{"id":7583,"date":"2010-09-06T17:48:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T00:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7583"},"modified":"2010-09-06T17:48:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T00:48:20","slug":"this-includes-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7583","title":{"rendered":"This includes us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re an anti-Christian Unitarian Universalist, hold on for a bit, because this post applies to you, too. In an essay in the most recent <em>Christian Century<\/em> magazine, the Christian theologian Douglas John Hall writes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember a conversation early in the 1970s in which a small group of clergy in the city where I lived were discussing the question, &#8220;On the pattern of Revelation chapters 2 and 3, what do you think ought to be the &#8216;message of the Spirit&#8217; to the churches of <em>this<\/em> city?&#8221; I found myself answering this question almost without knowing what I said: &#8216;The Spirit writes to the churches of North America: Disestablish yourselves!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m afraid my words fell on the ears of my hearers as though I had been speaking in tongues. But I continued to pursue that theme in many lectures and a whole series of books on the future I envisaged, with the help of many others, for a Christian movement that had seriously tried to disentangle itself from the ethos and assumptions of the imperial peoples of the West, with their explicit or implicit racism, ethnocentrisms, militarism, and ideologies of power&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So says Donald Hall. And the same thing applies to the Unitarian Universalist movement: we need to disentangle ourselves from the ethos and assumptions of the ruling powers of the United States, to disestablish ourselves (actually, in our case, part of the task is finally to understand how little political influence we actually have, and to re-conceptualize ourselves on that basis).<\/p>\n<p>Discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re an anti-Christian Unitarian Universalist, hold on for a bit, because this post applies to you, too. In an essay in the most recent Christian Century magazine, the Christian theologian Douglas John Hall writes: &#8220;I remember a conversation early in the 1970s in which a small group of clergy in the city where I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583","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=7583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7584,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583\/revisions\/7584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}