Archive for December, 2005

Christmas for the Fun of It

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but Christmas is coming. I know, you may not have noticed … if you’ve spent the last month living in a fall-out shelter and you’ve never gone shopping or turned on the radio or the TV.
I’m not complaining. Well, maybe a little, but only about the chintzier [...]

A Christian Nation? A Post-Election Day Sermon

Monday, December 5th, 2005

Ever since the election, there has been a heightened interest in the role of religion in America’s public life, including claims by some members of the so-called religious right that in some essential way, the United States is a Christian country - not just demographically, but ontologically, in some innate, immutable way that should be [...]

Humanism is Alive & Well & Living in Unitarian Universalism!

Monday, December 5th, 2005

(Just not so much as before!)
There is a complicated relationship between Unitarian Universalism and Humanism, one that has changed over time and goes on changing, a fact that does not go unnoticed or unremarked upon by UU humanists and non-humanists alike. In particular these days, Humanism seems to be a less predominating outlook in [...]