woodliff-Stanley is a former member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Jackson, MS. He recently was in Mississippi for a visit and the congregation enjoyed hearing his journey in the ministry. Blessings,

By: juuggernaut

juuggernaut — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:11:16 +0000

I hope you are right about the leaving effect. I see some signs of it as well. Last week I filmed an event, a big gathering of various churches, synagogues and Islamic groups under the umbrella of the newly founded http://webelievecolorado.org group. One of the board members and key instigators: Jefferson Unitarian’s Rev. Nathan Woodliff-Stanley (and I think before him Peter Morales was a key player in the Interfaith Alliance out of which this grew.) WeBelieveColorado was modeled after a similar group in Ohio and tries to refocus the attention of both politicians and the media on those religious folks whose doctrines call to work for the common good.
However, I also think that the figures clearly show that we are in fact tiny, declining, and fringe. I bake with yeast – if the water you add is too hot it’ll kill the yeast. I don’t think it’ll necessarily happen to us, but insignificance except in a few lucky places for a religion that has so much to offer is just plain pitiful.

By: Robin Edgar

Robin Edgar — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:56:40 +0000

From where I stand I think that I have reasonable grounds to suggest that Unitarian*Universalism aka U*Uism, and what UUA Presidential candidate Rev. Peter Morales calls the “tiny, declining, fringe religion”, is more likely to be the matzah bread aka matzo bread of religion in American. . . Let’s not forget those fundamentalist atheist “Humanist” U*Us who deny the very existence of the “elephant” and assert that belief in that “elephant” is “primitive”.