{"id":256,"date":"2005-10-03T15:33:51","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T20:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2006-02-12T15:34:32","modified_gmt":"2006-02-12T20:34:32","slug":"why-im-a-unitarian-universalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"“Why I’m a Unitarian Universalist”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Sunday, members and friends of our congregation will lead worship, saying why they are Unitarian Universalists. Wish I weren’t going to be out of town — I’m always fascinated to find out why people are Unitarian Universalists.<\/p>\n

I was doing a little background research on this topic, and came across an essay by Norma Poinsett titled Why I Am a Unitarian Universalist.”<\/a> I have watched Norma Poinsett from a distance for some years, and think she’s one of the most interesting and power-filled Unitarian Universalist lay leaders. I’ve been chewing over the last few lines of her essay, which I find more and more compelling the more I think about them….<\/p>\n

Since it is the only religion I can stand:
\nTo be present is to serve,
\nTo serve is to be an advocate,
\nIn being an advocate of Unitarian Universalism I find an anchor,
\nA life line that gets me from Sunday to Sunday
\nAnd from January to January.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Sunday, members and friends of our congregation will lead worship, saying why they are Unitarian Universalists. Wish I weren’t going to be out of town — I’m always fascinated to find out why people are Unitarian Universalists. I was doing a little background research on this topic, and came across an essay by Norma […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}