tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9075388423619128040.post8052376181889273111..comments2023-12-18T00:42:35.441-05:00Comments on Where's My Plan?: Communing With WaterSherckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15365366144078711301noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9075388423619128040.post-29695445281708459772011-09-29T19:40:26.167-04:002011-09-29T19:40:26.167-04:00We say,
Love is the doctrine of this church and s...We say, <br />Love is the doctrine of this church and service is its prayer. To dwell together in peace, to seek knowledge in freedom, to serve humanity in fellowship, thus do we covenant.Sarahhttp://www.journalscape.com/rhubarb/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9075388423619128040.post-44306894881901127042011-09-16T11:57:49.695-04:002011-09-16T11:57:49.695-04:00Thanks. In a way, I suppose that's the spirit ...Thanks. In a way, I suppose that's the spirit in which I was offering it, from my own little virtual pulpit. :)<br /><br />The church does have a covenant that they recite each Sunday--everyone forms a circle around the room, we hold hands, and say (I had to look it up): "Love is the spirit of this church and service is its law. To dwell together in peace, to seek the truth in love, and to help one another; this is our covenant."<br /><br />Lauren and I visited a couple times over the summer, and those services were lay-led. And the church has a new minister, so she was new to everyone else almost as much as she was to us. She's serving in an interim capacity, for two years.Sherckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15365366144078711301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9075388423619128040.post-88449063893693841902011-09-16T11:32:27.101-04:002011-09-16T11:32:27.101-04:00If your church ever has a lay-led water communion ...If your church ever has a lay-led water communion service, what you have written would make a very good sermon/homily/talk.Sarahhttp://www.journalscape.com/rhubarb/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9075388423619128040.post-19013175922806122412011-09-15T15:57:35.565-04:002011-09-15T15:57:35.565-04:00We UUs start the church year every year with the W...We UUs start the church year every year with the Water Communion, united by oceans, lakes, streams, pools, tears of water, throughout our lives. We're not highly bound to rituals, but this is one, I think, that speaks to all of us. We set it up so that even the smallest children can participate before they go off to their RE classes.<br /><br />"Religiosity" is abhorrent to me, but I find myself comfortable with being a Unitarian Universalist, a faith of covenant, not creed. Does your church have a covenant you recite every Sunday? I've often wondered what UU services were like outside of southern California.Sarahhttp://www.journalscape.com/rhubarb/noreply@blogger.com