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F&RS is the philosophical/religious blog of Doug Muder. Its title comes from "a free and responsible search for truth and meaning," the 4th principle of Unitarian Universalism. You can find Doug's weekly political summary at The Weekly Sift and his longer political articles at Open Source Journalism. He also writes on a number of group blogs under the pseudonym Pericles.
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- Doug Muder
- Doug Muder blogs about religion (Free and Responsible Search) and politics (The Weekly Sift). He writes a bimonthly column for the magazine UU World. Doug lives in Nashua, NH with his wife Deb Bodeau.
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I know I'm a little late, but I just read Message or Culture. I'm glad you have caught up with what I've been saying for years. You said it much more clearly.
Now, the work is figuring out what we want to keep and what we can let go of. Is anyone working on that?
Can we let go of bad singing? Dan Harper just wrote about the possibilities of teaching us to sing together. http://www.danielharper.org/blog/?p=4851
Can we be both intellectual and emotional? Can we learn to swing and sway and clap even without explicit permission? Can we learn to evangelize the Good News rather than hiding our light under a bushel basket? Or, at least, let people know we are UUs....
Once, we went to Glide Memorial in San Francisco for a service. It was lively and emotional, and pretty close in message to UUism, though a bit more "Christian" sounding -- not much though. But people were having real EXPERIENCES there. So many were crying with joy that ushers pass around tissues as part of their duties. It was moving, and joyous. I think we can do that and still have a great intellectual message. I say that as a person who loves ideas (as Huston Smith described it; a person "for whom ideas dance and sing".) I also quote Sarah Light, a teenager at the time, who said, "I want a sermon that will make me cry."
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