Forums for October
Running late again. This is getting to be a habit.
October 3--Saint Margaret? Kimberly French claims that it is time to admit the early American feminist and Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller into the pantheon of Unitarian ‘saints’. “Fuller’s visionary ideas—on the need for both social and personal transformation, rationalism and mysticism, intellectual freedom and religious plurality, and democracy and human rights outside our borders—resonate with modern UUism, arguably more so than her better-known contemporaries.(Radiant Genius and Fiery Heart, UU World, Summer 2010, page 25) Whom do you regard as a Unitarian or Universalist saint? Are you inspired by historic figures who embraced Unitarianism or Universalism?
October 10--Afterlife? Doug Muder reviews three books with different views of the afterlife. One, a work of fiction, imaginatively explores the different possibilities of an afterlife in a series of short tales; the second, a memoir, looks at the possibility that death is simply extinction; the third discusses premonitions, visions, and unseen presences that have been associated with death. (What Dreams May Come? UU World, Summer 2010, page 56). What do you think happens at death? Do you think an afterlife exists? Have you ever experienced anything out of the ordinary around the death of a loved one?
October 17--From Davidson Lohr: What cause am I serving that will outlive me and carry my love and my work forward?
October 24--Adam and Eve For years, I have had my own version of the story of the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. In my version, God appears before Adam and Eve, and tells them that they have disobeyed Him. He admonishes them, and they will have to leave immediately. Everything will be completely grotesque, grim, ghastly and gruesome outside of Eden. God spares them no detail. Adam and Eve, both crestfallen and fearful, prepare to leave, but God, feeling perhaps a little guilty for the severity of his decision, looks at them and says, “Yes, things will be bad out there, but I’m giving you self-deception so you’ll never notice.” -- Errol Morris. What are we deceiving ourselves about? What don't we know that we don't know?
October 31--From Davidson Lohr: How should I live so that when I look back on my life, whether a year or decades from now, I can honestly be glad I’ve lived the way I did?
October 3--Saint Margaret? Kimberly French claims that it is time to admit the early American feminist and Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller into the pantheon of Unitarian ‘saints’. “Fuller’s visionary ideas—on the need for both social and personal transformation, rationalism and mysticism, intellectual freedom and religious plurality, and democracy and human rights outside our borders—resonate with modern UUism, arguably more so than her better-known contemporaries.(Radiant Genius and Fiery Heart, UU World, Summer 2010, page 25) Whom do you regard as a Unitarian or Universalist saint? Are you inspired by historic figures who embraced Unitarianism or Universalism?
October 10--Afterlife? Doug Muder reviews three books with different views of the afterlife. One, a work of fiction, imaginatively explores the different possibilities of an afterlife in a series of short tales; the second, a memoir, looks at the possibility that death is simply extinction; the third discusses premonitions, visions, and unseen presences that have been associated with death. (What Dreams May Come? UU World, Summer 2010, page 56). What do you think happens at death? Do you think an afterlife exists? Have you ever experienced anything out of the ordinary around the death of a loved one?
October 17--From Davidson Lohr: What cause am I serving that will outlive me and carry my love and my work forward?
October 24--Adam and Eve For years, I have had my own version of the story of the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. In my version, God appears before Adam and Eve, and tells them that they have disobeyed Him. He admonishes them, and they will have to leave immediately. Everything will be completely grotesque, grim, ghastly and gruesome outside of Eden. God spares them no detail. Adam and Eve, both crestfallen and fearful, prepare to leave, but God, feeling perhaps a little guilty for the severity of his decision, looks at them and says, “Yes, things will be bad out there, but I’m giving you self-deception so you’ll never notice.” -- Errol Morris. What are we deceiving ourselves about? What don't we know that we don't know?
October 31--From Davidson Lohr: How should I live so that when I look back on my life, whether a year or decades from now, I can honestly be glad I’ve lived the way I did?
posted by Donna | 4:38 PM
1 Comments:
Yes, Magaret Fuller should be the Unitarian Universalist equivalent of a saint. The problem with her, as well as the rest of the "holy trinity" of transcendentalism--Emerson & Thoreau--is that conventional religion and the Unitarian church in particular did not work for any of them.
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