Category Archives: Building Your Own Theology I

Remember when I said that discussing human nature didn’t interest me very much? Well, we had a fascinating discussion about this topic so I’m going to revisit it here. One of the things that we encourage everyone in class to do is to continue to reflect on the topics we discuss and to revise theirContinueContinue reading “BYOT: Human Nature Revisited”

This week we’re talking about human nature, which doesn’t interest me a whole lot, and the nature of God, which interests me a whole bunch. For the part of the class on human nature we’re presented with a list of quotes about what it means to be human and asked which ones we agree with.ContinueContinue reading “Building Your Own Theology (BYOT): 3: Human Nature and the Nature of God”

One of the questions we were asked to consider for this week is the following: “Some have suggested that ‘religious’ refers to experiences within the context of a religious community while ‘spiritual’ refers primarily to solitary experiences of transcendence. Do you agree or not?” and “Have your religious experiences been spontaneous and unbidden, or theContinueContinue reading “Building Your Own Theology (BYOT) 2”

Tonight I begin co-faciliating a class with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lansing called Building Your Own Theology. Originally I just wanted to take the class but my persistence in requesting it led to Callie (almost her real name), a church employee, offering to lead it with me. I’m still uncertain as to whetherContinueContinue reading “Building Your Own Theology (BYOT): 1”