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Someday, I want to be a UCC minister.
My mother was raised Roman Catholic. My father was raised Mormon. I was not raised anything but American. Somehow, I came out the most religious member of my family.
I’m a panentheistic Christian that believes in pluralism!
I am involved in interfaith and intrareligious social justice. I avoid pop culture. My current projects are: reducing my consumption, gradually progressing from pescatarianism to veganism, overcoming bulimia, moving into solely organic eating and primarily organic consumption, completing my B.A. in Comparative Religious Studies, acting as Vice President of SJSU’s Muslim Jewish Christian Coalition, lusting after an M.Div. from Pacific School of Religion, and exploring the Bay Area.
Perhaps I am nothing that one expects when one thinks of a minister. Perhaps this is why I need to be one.
Someday, I will be a UCC minister.
Somehow I haven’t found your name, so, “hello, there!”
I love your blog! I, too, wanted to be an ordained minister. I’m just beginning a blog about my experience with the Episcopal Church at http://holyorders.wordpress.com. I have just graduated from The New Seminary in New York City as an interfaith minister.
I like the notion that we’re all ministers. If you read the catechism of the Episcopal Church, that’s the way all lay members of that denomination are defined. Some ministers–the ordained ones–are designated priest, bishops, and deacons.
I wish you well in your desire to be a UCC minister! I admire that church immensely.
Love your passion and enthusiasm!
Blessings to you!
Gerald Donnelly
your all messed up but Ill pray for you
your blog is interesting. I also write about the God , about spirituality. Nice to meet you. visit me at http://lightofgod.wordpress.com. feel free to comment. your friend!
I just found your blog by searching under religion, and I really like it =) I want to be an ordained minister, someday, too. I am giving a guest sermon at my church on Matthew 5:13, and I was wondering if you could take a few minutes to answer a couple questions for me? I am hoping to get a lot of different answers, the more original the better, to have voiced over during a small slideshow during my sermon.
1. what does it mean to you personally to be “the salt of the earth?” to be “salty”, if you will.
2. what can a person do, or what have you done, to “pass the salt?”
3. if everyone aspired to live a more salty life, and pass the salt to others, what would the world look like?
I really hope you can spare a few minutes to answer these, obviously (by the name of my own blog) this is a HUGE favorite verse of mine =)
thank you in advance!
in God’s grace,
shay
I’m sorry, I don’t think I have the time to give your questions a decent response, but good luck with your sermon!
Hi relsdork,
A panentheist. I have to admit that process theology, as much as I am drawn to it (more emotionally), is not coherent. I am specifically talking about is conflation of immanence and transcendence. In the final instance there must be a moment ex nihlo, I think.
Also, I know you would define yourself ‘Christian’, but wouldn’t you feel more at home as a liberal Quaker or Unitarian Universalist?
No, I am familiar with both Unitarian Universalist and Quaker theologies and am quite at home in my church. Congregational Church of San Mateo. Check out the 5 Guiding Principles. It is a perfect match.
I love your openness. Have you read much about the historical Jesus? I would highly recommend the book: Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, by Marcus Borg.
You’d probably be fascinated by my book, If I gave you God’s phone number….Searching for Spirituality in America. (hope it’s okay to even mention it here – you can learn more at http://www.tocallgod.net) But I did many talks at UU churches across the country. I really appreciated their all-inclusive nature.
ps. found your blog because it appears that we both have the poem “Lost” by David Wagoner on our blogs. Nice… ;~)
pps. my blog is http://marecromwell.wordpress.com/
I’ve not read that particular book by Borg, but I have 3 or 4 of his others. Thanks!
To be a minister the thing you need to learn the most is: How to communicate and not be misunderstood.