http://infidelity.blogsome.com Colin Bossen's blog on liberal theology, Unitarian Universalism, politics and culture. Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:43:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am slowly making progress on my Bible study project. I should have my outline of Joshua up tomorrow (it is already finished) and I hope to be done with Judges by the end of the week. Unfortunately, I am still about two months behind with the reading project. The ... http://infidelity.blogsome.com/2009/12/15/rough-outline-of-deuteronomy/ by Rev. Colin Bossen, November 8, 2009 The archeologist William Dever relates the following anecdote about his step-daughter Hannah. One day, when Hannah was about five, she and Dever were discussing theology. Hannah asked her step-father: "Do you know that God is both a man and a woman?" Dever, who ... http://infidelity.blogsome.com/2009/12/12/the-pagan-origins-of-the-bible-sermon/ Preached at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland, December 6, 2009 "Nothing endures but change," wrote the Greek philosopher Heraclitus. These words offer an eternal truth–the world is in constant flux. Each day is slightly different, longer or shorter, than the next. Tomorrow you will be older. Birth will have brought ... http://infidelity.blogsome.com/2009/12/11/trouble-the-waters/ The January sermon in my Bible sermon series is tentatively titled "How Fundamentalists Read the Bible." This is a subject that I do not know a whole lot about and so I am seeking suggested references from a variety of sources. If any of my readers have any I would ... http://infidelity.blogsome.com/2009/12/10/how-fundamentalists-read-the-bible-references/ I actually finished this quite awhile ago and just haven’t had a chance to post it. I hope to have an outline for Deuteronomy up this week as well.  Numbers Outline and Notes — 1:1-54 The census        – 1:1-16 preparation            ... http://infidelity.blogsome.com/2009/12/08/rough-outline-of-numbers/ Today as the Senate prepares to consider health care reform legislation I took the time to write several Senators urging them to support the bill being placed before them. If you have time and support health care reform you might want to use these letters as models for your own.   Dear ... http://infidelity.blogsome.com/2009/11/20/whipping-for-health-care-reform/ Pulpit Editorial given at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland, November 8, 2009   I worked for several years with the indigenous women’s weaver cooperative Jolom Mayaetik in Chiapas, Mexico. The women had self-organized to better find a market for their handmade goods, to support their families and to struggle for justice ... http://infidelity.blogsome.com/2009/11/11/pulpit-editorial-the-anthony-sowell-murders/ For my congregation’s Day of the Dead service on Sunday I am reading a list of Unitarian, Universalist and Unitarian Universalist martyrs. The list includes a number of proto-Unitarians or proto-Universalists. I include these people because they were killed because they held a unitarian or universalist theology. My source for ... http://infidelity.blogsome.com/2009/10/30/unitarian-universalist-and-unitarian-universalist-martyrs/ As someone who was raised Unitaran Universalist but has both Jewish and Protestant ancestors I have always been interested in the intersections between Unitarianism (and now Unitarian Universalism) and various variants of Judaism. While researching something else entirely today I stumbled across a reference to The First American Congress of ... http://infidelity.blogsome.com/2009/10/30/the-first-american-congress-of-liberal-religious-societies/ Preached at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland, October 25, 2009 Over the next decades Greater Cleveland will survive and thrive or struggle and decline as a single entity. Cleveland Heights, Beachwood, Shaker Heights, Lakewood, Lorain, the city of Cleveland itself or any other community in the region will rise or ... http://infidelity.blogsome.com/2009/10/27/beyond-the-burning-river/