Newsletters / ULC Newsletter - April, 2010

Defending Ministers' Rights in Virginia
Universal Life Church Monastery has been a pioneer in the struggle to protect the rights of ministers who are ordained online, which at times has been a gradual and piece-meal journey. There are still outposts in the United States where the local judiciary has ruled against the sacerdotal rights of ministers ordained online to legally perform wedding ceremonies, and Virginia is one of these places...
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DC Judge Bars ULCM Minister from Officiating Weddings
The Universal Life Church Monastery is no stranger to litigation and legal controversy, even in its days of mail-order ordination, the original Universal Life Church raised questions about the validity of the long-distance ordination process, as reflected in the history of ULC legal cases...
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The Great Debate over Jesus Christ's Mission
Perhaps no issue is touchier for Christians than the true mission of Jesus Christ and the implications this has for the doctrine of grace. The core doctrine of traditional Christianity is the cornerstone on which the faith, whether Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant, depends...
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Church, Technology, and Web-based Ministries
When Gutenberg's printing press was invented in the fourteenth century, it allowed a whole new generation of literate churchgoers the opportunity to interpret the teachings of the Bible themselves rather than rely on priests as intermediaries to do so for them...
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