\u201cWho are Unitarian Universalists?\u201d someone asked a friend who attended a recent UU service.<\/p>\n
\u201cGot me,\u201d she replied, \u201cafter the service they stood around the coffee table discussing last night\u2019s movie and next fall’s election; reviewing the morning sermon, designing tomorrow\u2019s education, and worrying about the next century\u2019s oceans.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey seem to enjoy celebrating the gift of life, mixing humor with philosophical discussion, and addressing our community\u2019s needs with concerned action, while they nibble chocolates and sign petitions.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne person mentioned the movie, \u2018Oh God!\u2019 in which George Burns, playing the title role, was asked, \u2018Was Jesus your son?\u2019\u00a0 George replied, \u2018Of course, Jesus was my son,\u2019 puffed on his cigar, and added, \u2018But so were Confucius, the Buddha, Mohammed…and lots of others who didn\u2019t get such good publicity.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cSeems UUs don\u2019t go in for hero-worshipping.\u00a0 The minister closed his service with, \u2018We ask these things in the names of all<\/em> those, known and unknown, remembered and forgotten, who lived and died as true servants of humankind. Amen.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cHis point was that greatness in spirit and deeds isn\u2019t the sole possession of ancient exemplars or famous faith leaders. UUs value everyone who hopes to live, as Lincoln said, “with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cWho are Unitarian Universalists?\u201d someone asked a friend who attended a recent UU service. \u201cGot me,\u201d she replied, \u201cafter the service they stood around the coffee table discussing last night\u2019s movie and next fall’s election; reviewing the morning sermon, designing tomorrow\u2019s education, and worrying about the next century\u2019s oceans. \u201cThey seem to enjoy celebrating the … Continue reading Who are We? [#5]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5606"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8767,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions\/8767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}