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Students Find Niche in ULC Ministry

March 25th, 2011

When there are research papers to write and final exams to study for, who has time to perform a wedding ceremony? Apparently, a substantial number of people do. Students have shown an increasingly high profile in the ranks of ULC Monastery ministers. This is d Continue Reading »

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Arizona “Day of Prayer” Faces Legal—and Logical—Roadblocks

March 24th, 2011

A secular foundation which supports separation of church and state is suing Jan Brewer, governor of the U.S. state of Arizona, for proclaiming a day of prayer on the grounds that it violates the United States Constitution. Perhaps the most disturbing thing abo Continue Reading »

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Grammy Award Winner and Former Monkees Guitarist Mike Nesmith Joins ULC Ministry

March 21st, 2011

Joining the ranks of nondenominational ULC celebrity ministers such as David Byrne, Kathy Griffin, and Jeff Probst is Mike Nesmith, former guitarist-singer of the 1960s pop group The Monkees. Nesmith recently decided to get ordained online in the ULC in order Continue Reading »

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School Prayer Hogs the Headlines—Yet Again

March 16th, 2011

Yet another attempt at injecting prayer into public schools has been challenged, this time in the U.S. city of Baltimore. Perhaps more unsettling than this is the fact that the president of the city principals’ union has defended the prayer services, lamenti Continue Reading »

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The Modern ULC Wedding

March 14th, 2011

What comes to mind when you think “wedding”? If you come from the West, you probably see images of women in giant, embroidered white dresses, men in sober black tuxedoes, and matching bridesmaids and groomsmen. A boy will bear the rings, a girl will toss t Continue Reading »

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Same-Sex Marriage: Whose Freedom Matters?

March 8th, 2011

We often hear religious people complain about religious oppression if same-sex marriage becomes legal in their community, but what of religious oppression when it is banned? As the U.S. state of Maryland’s General Assembly was mulling legalizing same-sex mar Continue Reading »

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New York State Mulls Bill on ULC Weddings

March 7th, 2011

The New York State Assembly—the lower house of the New York State Legislature—is being presented with a bill that would change the domestic relations law so as to permit Universal Life Church ministers to solemnize weddings in New York State. The purpose o Continue Reading »

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TV Series Big Love Touches on Online Ordination

March 3rd, 2011

In the acclaimed HBO series Big Love, one of the characters has a thing or two to say about free ordination online—basically, that it smacks of corruption. This may seem ironic, since the fictional program follows the lives of a fundamentalist Mormon family Continue Reading »

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Why It Is Unfair to Teach Creationism in Public Schools

February 28th, 2011

In the United States, many fundamentalist Christians support teaching creationism side-by-side with evolution in public schools in order to provide a balance of perspectives. After all, they claim, it is only fair. The problem with this argument is that it is Continue Reading »

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Man Lists Religion as “Redneck”

February 25th, 2011

You may think it odd that a person should describe his or her religion as Jedi, but a man who was arrested in the U.S. state of Florida listed his religion as “redneck”. The incident makes one wonder: exactly how far can the limits on the definition of rel Continue Reading »

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