Online Church Archives - Universal Life Church Monastery Blog
March 21st, 2013
Much has been made in the media lately of the rise of the “Nones”, but are Americans really becoming secular as quickly as news outlets suggest? Results of a new survey confirm this view, claiming that religious affiliation is undergoing an increasingly dr
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October 9th, 2012
Young Americans are turning away from organized religion more than ever, it appears, as religion becomes more intertwined with U.S. politics. Robert Putnam, a Harvard political scientist and public policy professor who has been following the trend closely, spo
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September 24th, 2012
How would you like to go to your local house of worship one day only to hear your minister, priest, rabbi, or imam tell you which presidential candidate to vote for? A growing number of religious leaders in the United States are doing precisely this, brazenly
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September 4th, 2012
The Hamilton County, Tennessee prayer dispute has taken yet another twist with a Jewish rabbi's withdrawal from the list of scheduled County Commission prayer leaders. The rabbi's withdrawal leaves only one non-Christian--a ULC minister--on the Commission's li
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August 20th, 2012
If you've been reading the ULC Monastery blog lately, you'll recall that Scott Underwood, drummer for the pop band Train, got ordained in the online church to become a wedding officiant. We're happy to say Underwood successfully performed a wedding - his first
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August 14th, 2012
Louisiana mayor Bobby Jindal's religious school voucher program is experiencing opposition from what might be seen as an unlikely source: a Baptist preacher. Rev. C. Welton Gaddy, ordained minister for Preaching and Worship at Northminster Baptist Church in Mo
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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 to be in the popular imagination. In her book Death and Dying in the Neolithic Near East, anthropologist Karina Coucher argues that Neolithic men exhi
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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 to punish the people of Earth for practicing gay marriage. For ULC wedding officiants and oth
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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. There are those that don’t want to talk about it. They th
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