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Minns Lectures: Unitarian kinship with Judaism, Islam.

Chris W. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
I'm pleased to announce the 2009 Minns Lectures. Historian Susan Ritchie, visiting professor of Unitarian Universalist history at Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, Calif., and minister of North Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Lewis Center, Ohio, will be discussing early Unitaria...
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Harvard's Daniel McKanan on building liberal institutions.

Chris W. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Daniel McKanan, Harvard's first Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity, will be giving his inaugural lecture in the Sperry Room at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., May 7 at 5:15 pm. His topic: "Unless a Seed Falls: Cultivating Liberal Instituti...
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'UU World' a finalist for Utne Independent Press Awards.

Chris W. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Utne Reader announced today that UU World, the magazine I edit for the Unitarian Universalist Association, has been named a finalist for the 2009 Utne Independent Press Awards. UU World is one of eight religion and spirituality magazines nominated in the Spiritual Coverage category, alongside venera...
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Philocrites in the pulpit, April 29, King's Chapel.

Chris W. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
I'm preaching at the 12:15 midweek service at King's Chapel in downtown Boston on Wednesday, April 29 — my first time in a pulpit since Gregory was born eleven months ago today.
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Psst, I'm preaching next week, not tomorrow.

Chris W. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
For the benefit of my email subscribers, I am not preaching tomorrow, April 22, at King's Chapel (as I had erroneously written yesterday in a post that went out by email Tuesday morning), but am in fact preaching there on Wednesday, April 29. You'll be welcome at the noontime service either week, of...
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Vote to send preservation dollars to UU sites.

Chris W. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Surely you're reading The Interdependent Web, the UU World blog that highlights the best of the UU blogosphere each week. (After all, it's the only place I've been blogging lately.) But I'm crossposting something I wrote there because I think you'd want to help some historic UU sites in Massachusett...
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Summer 2009 issue of 'UU World' now available.

Chris W. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
The Summer 2009 issue of UU World is in the mail, but you can browse the magazine's contents online right now. In this issue: the amazing story of Unitarian Universalism's rapid growth in Africa; my end-of-term interview with outgoing UUA President William G. Sinkford and Sinkford's farewell column;...
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The election is over; time to plan the next one!

Chris W. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
The Unitarian Universalist Association elected Peter Morales its eighth president on June 27, but that doesn't mean it's time for UUs to stop thinking about the way we choose our national leaders. The Board of Trustees is proposing some major changes to the way we elect the president and moderator, ...
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Philocrites is signing off.

Chris W. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
It's past time to announce the obvious: Philocrites is done, and I'm unlikely to revive it. I've been blogging at philocrites.com since 2002, when I started posting essays I had written for various Unitarian Universalist email lists as hand-coded entries. When I started using Blogger in...
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UUA Board meets in Boston, April 17-18.

Chris W. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Observers are welcome to attend the meetings of the UUA Board of Trustees and its working groups and committees, April 17-18 in Boston. Among the agendas and reports now available on UUA.org are a few related to the UUA's financial condition (previously reported by UU World), including a four-page m...
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