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25Apr, 2014

God Made Earth, but Now There are Two?

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Our Earth is an incredible thing. It took just the right set of circumstances to enable this world to form and support life. It is not out of the question, however, for there to be other planets like ours. In fact, NASA’s Kepler mission recently discovered an Ea…

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13Nov, 2013

Minister Training: Perform a Funeral

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Being asked to perform a funeral is an honor and a challenge, but something that is likely to happen if you chose to get ordained in the Universal Life Church. The time immediately after a death is one of the most emotionally-charged times a family or community wil…

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25Oct, 2013

Interfaith Minister Training: All Saints Day

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The exact origin of All Saints Day is unclear, since different places in the east and west along with pagans all had their own specific traditions. When one gets ordained as an interfaith minister of the Universal Life Church it can be beneficial to look at some of…

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26Aug, 2013

Beheading John the Baptist Again

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A man lives out in the wilderness. He survives on a diet of bugs and honey. He fashions his clothes out of the hair of animals and claims to speak the word of God. By any standards, we might consider this man to be crazy, but this is a description of Saint John the…

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10Jun, 2013

Interfaith Minister Training: Lailat al Miraj

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As an interfaith minister in the Universal Life Church, it’s important to have a basic fluency in the holidays and traditions of the major world religions. Such fluency is necessary to fulfill the Universal Life Church’s mission of providing spiritual s…

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24May, 2013

Interfaith Celebrations from Shavuot to Pentecost

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It is a time-honored practice for one religion to “borrow” practices from another in order to make their practice more palatable to practitioners of said religion. This may be for purposes of conversion or interfaith relations or simply because one grou…

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10May, 2013

Denominations: Unitarian Universalism

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This is the first in a new series of interfaith minister training to introduce readers to different religious denominations. Many of our ministers are interested in attaining at least a general understanding of the differences in people’s beliefs and this ser…

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