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Showing posts with label Gadfly Papers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gadfly Papers. Show all posts
Friday, August 27, 2021

Quote of the day - Without a vision the people will perish

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Unitarian Universalism has failed to create a meta narrative around which people can collaborate and thrive. This failure is the biggest cha...
Friday, August 20, 2021

Why are Unitarian Universalists engaged in social justice work?

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  The mission of facilitating spiritual growth gets captured by special interests who want to use the organizational resources to advocate f...
Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Quote of the day - UU and self righteous indignation

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 "Many people have walked away disgusted from Unitarian Universalism because of the self righteous indignation expressed by those in po...
Friday, August 6, 2021

Quote of the day - The pernicious dynamic in Unitarian Universalism

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 "Safetyism is a pernicious dynamic which is stultifying the life and grace of Unitarian Universalism especially in light of the fourth...
Sunday, August 1, 2021

Notes on the Gadfly Papers as a flipbook.

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   You can download this booklet as a PDF and save it and/or print it as you wish.
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The Gadfly Papers - If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

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If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. In the third essay in The Gadfly Papers, “Let’s Be Reasonable” Rev. Dr. ...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

UU: Divorce or rejuvenation?

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UU: Divorce or rejuvenation? It also remains doubtful Universalism’s pre-merger Judeo-Christian tradition, its faith in Jesus, or its belief...
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Sunday, July 11, 2021

How to join a UU church? "Just sign the book."

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                                                              Just sign the book In the report’s concluding remarks, Rev. Paul N. Carnes, wh...
Saturday, July 10, 2021

UU offers the hope for a spiritual journey but provides no map.

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  Spiritual journey with no map This jumbled, if not relativistic, understanding of what Unitarian Universalism means to UUs themselves beco...
Monday, July 5, 2021

Mission creep leads to UU enervation.

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Mission creep leads to enervation.  In the second essay entitled “I want a divorce” in his book of three essays, The Gadfly Papers, Rev. Dr....
Sunday, July 4, 2021

Is UU dividing its members by catering to special interests?

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  Topic Eight Unitarian Universalism catering to special interests. Fortunately, Unitarian Universalism need only recall its roots to embrac...
Saturday, July 3, 2021

What's really important in Unitarian Universalism.

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What's really important in Unitarian Universalism Since, and this again is the point, there is no consistency regarding when or how a wo...
Thursday, July 1, 2021

What happens when the bullied bully?

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  Topic Six What happens when the bullied bully? This, understandably, has also led to an emerging pattern of “defensive self-censorship”[63...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

When callout culture is uncharitable.

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  Topic Five When callout culture is uncharitable. it is not a good idea to start by assuming the worst about people and reading their actio...
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Sunday, June 27, 2021

The kind of leadership UU needs.

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  The kind of leadership UU needs. Banishing those with whom we disagree, or banning them from saying what we disagree with, has been part o...
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Saturday, June 26, 2021

Unitarian Universalism has lost its way.

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  Topic three Unitarian Universalism has lost its way. The puritanical pressures now being instituted by internal denominational forces to c...
Friday, June 25, 2021

Righteousness - The UU sin

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Righteousness In denying, further, that “Sometimes there are no two good sides,” and, by implication, this is one of those times, the writer...
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Thursday, June 24, 2021

Safetyism - The toxic virus infecting Unitarian Universalism

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Safetyism Lukianoff and Haidt have coined a term to describe this belief that it is morally correct that some freedoms, especially the free ...
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