Tête-à-Tête-Tête

Hopefully, this week, I’ll have time to post another in the Universal Common Descent series, and I just wanted to say a word or two about the importance of it.
First - it isn’t very important. In the grand scheme of things, it is certainly no-where near as important as the big things in [...]

Please, please, do not let election 2008 become Bible Wars 2008. For the record, it’s very doubtful that Dobson or Obama have a proper understanding of the book behind their religion. Obama’s may have the advantage of being more vague and more self-consciously informed by modern ethical notions. Dobson’s may have the advantage [...]

I have stated before on this blog and in other contexts that universal common ancestry is “proven” by multiple lines of very strong evidence. I sometimes take it for granted that most people are at least dimly aware of this, even if they haven’t looked into the question personally in any depth. That is a [...]

The real story here is a self-described atheist couple behaving very unethically. But what I found remarkable was the quote at the end:
He added that a special ceremony would be held to purify the confession box.
What kind of ceremony gets up that kind of stuff, anyway? If it’s my confession booth, I’m going [...]

Reading this article in the latest UU World, I was struck by just how true the central point is. I recognized the thought process immediately. I do have some leftover childhood imagination, and I find that almost everything I do with a margin of satisfaction has some of this kind of thinking behind [...]

This helps. Probably not enough… Hold on to your wallets - the current economic crisis is just going to gather speed under McCain. Two side notes — 1) It’s good to see the kind of religion where the parishioners aren’t afraid to call their preachers out for nonsense. 2) Chuck B. - I feel [...]

Pretty good speech given before he decided to run for the Presidency.
I wish he could get the nomination. I would love to be able to see and hear more about who he is, how he feels and what he thinks.
It takes 40 minutes to watch this thing but it really is worth setting aside the [...]

Sunday - 9:30 - Unitarian Universalist Church of Chattanooga
The book is Job, and I’ve gotta say I’m terribly excited about it. I hope anyone from the area who can make it to this session of Rediscovering the Bible, will make it. Those who can’t, religious or no, I hope you’ll take a while and re-read [...]

I’ve been way out of the loop the last week or two. Last week was a vacation from work, but with two dentist visits, a trip to the DMV and a host of other little errands, it didn’t seem much like a vacation at all. We did round everybody up for a trip [...]

As promised, here I am, back again this Monday. I’m afraid this will mostly be all about me, and my weekend, and I honestly can’t blame you if you don’t care. I mainly only care about my own. I will say, before I insist my feelings won’t be hurt if you navigate away to [...]