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August 28th, 2012
Should ministers be selective about their charitable giving, or should they assume an attitude of non-judgmental liberality? A new study on the generosity of Americans might shed light on this question.
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August 10th, 2012
Gun violence seems to be reaching epidemic proportions in the United States. On Sunday, 5 August, a man shot to death six people at the Wisconsin Sikh Temple, just weeks after the Colorado cinema gun massacre.
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August 6th, 2012
It turns out Stone Age men may not have been the stoic, macho, callous wooly mammoth hunters we envision them as. A new book suggests that ancient men were actually very in touch with their "feminine side".
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August 3rd, 2012
After an arduous legal battle, a Universal Life Church minister has been denied a permit for a "Goddess Temple" on property he owns in Chico, California. The Butte County Board of Supervisors ruled against the permit.
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August 2nd, 2012
Ministers say the darnedest things. In a sermon to his congregation at Knollwood Church in Mobile, Alabama, Pastor Aaron Fruh declared that God caused the Great Flood because we practice gay marriage.
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July 31st, 2012
This past week saw a terrible tragedy in Colorado. Our hearts go out to those touched by this horrific and senseless event, and we pray for a sound recovery both physically, and psychologically.
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July 5th, 2012
A rather unusual type of mass religious rite took place 30 June in the U.S. city of Salt Lake City. In a bold show of resistance to the authority, 150 people left the LDS Church in droves.
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July 3rd, 2012
The obesity epidemic in the United States is something we've been following closely here on the ULC Monastery blog. Here's how you, as a ULC minister, can help fight it.
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June 28th, 2012
How would the discovery of alien life change religion? We hope ULC ministers would embrace diversity and forge solidarity through our common purpose of doing the right thing.
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The Universal Life Church Ministries proudly welcomes all who feel called to get ordained, regardless of creed. We enable all faiths; Christian, Jewish, Mormon, Muslim, Pagan, Wiccan, Atheist – and more – to join our growing non-denominational congregation. Underlying everything we do is a simple core belief: that we are all children of the same universe.