Re: Fragility and tendentiousness

From: Steve Petermann (steve@spetermann.org)
Date: Fri Sep 19 2003 - 15:21:37 EDT

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    Sarah wrote:
    > I'm having a hard time figuring out what the problems
    > at Steve's UU church have to do with Christianity.

    This is not my church but I have friends there. Their problems are not what
    I was trying to point out. The "problem" for Christianity is this steady
    flow of "former" Christians into the UU environment. Why are they?

    Steve Petermann

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Sarah Berel-Harrop" <sec@hal-pc.org>
    To: <asa@calvin.edu>
    Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 10:27 AM
    Subject: Re: Fragility and tendentiousness

    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Josh Bembenek" <jbembe@hotmail.com>
    > To: <steve@spetermann.org>; <asa@calvin.edu>
    > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 9:25 AM
    > Subject: Re: Fragility and tendentiousness
    >
    >
    > > Steve-
    > >
    > > I have a hard time understanding the process that your local UU church
    > > experiences with the loss of its intelligensia. Perhaps they are
    teaching
    > > something other than the gospel at a "universalist" church, which folks
    > can
    > > see through and wish to abandon.
    >
    > I'm having a hard time figuring out what the problems
    > at Steve's UU church have to do with Christianity.
    >
    > Although there is a countable minority (say maybe 10%)
    > of UU's who would identify themselves as Christian -
    > note, many of those may not hold a trinitarian belief
    > system - what's happening at a UU church would have
    > *nothing* to do with people's thought processes via-a-vis
    > *Christianity*.
    >
    >
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