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My Hoodie

Who knew that hoodies had such massive symbolic weight? This item of clothing has been in the news since the killing of Trayvon Martin and the comment by Geraldo that the hoodie was just as m... [read more]

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Rev. Christine Robinson

On Welcome

There's an interesting article in the UU World this month, about beliefs that UU's don't tend to have. You can find it here. But the editor was apparently confused by the first... [read more]

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Rev. Christine Robinson

Psalms P.S.

I'm twittering the Psalms, these days, and invite those interested to follow me on Twitter @rev CRobinson. [read more]

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Rev. Christine Robinson

Praying with Your Iphone

(an article written for Journey, The Journal of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Scranton, PA)When I was a very little girl, Igathered…I’m sure nobody taught me this…tha... [read more]

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Rev. Christine Robinson

Psalms and the Small World

Years and years ago, when i Minister was just learning how to blog. she was experimenting with blogs and, needing a body already written short works to populate her blog with, used some adaptations... [read more]

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Rev. Christine Robinson

What's a Unitarian Universalists

1. Technically, a Unitarian Universalist is a person who is a formal member of a UU congregation. 2. Popularly, a Unitarian Universalist is anybody who calls themselves a UU, whether or not they be... [read more]

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Rev. Christine Robinson

3 of 4 UU's Don't Belong to Congregations. Why?

Of course, it is technically true that all UU's belong to UU congregations, because technically, there is no way to be a UU unless you belong to a congregation. But don't tell the peop... [read more]

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Rev. Christine Robinson

Congregations and Beyond

Peter Morales' paper, Congregations and Beyond (found here) raises some interesting issues for UU's and other religious people, especially those in small denominations and those... [read more]

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Rev. Christine Robinson

Counting the Audience

*This is one of several responses to UUA president Peter Morales' white paper on congregations, which can be found here:There's a theory of congregations that says that each congregation has thre... [read more]

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Rev. Christine Robinson

Contemporary Worship

Some of us at First U Albuquerque have set ourselves to really figuring out what contemporary worship is all about. Since the churches which feature this new religious art form tend to be big... [read more]

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Rev. Christine Robinson

Facebook: A Time Sink?

A ministerial friend was complaining lately about the time it can take to wade through the dross of Facebook posts to get to the good stuff. Most of this post is a re-post of my tips on this ... [read more]

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Rev. Christine Robinson

Radical Growth Idea for UU's

Begin Rant:Let's quit privileging the practice of closing churches for the Summer. This idea, which comes to us straight out of the pre-air conditioned centuries past, has it that it is ... [read more]

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Rev. Christine Robinson

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Rev. Christine Robinson

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Rev. Christine Robinson

Breaking Up With God

· The Author of the book by this title, Sarah Sentilles, talks about a story which was left out of her book: · The founder of Architecture for... [read more]

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Rev. Christine Robinson

GA2012

OK, so I'm not, fundamentally, a pep rally type person. Not for sports. .. I'd rather play. Not at GA, either; I'd rather be talking to people, helping out, learning new things. ... [read more]

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Rev. Christine Robinson

Theological Grounding

Another question from the Staff. (second to the last! ) How can we ever satisfactorily respond to a call for more theological groundingwith all of our diversity? I have spent the past se... [read more]

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Rev. Christine Robinson

UU's and the Bible

To clarify the previous post (found here: Most of the conversation about the Bble is in the comments. I say that "post-denominationalism" applies to the social trend in which Or... [read more]

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Rev. Christine Robinson

The Post-Denominational World

Another interesting question from the UUA staff:Are we entering a “post-denominational” world? What does that mean for ourfaith as it relates to our Association? It seems to me that our current... [read more]

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Rev. Christine Robinson

And why can't we convert people to UU?

Two more questions from the UUA Staff's Strategic plan for Ministry Why aren’t we able to convert more religiously defined “none of the aboves” to Unitarian Universalism? and... [read more]

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Rev. Christine Robinson

More on Congregational Diversity

Here's another question from the UUA Staff, appended to their strategic plan for ministry. Given that we operate within a system of congregational polity, how might wehelp the lay leadership... [read more]

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Rev. Christine Robinson

Learning into a Multi-Cultural UU World

Another question posed by the UUA staff in their strategic plan for ministry was this: What can we learn from our community ministers about living into the promise of our multicultu... [read more]

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Rev. Christine Robinson

Ministry and Internet

Another question from the UUA Staff's Strategic Plan for Ministry What are the implications of social networking for the future of our bricks and mortar ministries? As Philip Clayton put it i... [read more]

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Rev. Christine Robinson

Ministerial Credentialing: from the UUA Staff Strategic Plan

The UUA Staff's strategic plan for Ministry (posted here) makes one recommendation about ministerial credentialing, which is a creature of the Fellowship Committee which, by bylaw, reports to the ... [read more]

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Rev. Christine Robinson