South end Seattle Bubble meetup
This is not an officially sanctioned Seattle Bubble event, but some here have expressed a desire to have a meet up in the south end, and I have been requested to organize it, so...
Sunday, March 15th 11AM,
Columbia City Bakery 4865 Rainier Avenue South, Seattle
The company might not be too stimulating, but the coffee is.
Sunday, March 15th 11AM,
Columbia City Bakery 4865 Rainier Avenue South, Seattle
The company might not be too stimulating, but the coffee is.
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I do like the idea of having meet-ups on week-ends though! It is generally much more feasible that week-days for me.
Actually, my church is pretty open about accepting different beliefs. One of our pastors is an athiest.
We just focus on teaching kids about values of being kind to yourself and others, and to appreciate all the different ways people look at spirituality. The goal is to equip our children so they might be able to find their own paths to enlightenment when they grow up.
I have no problem teaching the kids about Hanukah one week and the winter Solstice the next.
Even children raised by athiests need to learn that there are moral "laws" that we need to abide by in order to be truly happy.
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There may be others, but I know the Unitarians welcome and embrace atheists.
Yup, you nailed it. That's the crowd I hang out with.
I may not agree with everyone else in my congregation on everything, (which isn't that much of a surprise considering how the primary creed is to accept others who have different beliefs), but who else would accept a wacko like me in their midst?
Bubble bloggers?
Sniglet, we'll be sorry to miss you. Good on you for teaching Sunday school. I started a Girl Scout troop for the same reason.
What's that joke Garrison Keillor made about the Unitarians? You know UUs have it in for you when you wake up to find a burning question mark on your front lawn...
I certainly can't speak for all Unitarians, but I can say that there are many Christians in my own congregation (I suspect they are the majority). In fact, my wife is a Christian, and so far no one has attacked her beliefs in the trinity and so on.
Heck, even I wind up telling stories about Jesus in Sunday school (although most Bible stories are left for older kids, not the pre-schoolers).
That said, you will certainly find a wide spectrum of interpretations of Christianity within our congregation. This is NOT like most religions where there is a set dogma about how to interpret the bible, the saviour, or God. I can certainly imagine how an invididual could get carried away spouting off their own personal belief to Sunday school class. I could do that myself, if I wanted to, telling my class that there isn't a God. Instead I try to represent each different belief in a respectful manner. I know that most other Sunday school teachers in my congregation have a similar attitude.
That's an awkward situation to find yourself in, though one could hardly argue that the Unitarians hold the monopoly on hard-lined dogma that other people might find offensive.
One thing I find troubling is our current eagerness and ability to self organize with like minded individuals. Not saying this applies to you, but if I'm a Christian who believes the end times are very near, a Muslim who believes in jihad against all nonbelievers, or an atheist who believes all religious people are saps, then what I really need is to hang out with people who disagree with me or who contradict my disposition.
Ira and I were talking about the establishment of the Columbia City historic district...I found that pic of the young Mike Lowry that I remembered, and Buzz Anderson is in there too:
http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/imlsrvhs&CISOPTR=258&CISOBOX=1&REC=16
The UW digital collection of photographs is really cool!