Category Archives: Religion

The Upside and the Downside of UU

I’ve spoken mostly about the positives of the UU church but there are some negatives too so I wanted to check back in on how I’m doing with this religion whose services I’m attending every week. Let’s start with the services. I enjoy them – the singing, lighting candles to commemorate joys and sorrows, theContinueContinue reading “The Upside and the Downside of UU”

BYOT Revisited: Prayer

This whole class on the nature of God has generated so many thoughts that just keep going! Another one of the questions we were asked to ponder was on the role that prayer plays in our lives. One of the possible responses to the questionnare we filled out for class about prayer was: I don’tContinueContinue reading “BYOT Revisited: Prayer”

BYOT: The Nature of God

So, once again, I’m revisiting material from class. And I apologize to everyone who has legitimatley studied theology and finds me a bit on the slow side but I’ve never done this before so it’s all new to me. I’m back to something that really bothered me. It was from a questionnaire sent out toContinueContinue reading “BYOT: The Nature of God”

BYOT: Human Nature Revisited

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”

Building Your Own Theology (BYOT): 3: Human Nature and the Nature of God

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”

Building Your Own Theology (BYOT) 2

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”

Building Your Own Theology (BYOT): 1

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”