http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog Religion and spirituality from a Unitarian Universalist perspective Fri, 09 May 2008 03:48:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi friends, It's time for me to take a vacation from Looking for Faith for a few weeks. This winter and spring have been very exciting; I've had the chance to work on a number of rewarding and worthwhile professional and volunteer projects, including this blog. But I'm starting to ... http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2008/blogcation I saw this short film recently and found it to be a sweet reverse-creation story:  http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2008/remaking-the-world tracks the discussion among Unitarian Universalist bloggers about whether and how our movement should engage with popular culture, highlights a post about the difficulty of teaching the hymns in our current UU hymnals, and points to an analysis of the Youth and Young Adult Empowerment Resolution on this summer's General ... http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2008/this-weeks-interdependent-web-6 Hi UU readers and bloggers, please excuse the dreadful pun (I swear, it was an accident!) and share your Twitter-related wisdom. Do you use Twitter to promote your Unitarian Universalist blog and/or to follow other Unitarian Universalist blogs or tweets? What tips do you have for UU's about making the most ... http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2008/twitter-is-it-working-for-uus As you might have guessed from the glowing description of my church's ministerial candidate and of our first worship experience with him, we voted last Sunday to call our new minister! I was antsy the whole morning. After the morning worship, followed by a short coffee hour, followed by about an ... http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2008/religion-without-ritual ...at the UUWorld's Interdependent Web! http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2008/food-ethics-a-sons-addiction-and-more I've been observing Passover (Pesach) for about the last four years, and while there is a lot about the related traditions that I don't know, each year I have the chance to learn a little more. Shai and I celebrated last night at a local shul, the same one we ... http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2008/happy-pesach ...covers different responses from UU bloggers to the new UUA ad, points to Hafidha Sofia's wonderful reflection on spending time with her grandmother, and highlights other notable posts from the UU blogosphere. http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2008/this-weeks-interdependent-web-5 In the wake of Barack Obama's "bitter" comment, there's been a related and more interesting discussion about how the candidates express empathy for the struggles of Americans who backgrounds differ from themselves. In particular the focus seems to be on empathizing with Americans who are low-income and rural. Stephen Colbert of ... http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2008/we-dont-have-to-fake-it I have a small confession: during this church year, I have not been regularly attending services at my home congregation. I've dropped in a handful of times during the year. I've been visiting other congregations, both in Boston and in other places when I travel. And some mornings I've just ... http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2008/the-big-c