{"id":11166,"date":"2023-12-20T22:29:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T03:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=11166"},"modified":"2023-12-20T22:30:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T03:30:13","slug":"what-exvangelicals-do-instead-of-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/12\/what-exvangelicals-do-instead-of-church\/","title":{"rendered":"What exvangelicals do instead of church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2023\/12\/20\/church-for-nones-meet-the-anti-dogma-spiritual-collectives-emerging-across-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Exvangelicals are forming &#8220;spiritual collectives&#8221;<\/a> \u2014 which have superficial resemblance to Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregations, because they&#8217;re LGBTQ+ friendly, open to non-Christian sources of wisdom, and don&#8217;t have doctrines or dogmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are also big differences. Exvangelical spiritual collectives have a different worship style. Their preachers are more likely to do their preaching (which they may call teaching) wearing a dark polo shirt and khakis \u2014 while most UU ministers wear stoles and robes while preaching. Exvangelical spiritual collectives are still evolving rapidly. They describe themselves as &#8220;experimental&#8221; \u2014 while I don&#8217;t hear many UU congregations talking about being experimental. Exvangelical worship services remain close to their evangelical roots. Their liturgies and governance still look like low-church evanglicalism\u2014 while most UU liturgies and governance practices are much closer to mainline Protestantism. As for age demographics, there are a lot more young adults in photos of these exvangelical groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In spite of the obvious differences, I&#8217;d love to sit down with people from these spiritual collectives and learn more about them. How are we UUs different from them? How are we the same?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exvangelicals are forming &#8220;spiritual collectives&#8221; \u2014 which have superficial resemblance to Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregations, because they&#8217;re LGBTQ+ friendly, open to non-Christian sources of wisdom, and don&#8217;t have doctrines or dogmas. There are also big differences. Exvangelical spiritual collectives have a different worship style. Their preachers are more likely to do their preaching (which they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/12\/what-exvangelicals-do-instead-of-church\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What exvangelicals do instead of church&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[895],"class_list":["post-11166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-people-places","category-religious-institutions","tag-exvangelical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11167,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166\/revisions\/11167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}