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Does Reading the Bible Make People More Liberal?

October 27th, 2011

Frequent Bible-reading can make people more liberal, posits a Baylor University doctoral candidate in his master's thesis, contradicting commonly-held stereotypes about liberals and conservatives. (That is something for ULC wedding officiants to ponder, given Continue Reading »

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Christian Professor: “Did Jesus die for Klingons too?”

October 15th, 2011

Did Jesus die for Worf too? One man has attempted to answer this very question. A while ago on the ULC Monastery blog, we discussed what discovering extraterrestrial life would mean for religion, but we did not exactly address how such a discovery might chall Continue Reading »

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"Occupy Wall Street" Draws Religious Progressives

October 12th, 2011

Religion and liberal progressivism have become increasingly polarized in the United States, but new grassroots forces are rising to reunite the two. Typically religion has been absent from left-wing protest movements, but the Occupy Wall Street movement which Continue Reading »

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The God Particle Revisited

October 4th, 2011

Back in April, you may recall our story exploring some ideas related to the God particle (God's Work or Satan's Revenge - Universal Life Church | ULC | Get ...) and the possibility of time travel, as well as their possible connections to the development of man Continue Reading »

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Alabama Town to Criminals: Jail, or Church

September 28th, 2011

Mixing religion and government is nothing new in the United States--it happens all the time--but a recent case in the rural state of Alabama is particularly noteworthy for the blatant way in which it violates the United States Constitution. Many of our own Uni Continue Reading »

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