Writing about Universalist Christianity and improving how churches work
I mentioned the Esperanto hymnal I just got. Don’t laugh. This means you.
I realized that if you take the translated-from-English hymns in this collection, plus the Consultation on Ecumenical Hymnody’s 150 and you get a really good working set for a moderate to liberal Protestant church. Particularly good since these are mainly in the public domain, which speaks to my “who owns our words of worship” concern.
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There are those time I wonder how I ever ended up among the Unitarian Universalists. Then there are those times I go, “Oh yeah, there’s that . . . .”
The pocket Esperanto hymnal I won on eBay arrived today.
One of my emerging projects is getting my head (and arms) around what might honestly be called “generic Protestant worship.”
This is an off-shoot of the intellectual thread that has occupied me lately, and finds its roots within Universalism at least as far back as the last third of the nineteenth century. How can we be a part of the “one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church”? How can we be deep and broad, while respecting the gifts this tradition has to be, and without becoming (or remaining) sectarian?
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