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Utne Independent Press Awards Nominees 2009

April 6th, 2009 · Comments Off

Utne magazine announces its Independent Press Awards Nominees 2009:
Surely you’ve heard that print journalism is doomed: layoffs this, budget cuts that, blogs, Twitter, podcasts, paid content, and so on. We, the deciders of the 20th annual Utne Independent Press Awards, must respectfully disagree with this conventional but flawed wisdom.
Take a look under “Spiritual Coverage” about [...]

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Convergence?

July 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Andrew J. Brown, an English liberal Christian Unitarian, blogs at CAUTE: Some more thoughts on Garden Academies
. . . if liberals are going to get real things done in these difficult times then we need to recall that our power has always been in the cultivation of small and ever-evolving gardens which, collectively, show something [...]

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Practicing and imitating

May 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Andrew Brown is both a jazz musician and a Unitarian and radical Christian minister. He has written No Image – No Passion or how practising rock and roll moves in the mirror taught me the value of imitation:
. . . merely desiring the fruits of a liberal religion without at the same time seriously seeking [...]

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Freedom and covenant

April 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off

From a minister-blogger I’m reading more of these days, CAUTE: On cottages, decay, barns, fire, Mt. Olympus and the moon – or the future of the liberal church . . .:
So we are left with what feels to many the inconvenient truth that to be truly free as an individual to pursue truth we must [...]

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Doug Muder unpacking metaphors

February 8th, 2008 · Comments Off

Doug Muder has posted a sermon at Free and Responsible Search: Some Assembly Required. As ever, he has an engaging intro:
[T]here used to be a little sign on Highway 24 – I don’t think it’s there any more – directing you to the Ripley Church of God.
One of my character flaws is that I lack [...]

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