tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post8112972549431514009..comments2023-11-03T06:26:00.486-07:00Comments on Ms. Kitty's Saloon and Road Show: Universalism Got a Hold On MeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-11343033578036990062010-06-10T13:25:27.136-07:002010-06-10T13:25:27.136-07:00Thanks, EBS. As I look back over the years since ...Thanks, EBS. As I look back over the years since I joined UUism in 1976, I am amazed and pleased by how much more universalistic (?) we have become as a denomination.Lilylouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02328027965155428624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-55559498339365071392010-06-10T12:50:11.577-07:002010-06-10T12:50:11.577-07:00Yes! Love, love, love. While I don't call my...Yes! Love, love, love. While I don't call myself a Christian, I can't deny that "Amazing Grace" is still one of my favorite hymns. I interned in a historically Universalist congregation (which now calls itself Unitarian Universalist), and it had an entirely different ambience than the historically Unitarian congregations I've been part of or worked in.Earthbound Spirithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14042611502142798184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-74613052157958607312010-06-07T18:20:26.240-07:002010-06-07T18:20:26.240-07:00Thanks, Fausto. You add another dimension.Thanks, Fausto. You add another dimension.Lilylouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02328027965155428624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-21334512519772980332010-06-07T13:27:45.183-07:002010-06-07T13:27:45.183-07:00I think you're selling the Unitarian side of t...I think you're selling the Unitarian side of the house a little bit short. Baptist polity and "soul conscience" historically come from the exact same place that Unitarians (and Congregationalists) get their devotion to self-governance and emphsis on the personal responsibility of discerning truth: the covenant of the Independent church gathered in the 1590's in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. That church lasted only a few years and its original covenant is lost, but it generated two daughters that adapted the same or very similar ones. One moved to Holland and became the first Baptist church; while the other crossed the Atlantic with the Pilgrims, became Unitarian in 1800, and still survives today as the First Parish Church (UU) in Plymouth, Mass. As Gov. Winslow of Plymouth recalled their pastor John Robinson telling the Pilgrims before they embarked, "the Lord had more truth and light yet to break forth out of his holy word. ... Here also he put us in mind of our church covenant, at least that part of it whereby we promise and covenant with God and one with another, to receive whatsoever light or truth shall be made known to us ... but withal exhorted us to take heed what we received for truth. ... For, saith he, it is not possible ... that full perfection of knowledge should break forth at once."faustohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08858053354116695746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-223813102858602482010-06-05T21:18:12.417-07:002010-06-05T21:18:12.417-07:00Thanks to both of you for your kind words. I'...Thanks to both of you for your kind words. I'm glad to be able to share truth with you.Lilylouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02328027965155428624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-84689655805618076382010-06-05T19:39:58.093-07:002010-06-05T19:39:58.093-07:00This speaks so directly to me. Thank you.This speaks so directly to me. Thank you.DairyStateDadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09100373589936758473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-56021901847889817402010-06-05T19:24:25.655-07:002010-06-05T19:24:25.655-07:00Yes, yes, yes, yes!
Now I can skip this month&#...Yes, yes, yes, yes! <br /><br />Now I can skip this month's question, or just send in "What Ms. Kitty said!"<br /><br />And the last three paragraphs had me hooting aloud in happy agreement. May have to print this out and stick it above my desk.<br /><br />THANK YOU!Nancy DreUUhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03376121468178298880noreply@blogger.com