Month: June 2024
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Dr Todd Eklof’s Response to the Monumental UUA Bylaw Changes
Read more: Dr Todd Eklof’s Response to the Monumental UUA Bylaw ChangesIn 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 Unitarians with the Universalists resulted in a profound and continuing identity crisis…
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UUA Delegates Vote to Eliminate Principles and Sources
Read more: UUA Delegates Vote to Eliminate Principles and SourcesThe 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 of guiding values were defeated by the delegates.…
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June 15, 2024 – Renewing Our Free and Responsible . Search for Truth & Meaning
Read more: June 15, 2024 – Renewing Our Free and Responsible . Search for Truth & MeaningOdell Havsdotter examines what it means to renew and regenerate our commitment to our fourth principle. What does it mean to be free in our search, and what does it mean to be responsible in our search? There will be opportunities for attendees to share their perspectives on this topic with others. Recent Posts Archives
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June 18, 2024 – A Life Well Lived
Read more: June 18, 2024 – A Life Well LivedBob Simoni lead May’s NAUA Community Worship service which is entitled “A Life Well Lived”, a phrase which you might hear used at a Memorial Service for someone who led an exemplary life. The sermon will discuss what are some of the significant events of a person’s life that would lead one to say it…
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Bob Simoni’s Letter to the Editor
Read more: Bob Simoni’s Letter to the EditorDear 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 Luther in 1517, it has led to major…