When Liberalism Goes Terribly Wrong
by Terry Anderson | August 12, 2024 | News, Religious history | 0 Comments
When Liberalism Goes Terribly Wrong (Alternatively – When Populism Swings Left) We hope you will be able to join us for an important service from UU Spokane on Sunday August 18. As you see from the description below, the topic is timely, and given Todd's insights and...
New Edition of the UUnderWorld
by Terry Anderson | August 11, 2024 | News, Religious history | 0 Comments
The Aug. 2024 issue of the UU Underworld: A Newsletter for Unitarian Universalist FreeThinkers is now available.here.This version of the UUUnderworld features articles, advise, humour and letters to the editor. Make sure you read and share Rebecca Pace's warning to...
Unitarianism and Freedom of Thought – by John Dietrich updated by and Todd Eklof
by Terry Anderson | July 28, 2024 | News, Religious history, Worship Service | 0 Comments
While many of us had the opportunity to hear Rev. Eklof present an amended version of Rev. John Dietrich's 1918 sermon, "Unitarianism and Freedom of Thought", last Sunday on UUSpokane zoom, some of you did not. For me, it was an extremely powerful and meaningful...
New post GA issue of the UnderWorld
by Terry Anderson | July 13, 2024 | News, Religious history | 0 Comments
The UU Underworld - A Newsletter for Unitarian Universalist FreeThinkers is a new occasional periodical edited by John Griffin Miller. This 25 page, 2024 Post GA issue of the Underworld, contains a summary of the activities and results of the recent General Assembly...
New NAUA Circle
by Terry Anderson | July 2, 2024 | News | 0 Comments
NAUA is sponsoring another new CIRCLE called Nurturing Your Spiritual Life CIRCLE that will be open to 12 participants and will meet every other Thursday beginning at 4:00 PM PDT (7:00 EDT) for 10 to 12 sessions. The purpose of the CIRCLE will be to discuss ideas and...
Dr Todd Eklof’s Response to the Monumental UUA Bylaw Changes
by Terry Anderson | June 28, 2024 | News | 0 Comments
In this 13 minute video Rev. Todd Eklof details the many concerns that many of feel after the wholesale revision of the Principles and Values of the Unitarian Universalist Association. He repeats a theme first introduced in the Gadfly Papers that the merge of the...
UUA Delegates Vote to Eliminate Principles and Sources
by Terry Anderson | June 25, 2024 | News, Religious history | 0 Comments
The voting delegates to the 2024 UUA General Assembly voted 80.2% to amend Article 2 of their bylaws to remove the 7 Principles and the Sources and to replace them with a set of values with 'love' at their centre. Amendments to add "Reason" and "Peace" to the list...
Bob Simoni’s Letter to the Editor
by Terry Anderson | June 18, 2024 | News, Religious history | 0 Comments
Dear Editor: It’s now been 5 years since Rev. Todd Eklof published his book The Gadfly Papers and distributed it freely at the UUA General Assembly in Spokane in July 2019. Like the ceremonial nailing of the 95 Theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg by Martin...
New Issue of the Liberal Beacon
by Terry Anderson | June 11, 2024 | Liberal Beacon, News | 0 Comments
This issue of, #11 of the Liberal Beacon focuses on liberal religion’s connection to the wider world, beginning with Ann Pandya’s article about India’s first woman doctor and her relationship to Unitarianism. This is followed by an article submitted by the...
Rev. Todd Eklof – on the Road
by Terry Anderson | April 28, 2024 | News | 0 Comments
The Rev. Dr. Todd Eklof is shown below visiting the members of the NAUA Fellowship in Hayward California. As always, it is nice when Unitarians across the continent make time, effort, and energy costs to meet face-to-face. Which reminds of the dates for the First NAUA...
New Edition of the Liberal Beacon
by Terry Anderson | April 5, 2024 | Liberal Beacon, News | 1 Comment
The Liberal Beacon #10 Featured Articles: Sensing the Spiritual Realm: Benneville and Early Universalist Pietism - Vernon Chandler Religious Pluralism in Context - Terry Cummings The Diversity of Diversity: Why Integration is Still the Right Way Forward - Bruce...
What stage of Reaction to the Changes in Unitarian Universalism are you at?
by Terry Anderson | March 28, 2024 | Liberal Beacon, News | 0 Comments
In this insightful article, Dr. Stephen Polmar examines changes and reactions within the Unitarian movement using the famous stages of grief model developed by Dr. Kubler Ross. This article was first published in the Oct. 2023 issue of the Liberal Beacon and bears...
I Before We Except Overseas – Tracing The Roots Of Our Multi-Century Identity Crisis
by Terry Anderson | March 18, 2024 | NAUA Academy, News | 0 Comments
Most cultures of European descent cultivate individual identity more than other cultures of the world. We have to go back 60, or 100, or perhaps 300 years to find the roots of our contemporary debates over the role of identity in our society. One intriguing theory is...
Unitarian Rev. Samuel Joseph May – education, women’s rights, and abolition of slavery.
by Terry Anderson | February 19, 2024 | News, Religious history, Worship Service | 0 Comments
The Reverend Rick Davis talks about American Unitarian Rev. Samuel Joseph May who during the nineteenth century championed education, women's rights, and abolition of slavery. Aligning the efforts and successes of past Unitarian leaders with our efforts today,...
Understanding our Supreme Courts: US and Canadian Perspectives
by Terry Anderson | February 16, 2024 | NAUA Academy, News | 0 Comments
In these session (origionally presented on Feb 13, 2024) our three presenters discus the ways in which our two Supreme Courts are appointed and some of the major issues with which they deal. The decisions of these courts have powerful and sometimes unexpected effects...