Reinhold Neibuhr has long been attributed as the author of the famous Serenity Prayer:
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference.
Neibuhr was one of the most important liberal theologians of the 20th century (his stream of theology was actually called [...]
A post here yesterday described how the Universalists also used to call themselves the Universalians, which prompted Philocrites to amusingly wonder whether UUs might today be called Unitarian Univers-aliens, a rather out-of-this-world moniker. There are other terms that have dropped out of use, but were once popular as self-descriptions in the annals of Unitarianism [...]
There are persistent grumblings about the length, tongue-twisting, and Unity/Unification-like nature of the term Unitarian-Universalist. Right after the two denominations consolidated there was a strong push to change the name to the Liberal Church or Liberal Christians, but the proponents were outmaneuvered and the name Unitarian-Universalist hasn’t been challenged on the institutional level since.
It’s worth [...]
Bill Baar asks what “retribution” means in the 1899 Boston profession by the Universalists, which is today’s Universalist Quote of the Day. To put it simply (since your T&P blogmaster is still on partial summertime research hiatus), there were two main camps that developed in the Universalist ranks, historiographically known as the Restorationists and the [...]
The 2008 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion will be held from November 1-3 in Chicago. There are many events that will be of interest to Unitarian-Universalists specifically, and to others who study liberal religion generally.
Also, this year Collegium will be held in Chicago on October 30-November 1. Collegium is an [...]
Today’s Universalist quote of the day offers a glimpse at how classical theistic Universalism began to evolve toward Humanism as it was impacted by (and contributed to) modernist liberal theology. The faint whiff of Calvinism can still be detected here, but what is interesting is how the rejection of a theology of a judgmental God [...]
“It is astonishing how barren the Christian creeds are of any expression of faith in Man–the highest organism in the visible creation. We believe that man is created in the image of God, and is able to know and do his will. Man is not a worm, a slave, a wreck, but a [...]
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life conducted a major study–the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey–that reveals data about huge numbers of Americans and their religious inclinations. The first part of the study, released in February, looked at the number of adherents within religious groups. This blog reported on the surprisingly high number [...]
So says the Pew U.S. Religious Landscape Survey. The last blog post suggested that UUs affirm the importance of religion but don’t practice it all that much–but that’s if you take group worship as your model. If you look at more individual practices, a different pattern emerges. A huge majority–77%–of Unitarian-Universalists answered [...]
Though not as important as it is to many other Americans, the Pew U.S. Religious Landscape Survey discovers. A healthy majority–61%–of UUs consider religion to be somewhat or very important in their lives. On the other hand, 34% said that religion isn’t important. The overall American population, meanwhile, considers religion important 82% of the time. [...]
