The coming of Chrislam
Back in 1999, when grunge was still a fresh memory, I remember reading a newsweekly’s predictions for the coming millennium. One author wrote of the coming of [tag]Chrislam[/tag], a merger of...
View ArticleWhat’s your spiritual worldview?
Here’s another must-do quiz to add to Beliefnet’s excellent Belief-O-Matic quiz: What’s your theological worldview? It’s from a Christian perspective, so if you’re decidely not Christian or don’t have...
View ArticleScribe Jamboree: 10/13/2006
Posts this week from folks at The Daily Scribe: First, a stunner: Scribe CEO Shawn Anthony of Lo-Fi Tribe is leaving the Unitarian Universalist ordination track to return to Christianity. CK at...
View ArticleWhy the gods are not winning #3: Questions for UUs
[Parts one and two.] Say what you will about the irreligious, but they’re not us UUs. We’ve got atheists and agnostics to be sure, they aren’t irreligious. Otherwise they wouldn’t come to worship or...
View ArticleFaith, organized religion, spirituality
I want to thank Jaume for keeping the discussion about the New Atheists going on his blog. I want to keep the conversation going on my end, and I want to do that by talking about my own understanding...
View ArticleIs religion amoral?
Back to Sharon Welch in After Empire. An atheist, she writes: What, then, is the religious? This is the name we give to those encounters and energies that are constitutive but amoral, those encounters...
View ArticleIntroducing the “religion-industrial complex”
Writes Jacques Berlinerblau: “The 2008 presidential election is probably the first in American history that has spawned a veritable faith and politics industry.” We haven’t had one for a while?? I can...
View ArticleTherapy, Criticism, and Heresy—Which Is UU?
I just finished up The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity by Slavoj Zizek, the so-called wildman of philosophy. And I keep going back to a passage on the very first page of the...
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