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'UU World' announces Boston internship program.

Ric Masten, UU 'troubadour,' dies at 78.

More from Paul Rasor on 'prophetic nonviolence.'

UUA, UUSC raise funds for Burmese cyclone victims.

Latest updates to my Guide to UU Blogs.

Guide to Unitarian Universalist blogs.

Do you have a Unitarian Universalist blog?

My favorite time of the year.

YRUU's transformation continues.

Kinja to pull plug on UU Blogs Digest next week.

Harvard Div School names first Emerson UUA professor.

Watch 'Actions of Immediate Witness' hatch online.

This week in Unitarian Universalist contrarianism.

New book on Joseph Priestley focus of UUHS event.

John Sidney McCain, the man from Old.

Recommended re: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama.

Last call for the Guide to UU Blogs.

One-stop shop for your UU video fix.

Get the early scoop on new ministerial settlements.

UUA Board meets in Boston, April 18-20.

Anticipating the arrival of the Philocritot.

Obama's speech on race: 'A more perfect union.'

Andrew Sullivan on Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright.

This week at uuworld.org: UUA presidential race.

American nationalism collides with black liberation theology.

June 24-25 meeting will plan C*UUYAN's future.

John and Abigail Adams get the HBO treatment.

This week at uuworld.org: Sunday schools past.

Dungeons and Dragons, geek culture, and me.

Lesley Univ to share Episcopal Div School campus.

Responsive resolutions: Spontaneous plenary business.

This week at uuworld.org: Raising committed UUs.

Privacy policy.

Survey: 0.3 percent of adults are Unitarian Universalists.

This week at uuworld.org: UU prayer; YRUU's future.

Baptism is more than signing a membership book.

Obamania, or a civic religion revival?

Overlooked Unitarian U.S. presidents in the media.

Spring issue of UU World now available.

This week at uuworld.org: C*UUYAN's funding cut.

Sinkford: Continental YRUU will be replaced.

Limits of Unitarian Universalist congregationalism.

Sinkford asks for patience on youth, young adult changes.

YRUU, C*UUYAN funding decisions not entirely clear.

This week at uuworld.org: Love, Kenya, Appalachia.

Cast your vote in the UU Blog Awards.

'Rise Up Singing,' UU-style, in the New York Times.

African Unitarians meet with international UU leaders.

UUA trustee from New York boycotts General Assembly.

This week at uuworld.org: UU theology of peace.

Barack Obama, poetry set to music.

On Super Tuesday, I'm voting for Barack Obama.

Philocrites in the pulpit Feb. 10, Jamaica Plain.

Which candidate will Superbowl victory parade hurt?

Mormon prophet Gordon B. Hinckley dies at 97.

UUA Board reaffirms Ft Lauderdale as G.A. site.

This week at uuworld.org: Prison film, 'Survivor' gift.

Political typography watch: Praise for Obama, McCain.

My favorite Philocrites posts of 2007.

This week at uuworld.org: History of whites-only towns.

Laurel Hallman, Peter Morales run for UUA presidency.

UU Ministers Assoc. moves events from G.A. center.

It's time for the annual UU blog awards.

This week at uuworld.org: Kate Braestrup, Assoc Sunday.

UUA Board meets in Boston, January 18-20.

Announcing the Philocrites winter hiatus.

This week at uuworld.org: Merry Christmas!

GOP and Democratic candidates on executive power.

More about ID checks at 2008 UUA General Assembly.

'American Transcendentalism' watch: More reviews.

This week at uuworld.org: G.A. concerns; what's sacred?

Next year's General Assembly brouhaha today!

Boston Globe, New York Times dig out.

Happy birthday, Frederic Henry Hedge!

This week at uuworld.org: Mike Gravel's religion.

Obituaries of extraordinary Unitarian Universalists.

Romney's pluralism tolerates all conservative religions.

Philo's hiatus won't stop the Mitt Romney links.

This week at uuworld.org: Psalm for exiles.

This week at uuworld.org: What is evil?

'American Transcendentalism' watch: Globe review.

Doug Muder's interpretive key to Episcopal schism.

Latest updates to my Guide to UU Blogs.

Fanfare for the common Facebook page.

How to have a Puritan Thanksgiving.

This week at uuworld.org: Fred Small tries 'The Secret.'

'American Transcendentalism' watch: Early reviews.

Christine Robinson reports on Consultation on Growth.

Liberal religion scholarship at the AAR in San Diego.

Happy birthday, James Luther Adams!

This week at uuworld.org: Rod Serling's Unitarianism.

Update: Congressional hearing on magazine postage hike.

Want a role in reshaping UUA General Assembly?

P.T. Barnum, 'prince of humbugs' - and Universalist.

Beliefnet launches new Unitarian Universalist forum.

Meet the author of 'American Transcendentalism.'

High school autocrat of the month.

Guide to Cambridge city elections.

This week at uuworld.org: America's founding faiths.

Winter 'UU World' in the mail, now online.

Scenes from a duck boat parade.

This week at uuworld.org: Haiku as spiritual practice.

Congressional hearing on magazine postage hike Tues.

My experiment with Creative Commons licensing.

'When you mix religion and politics, you get politics.'

Second UUA 'Time' ad introduces online outreach.

UUA trustees with blogs comment on board meeting.

California fires displace UUs in San Diego area.

This week at uuworld.org: Start a church from scratch.

I'll be sleepy Wednesday night, too.

On Harvard's 'nondenominational' origins.

100 years of social gospel Christianity.

Hymns in the news: Harvard introduces new hymnal.

Former UUA Moderator Natalie Gulbrandsen has died.

This week at uuworld.org: Universalist circuit rider.

UUA Directory is now available online.

This week at uuworld.org: Pete Stark's humanism.

Resources on the Burmese democracy movement.

UU prison ministry responds to fed. prison book purge.

UUA film 'Voices of a Liberal Faith' now online.

This week at uuworld.org: Meet Carolyn McDade.

Got a great idea for the 2008 UUA General Assembly?

Beacon Press launches 'Beacon Broadside' blog.

UUA Board meets in Boston, October 20-21.

UU Council of Christian Churches meets October 21.

News about UUA, Bay Area marketing campaigns.

Buddhist monks lead popular uprising in Burma.

Response of the Episcopal bishops to primates' demands.

This week at uuworld.org: Neglecting theology.

Share your views with Panel on Theological Education.

Guardian's religion reporter says farewell, faith shaken.

Mitt Romney's battle-hardened sons.

Unitarian books not approved for prison libraries.

End of redheads? Or Nat'l Geographic's good sense?

Sojourners calls for letters about prison book purge.

Unfinished weekend reading.

This week at uuworld.org: Going with the flow no more!

Imagine your own UUA marketing campaign.

UUA announces national marketing campaign.

Fed. prisons purge religious books not on approved list.

AAR events: Unitarian Universalist theology in context.

UU minister co-blogs the 'Lucifer Effect.'

This week at uuworld.org: Church volunteer burnout.

Moxie Life launches online UU book group.

Hear me now or hear me later.

Harvard update on Emerson UUA professorship.

Responses to 'Liberal religion and the working class.'

This week at uuworld.org: UUism and the working class.

This week at uuworld.org: All parents teach religion.

What does 'liberal, welcoming' mean at your church?

Mark Lilla, William T. Cavanaugh on religious violence.

This week at uuworld.org: A loved one fades away.

Gosh darnit, did the Globe forget Romney's Mormon?

Relaxing up one side and down the other in Utah.

Philocrites in the pulpit: Aug. 19 and Sep. 9.

This week at uuworld.org: The Web and liberal religion.

Bay Area UUs buy ads on 'Daily Show,' 'Colbert Report.'

Pacific Central District's $250 YouTube ad contest.

Galloping toward the Philocrites summer hiatus.

This week at uuworld.org: Church on Wednesday.

Isaac Newton's anti-Trinitarianism in the news.

Hehir, former HDS dean, now Archdiocese's policy advisor.

Should I blame Burger King or The Simpsons?

Pastoral problem: Minister dies after wedding rehearsal.

This week at uuworld.org: Love the contradictions.

Turned away from a General Assembly event?

The uterus factor with Bill O'Reilly.

Hitchens: UUs 'don't give me enough to disagree with.'

This week at uuworld.org: Stem cells, carbon offsets.

The Times ordains a porn star to the priesthood.

This week at uuworld.org: Your life story.

Step right up to the discussion of UU polyamory.

One more try with my Guide to UU blogs.

A joke about liberal religious sectarianism.

This week at uuworld.org: Fireworks, GA, and affiliates.

Trouble-shooting my Guide to UU blogs.

Having trouble with my Guide to UU blogs?

Eric Parkman Smith, Concord's Concordian.

UU Christian 'Revival' features John Dominic Crossan.

This week at uuworld.org: Seminaries' funding cut.

General Assembly handout: Blogging for beginners.

General Assembly via the blogs.

This week at uuworld.org: Practicing hospitality.

Massachusetts kills amendment to ban gay marriage.

UUA Board meets in Portland, June 19 and 25.

Philocrites takes the mic at General Assembly.

Saturday, noon: Boston-area UU bloggers picnic.

Massachusetts may be stingy, but its rich give more.

This week at uuworld.org: Steps toward diversity.

Who in the UUA decides what congregations want?

Harvey Cox on Brazilian Protestants and democracy.

Christian Century on Barack Obama's church.

This week at uuworld.org: Meet the new humanism.

Brown bag landmines, culling the affiliates, and more.

This week at uuworld.org: Liberalizing the graveyard.

Gary Dorrien: When imperial powers won't plan their exit.

Tithing, Meadville Lombard's plan, and better websites.

Announcing the new and improved guide to UU blogs.

This week at uuworld.org: The UU in the lotus.

Guide to UU blogs.

Uh oh, here come the Unitarians and Universalists!

Summer issue of UU World now online, in the mail.

Update: Boston-area UU bloggers picnic, June 16.

This week at uuworld.org: Don't be stingy.

An entire week celebrating UU earnestness...

More spring photos: Swans return to the Public Garden.

Tagging resources for the UUA General Assembly.

Carbon credits, for-benefit corporations, and pre-nups.

This week at uuworld.org: Seven Principles playground.

What's the Unitarian Universalist/Esalen connection?

A bit of springtime photography.

How much traffic does your UU blog get?

Dine with other bloggers at Portland General Assembly.

Help me update my Guide to UU blogs.

This week at uuworld.org: JLA's 'fascist' prophecy.

This week at uuworld.org: Go on an energy diet.

Urgent: Postal rate hike will harm small magazines.

Church as upper-middle-class lifestyle accessory.

This week at uuworld.org: Love and membership.

Proposed: Boston-area UU blogger picnic, May 19.

Rumor: Only one candidate for UUA president in '09?

UUA Board meets in Boston next weekend.

Add uuworld.org headlines to your site.

Philocrites, now non-mission essential!

This week at uuworld.org: Personal Jesus.

Hymn: The rising sun.

Despair, resurrection, and religious liberalism.

Captain John Smith's journal entry about baseball.

This week at uuworld.org: Help for anxious parents.

This week at uuwhirled: Celebrating Jesus' birth.

Time for the third annual Boston UU blog picnic?

Harvard's 'New Humanism' conference, April 20-22.

Dick Cheney, safe in the arms of the Mormons?

This week at uuworld.org: Power to the churches.

UUBlogs-PR: The new publicity email list for UU bloggers.

This week at uuworld.org: How about that weather?

National Assoc. of Evangelicals condemns U.S. torture.

Fellow UU bloggers, interested in press releases?

Breaking news: Minns Lectures start tomorrow!

Tuesday at Harvard: Harvey Cox on James Luther Adams.

This week at uuworld.org: Five-year-old theologians.

New UUA.org will go live Monday, April 2.

Video-sharing to promote Unitarian Universalism.

This week at uuworld.org: What's for dinner?

Philip Rieff on charisma, culture, and prophecy.

This week at uuworld.org: What are you afraid of?

Harvey Cox: James Luther Adams, Evangelical?

This week at uuworld.org: Spirit of Second Life.

Boston Globe front page: Beauty Tips for Ministers.

This week at uuworld.org: Our theological center.

Globe marks death of 99-year-old Unitarian radical.

Also at uuworld.org: Board of Trustees report.

New denominational blogs and websites.

This week at uuworld.org: Adoption's complications.

A few noteworthy new Unitarian Universalist blogs.

On growing quieter.

Moments in emboldenment.

A winter's view from my office window.

Vote in the third annual UU Blog Awards.

This week at uuworld.org: Finding a talisman.

The president is not my commander in chief.

'Every Bible is the flawed work of human hands.'

Weeklong radio series on UU Gulf Coast relief.

This week at uuworld.org: New religious humanism.

Nine moments of academic Schadenfreude.

Nominations open for third annual UU blog awards.

This week at uuworld.org: Environmentalist churches.

Why I will join the antiwar protesters.

Educating kings for the twenty-first century.

What a lovely spring we're having in Boston.

Time for the third annual UU Blog Awards?

This week at uuworld.org: Persistent Universalists.

UUA Board meets in Boston January 19-21.

Boston Globe blogs Deval Patrick's interfaith service.

This week at uuworld.org: Stick your neck out.

My favorite blog posts of 2006.

My ten most-visited blog entries of 2006.

This week at uuworld.org: Mayhem and the manger.

'Tis the season to be syncretists.

Christmas Eve: A great night for Jewish singles!

Important conversation on UU advocacy.

Some UU approaches to 'contemporary worship.'

Remembering Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006).

Ancient Unitarian silver in the news.

This week at uuworld.org: Santa and James Fowler.

Taize comes to Montreal, April 27-29, 2007.

Starring Unitarians as open-minded Christians.

Moral ambiguity in 'Left Behind' videogame.

Is Church 2.0 better or just more digital?

This week at uuworld.org: Partners in the Gulf.

Looking high and low for influential UUs.

Philocrites in the pulpit: King's Chapel, Dec. 13.

Boston University forum on the conflict in Darfur.

Favorite Christmas CDs.

This week at uuworld.org: The power of stories.

Open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

A few resources for World AIDS Day.

Dick Cheney's imperial presidency.

Five questions about me.

This week at uuworld.org: Use words to heal.

Wednesday: Richardson on new William James bio.

PeaceBang: Barbara Brown Taylor's 'Leaving Church.'

From bleacher to pew and back again.

History Channel's engrossing Pilgrim docudrama.

This week at uuworld.org: Pilgrims' progress.

My name is Philocrites and I love LEGO.

Unitarian Universalists in 'Second Life' video game.

What is a person? John wants to know.

This week at uuworld.org: DIY fortune cookies.

I've updated my Guide to UU Blogs.

Constitutional convention ends; no gay marriage vote.

Mass. gay marriage ban on legislative agenda today.

Building interfaith bridges of homophobia.

How did Unitarian Universalist candidates fare?

After you vote, check in.

This week at uuworld.org: William Schulz on torture.

David Kuo's credulous Evangelicalism.

Introducing a search engine for UU blogs.

This week at uuworld.org: Black Unitarian inventor.

Peter Gomes: Why I am no longer a Republican.

Mass. diocese tables resolution opting out of marriage.

Seeking musicians, singers for NYC Taize service.

YouTube: Purple alien promotes 7 Principles.

Revive with UU Christians in New York City.

This week at uuworld.org: Pentagon Papers at 35.

Episcopal diocese: Get married by someone else.

Romney's quasi-official Mormon outreach initiative.

UUA Board meets in Boston this weekend.

Did 'Get Religion' go off the air?

My G.O.P. generation, er, graduating class.

Down by the rivers of Babylon.

This week at uuworld.org: Mom vs. tattoo.

Keeping up with our friends, the former UUs.

Big church-state stories in the Globe and NYTimes.

Rev. Hank's straight-edge, hardcore roots.

This week at uuworld.org: Lappe on democracy.

Theological question a reporter should ask Romney.

'Eyes on the Prize' returns to TV tonight.

This week at uuworld.org: The SUV song and Ramadan.

The UU gospel according to Fausto.

UUA, UCC leaders to discuss 'growing solidarity.'

Toward a 'pneumatological' liberal church.

Noah, the ark, and 'salvation by elimination.'

Theocrats are coming, theocrats are coming! Right?

This week at uuworld.org: The sin of perfectionism.

Jim Wallis, Bob Edgar join the blogosphere.

This week at uuworld.org: Sexuality education.

Brother Roger's communion with the bishop of Rome.

Uh oh, it's salvation by hermeneutics.

Parallel universe work places.

Why New Orleans flooded and rebuilding stalled.

This week at uuworld.org: Five years after 9/11.

The plight of the Unitarian Republican.

This week at uuworld.org: The end of secularism?

Hedge's 'Reason in Religion' and other classics online.

Religious politics in Ohio; PowerPoint in worship.

This week at uuworld.org: Hope in New Orleans.

Wanna put together a GA program about blogging?

Hey! Give me back my planet-finder!

Taize's new prior talks about Brother Roger's legacy.

Camp brings Christian, Jewish, Muslim teens together.

Grass-roots ad campaign for Unitarian Universalism.

This week at uuworld.org: Summer religious ed.

A vacation in Pentecost: A sermon about Taize.

It's time to update my Guide to UU blogs.

A few jazz recommendations.

Philocrites in the pulpit.

This week at uuworld.org: General Assembly reviewed.

Jesus' parables: A retreat with Carl Scovel.

Boston's historic Old West Church vandalized.

Ned Lamont and Corliss Lamont.

Philocrites takes a Web sabbatical.

This week at uuworld.org: Resist reasonable atrocity.

Goodridges, plaintiffs in gay marriage case, have split.

Democracy is on the march. So is God.

Read 'The Lively Tradition.' That is all.

This week at uuworld.org: Sinkford on worship.

Religion magazines worth knowing about.

My political blog roll.

My religion blog roll.

Arts and culture magazines worth knowing about.

Political magazines worth knowing about.

Progressive Faith Blog Con in the news.

Getting ready for the Progressive Faith Blog Con.

Happy anniversary to me and Mrs P!

Pick a blog tool for your church or nonprofit.

This week at uuworld.org: Love from the start.

Coming to you live, from Nauvoo, Illinois.

Tom Stites on the future of journalism.

This week at uuworld.org: Jefferson and Adams.

Liberal theology's ambiguous future.

Scattered thoughts on a divided spiritual identity.

How I understand 'God language.'

UU bloggers at the General Assembly.

'Poetry' laugh attack.

Worst clergy name ever.

Unauthorized mass email from philocrites.com.

Smallest GA workshop in UUA history?

This week at uuworld.org: Mary Oliver.

Doug Muder dreams of Coffee Hour 2.0.

Everything you ever wanted to know about UU blogs.

This week at uuworld.org: Meet the GA blog.

Episcopal Church elects woman bishop as new leader.

No simple way to keep up with G.A. blogs.

Blogging the UUA General Assembly.

This week at uuworld.org: One Muslim's odyssey.

Nothing like a carnival to get us organized!

The season of church picnics is upon me.

Mrs Philocrites at 'Beauty Tips for Ministers.'

This week at uuworld.org: Heroes' dilemma.

Unitarian Universalists in Mass.'s ten cultural regions.

Two cheers for conservative liberals.

Is it time for 'UU Voice' to abandon paper?

Sophia Peabody Hawthorne in the news.

Dick Cheney's omnipotent hand.

A few notes on visiting Rockport.

This week at uuworld.org: Immigration.

Catholic lay empowerment in hospital shakeup story.

Unitarian Universalist roll call for Yearly Kos?

'Eyes on the Prize' will return to television.

UUA announces G.A. reception for bloggers.

Happy birthday, Waldo! HDS names a chair for you.

Now serving spam, I'm very sorry to say.

This week at uuworld.org: Music and AIDS in Africa.

Forgiving girl inspires businessmen's generosity.

Jon Carroll talks to UUs about Unitarian Jihad.

International symposium on UU theology in July.

UU 'Da Vinci' watch: Dogma bites soundbite.

Around the UU blogs, with G.A. dining news!

Why don't we call them Ford Venezuelas?

Cast your umbrellas away! The storm is past.

This week at uuworld.org: Mary Magdalene.

Better rain than snow?

Undecided about Foer's 'New Republic.'

Come rain or heavy rain, picnic is today!

Can you hear me now, Mr President?

Photographs: Springtime in Massachusetts.

Thursday diversion: Fictional Unitarian Universalists.

First month of the UU Blogs ad campaign.

Second annual UU bloggers picnic, May 13.

This week at uuworld.org: The other mother's day.

There's something in the water.

The SUV song encore.

Devastating consequences of Catholic condom ban.

Bush and Colbert, Lear and the Fool.

In which Philocrites shows up on UCC.org.

Help protect marriage equality in Massachusetts.

This week at uuworld.org: History of the Principles.

Bush never met a law he couldn't sign. And ignore.

Philocrites in the pulpit.

Inherent goodness got you down?

Want a banner to promote Unitarian Universalism?

Who are your theological influences?

This week at uuworld.org.

My first podcast.

How the UU Blogs promotional campaign is going.

Diverse Unitarian Universalist Easters.