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I am sorry for your loss. The book "Here if you need me" by Kate Braestrup is a book that really helped me. She is a UU minister who is the chaplain to the Maine Rangers. Her story is intense but her observations on grief particularly on the complicated relationship between religious and secular grief are really important.
This is quite a wild fan fic you have wrote.
It's like I'm reading an excerpt from https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077X12YNG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
I finally finished the Theodore Roosevelt trilogy this week. It took me a couple months, listening during my commute every day to a total of over 75 hours of audiobook goodness.
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt was my favorite. It details his childhood up through his vice presidency. The stories of all he overcame during childhood are inspiring to say the least. It ends with him in his 40s, my age now, and really makes me feel like a slacker.
Theodore Rex, which covers his presidency, was my least favorite. The narration was horrible, the subject matter a bit boring, and there was an annoying glitch where the narrator repeated whole paragraphs. It was so bad I now check the narrator before buying an audiobook. There were some good parts though, and Teddy did do a lot for conservation during his presidency.
Colonel Roosevelt, which covers post presidency, was much better, but sad in many ways. The narrator from The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt returned. Unfortunately, an aging Roosevelt is trying in vain to maintain his youth, but his battered body can’t keep up. Spoiler: he dies in the end.
Throughout the series, I couldn’t help but wonder how, in a little over a hundred years, the politics in this country have changed so much. Democrats did a 180 on minority rights. We went from the GOP giving us Teddy: a conservationist, a politician with integrity, a man of his word—to Donald Trump. In other ways, however, the politics are still the same.
I don't know where the idea that Eklof is in any way saying "you condemn my racial biases, therefore you threaten my freedom"came from, but it is not at all where he is coming from. The stats on UUA hiring I posted elsewhere; to condemn the UUA as white supremacist is to condemn its leadership, which includes a Hispanic President and a black President before him.
Free copy of the book here. Do him the courtesy of reading it before condemning him. https://gofile.io/?c=AguF0k
What city/region do you live? Maybe I can help you search for a congregation most local to you.
A lot of churches seem to only offer the link in their emailed newsletter.
If you're willing to attend any UU church service, you can visit my church. They offer a Zoom link on their website's homepage. uuroc.org
But here is the Zoomlink itself: https://zoom.us/j/131764422 Meeting ID: 758 380 337
We currently meet Sundays at 10 a.m. EST (for the summer. Service will begin at 10:30 a.m. later in September).
For anyone who hasn't heard about Todd Eklof's "The Gadfly Papers", a free download is available at https://libgen.is/search.php?req=Eklof+Gadfly+Papers
A search here on Reddit and Google will reveal the controversy for you...
We use Google Groups, and I have used it for other groups. It gives people who prefer email the option of getting every message or a digest, and replying that way, or people can choose to interact with the website, reading and posting there. Messages can be displayed threaded, you can have tags, and there is spam filtering and moderation, none of which are available in Facebook as far as I know.
We have just expanded our Google Group to include all our regular attendees as well as members. We used it mostly for business and organizational discussions, but will be using it more socially now. We have a Wordpress.com website/blog which cross-posts to our FB and Twitter accounts for service and other announcements, inspirational posts, and other newsletter-type materials.
The Kingdom of God is Within You is a great read if you're looking for a more radical, inclusive take on Christianity!
WTF?
I haven't seen a lot of reporting on Rev. Eklof's banning, but did come across this: "It hinges on his book <em>The Gadfly Papers</em>, which he was distributing for free at the GA. He and his books were removed following a Right Relations process. I’m still waiting for a formal report-out from the General Assembly."
Did he really get removed from GA?! How patently absurd. What the f*ck is going on in our denomination? Since when did "Right Relations" involve censorship & expulsion?
On the other hand, this might be financially beneficial to Rev. Ekloff - I expect I'm not the only one who had to rush off and purchase a copy of his book - to see what the fuss was about. And, surprise, surprise, I found myself agreeing with much of what he has to say about how self-righteous and politically correct so many of our "leaders" have become (to the extent that it's legitimate to think of Unitarian Universalism as having "leaders).
WTF?
I want to second A Chosen Faith as a great general purpose intro to UUism. However, some people feel like the authors are a bit dismissive of nontheists/humanists and pagans. It’s important to remember that UU is extremely decentralized and theologically diverse, so this book is at the end of the day just the opinion of two dudes. Even though these two men were very prominent UUs in leadership, it’s not like other religious organizations where they’re considered to have some special authority (other than the respect they earned through their work).
If you’re coming to UU as a nontheist/humanist, I highly recommend Reason and Reverence: Religious Humanism for the 21st Century. If you’re coming from another faith tradition / religious orientation, the UU publishing house has also recently published a series of books titled “X” Voices in Unitarian Universalism where X = Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, and Pagan (they also have an LGBT one) and I believe they’re still working to add more. I haven’t read them but I’ve heard they’re good.
The theology book club at my local fellowship is discussing “Three Prophets of Religious Liberalism: Channing-Emerson-Parker” by Conrad Wright.
I agree..."worship" is widely understood to imply something that isn't really applicable in a UU context (no matter what the "powers that be" in the UUA say about reclaiming religious terminology).
We can look over every time a Minister says "worship" or refers to "God" or "Jesus" and pretend we didn't hear when he says "prayer" or contort ourselves or define "holy" and "spirit" in a way that does not strike a discord with us...but we would be avoiding the problem, acquiescing to the recent trend of christianization of UUism with our silence. This trend tends to come from the elites in the movement, and especially many key Ministers. You can help by resisting this creeping christianity and help regain the balance that once flourished at the heart of UUism.
I second the suggestion to read "A Chosen Faith"; I started reading it after I began attending, and I love it. Very approachable text, and it helps to give you a sense of history and identity in your new found faith. I would also strongly recommend getting involved with small group ministry when you feel comfortable; this is where the majority of "theological" discussion happens. Religious Education courses are also an excellent resource to connect and learn together.
A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism https://www.amazon.com/dp/0807016179/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_Ur8kvb0TCRM8A https://www.amazon.com/dp/0807016179/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_Ur8kvb0TCRM8A