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A Lesson on Generosity for Universal Life Church Ministers

February 7th, 2013

Pretend you are a struggling restaurant server scraping by to make ends meet. You get back your customer's bill and read the following words scrawled all over it: "I give God 10%. Why do you get 18?" This is precisely what one server experienced recently when Continue Reading »

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How ULC Ministers Can Approach Violence in the Bible

February 1st, 2013

"Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones!" Normally when we think of the Biblical book of Psalms, we envision prayerful, peaceful meditations on patience, faithfulness, and longing, but the above quotation comes from Psalm Continue Reading »

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ULC Ministers and the “Religion” of Shopping

December 6th, 2012

Americans couldn’t wait until Black Friday to get their hands on cheap Christmas presents this year--they were already storming the nation’s big-box stores on Thanksgiving Day, even starting mass riots over the most coveted items. According to Lawrence S. Continue Reading »

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Questions and Answers about U.S. Same Sex Marriages

November 27th, 2012

In the month leading up to the day Washington state’s new same sex marriage law will go into effect, Dec. 6, many same sex couples who reside there have questions about the logistics of getting married. The answers to these questions range from simple to hig Continue Reading »

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