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Rev. Kate Rohde, Minister Emerita. Live stream and In-person. When the Unitarians merged with the Universalists in the 60’s we called ourselves “Liberal Religion” and our Youth Group was called LRY — Liberal Religious Youth. As time went on people began to think that our use of the word ‘Liberal’ was a political designation, but … Continue reading The “L” Word: Is Liberalism Dying?
Rev. Kate Rohde. Live-Stream. In “The Wife of Jonah“, a first person account from Jonah’s wife on the real story of the prophet, Author Barbara Rohde imagined a woman’s perspective on Jaweh, his prophet, and her part in bringing forth God’s transformations. The monologue will be performed by her daughter, Rev. Kate Rohde, as the … Continue reading The Wife of Jonah
Rev. Kate Rohde. Live-stream. This sermon is based on a metaphor from August Wilson’s great play, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Set in the African American Experience, Wilson — one of the 20th century’s best American playwrights — used the particular experiences of African Americans to help us all get at universal questions. Kate Rodhe … Continue reading Singing Your Song
Rev. Kate Rohde. Live-stream here. Jesus taught spiritual liberation, but the religion founded in his name became a tool for repression and murder in many places in the centuries that succeeded him. Revolutionaries become dictators and autocrats. The oppressed too often oppress. Some reflections on that theme in today’s world. Kate is UCWC’s Minister Emerita glad to be … Continue reading Liberation or Domination: How Not to Become the People We Struggle Against
WHY UU’s AND OTHER LIBERALS ARE HARD TO UNDERSTAND One of the foremost social scientists working on the social psychology of values discovered that people who are more traditionally progressive and those who are more traditionally conservative have two major values in common, but conservatives have additional values that compete with the two that progressives … Continue reading Are We Too “WEIRD”?
American Unitarianism and Universalism were founded based in many of the Enlightenment ideals which partially informed the foundational ideals of many of our country’s early philosophical documents. Throughout our history we tended to view our country as working to be a better embodiment of the best of those ideals. Today our Democracy and our Democratic … Continue reading Restoring the Broken Covenant: Rescuing our Democratic Faith
Ironically, lots of people who mark “white” on forms that ask for our race, don’t often think about what that means. However, in our conversations on race, what does having the mythical status made real “white” mean? What has it meant in the past? Are we better off to be able to mark our race … Continue reading Is It Good to Be White?
