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TV Series House Confronts Issue of Online Ordination

April 4th, 2011

A recent episode of the television show House tackled the issue of online ordination head-on, highlighting concerns that some have about getting ordained online to officiate weddings.

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Polygamy and Religious Freedom

April 1st, 2011

Recently on the ULC Monastery blog, we discussed the HBO series Big Love, which follows the lives of several polygamists in a fundamentalist Mormon sect. In one episode, one of the characters attends a pro-polygamy demonstration. But can polygamy be protected

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Is Church Bad for Your Health?

March 30th, 2011

Take a look at this picture. You will notice that there is not a single serving of fruits or vegetables on the man’s plate of food. And there are not one, but two drumsticks. Most of us are familiar with the claims that Americans are fatter and more religio

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Is Religion Going the Way of the Dodo?

March 28th, 2011

A new study suggests that religion will eventually become extinct because it is becoming less useful to people. The extinction of religion, the study shows, may already be underway in Europe and Canada, and may even be accelerating. Even in the absence of reli

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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

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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 Constitution.

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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

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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 Baltimore, and the president of the city principals’ union has defended the prayer services.

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The Modern ULC Wedding

March 14th, 2011

What comes to mind when you think “wedding”? You probably see images of women in white dresses, men in black tuxedoes, and matching bridesmaids and groomsmen. But weddings can come in all shapes and sizes.

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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

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