Available for Services
I am a LGBT+P friendly minister available for the performance of services: marriage, baptism, hand fasting, and so on. For more general information about me check my About Me section.
Background
I am an ordained minister through the Universal Life Church (ULC), and are of the Unitarian Universalist (UU), Centrist, and Secular Humanist persuasions. I attend the Free Congregation of Sauk County (FCSC), which is a UU congregation as well as being the longest running (and in America it is perhaps only remaning) Free Thought Congregation (German) in America.
Lay Worship: An important tradition in the UU/Freethought movements is lay led “worship” or discussion within congregations led by the lay person, and this is powerful and empowering tradition that invites congregational wide discourse and participation via our individual (a)spiritual journeys.
Some Beliefs: I subscribe to evolutionary psychology/biology, evolutionary creationism, secular humanism, sex positivism, as well as, and most importantly, individuals taking responsibility for ones own (a)sprituality. Without a personal inquisition into ones (a)spirituality the responsibility is left to others.
Separation of Chruch and State: is very pertinent to the American socio-political/religious landscape, as well as globalization, and you will see evidence of that in my writing. I am also distinctly critical of the use of religion as a tool for oppression, violence, divisiveness, and maintenance of the status quo. I try to limit this in my writings, but unfortunately these issues are usually pertinent to the topics I am writing about. These feelings do leak through into the attitude of my writings, so please take them with a grain of salt.
Collective Pertinent Writings
Here I will aggregate my collective ministerial musings and writings. Everything found under the Social Activism and Examiner Articles pages and under the Ministry categories should be considered my ministerial writings.
Related Links and References
- Biblical Geology
- Ceremonies and Prayers
- Christianity
- Mr Deity (Video and Humorous Commentary on a personified God through biblical decisions)
- Divine Sex: see sexuality below
- English Bible history
- God is not a Homophobe: An unbiased look at Homosexuality in the Bible (2006) (Book – Amazon)
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Evolutionary Psychology (Wikipedia)
- Evolutionary Psychology Journal
- Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters (Book – Amazon)
- Evolutionary Biology
- Evolutionary Creationism
- Free Thought Movement
- Gnostic Bible (Nag Hammadi)
- Paganism/Wicca
- Wicca: Overview of practices, tools, and rituals @ Religious Tolerance
- Sacred Texts
- Secular Humanism
- Separation of Church and State
- Sexuality
- Divine Sex: Liberating Sex from Religious Tradition (2006) (Book – Amazon)
- Myth of Monogamy, The (Anthropology, book – Amazon)
- Our Whole Lives (OWL): Lifespan Sexuality Curricula (UUA)
- Religious Institute – Faithful Voices on Sexuality and Religion
- Planned Parenthood
- Sex Info (Department of Sociology, University of Santa Barbara, California)
- Historical Sexual Oppression
- Sexuality, Sacred or Prostitution, Sacred
- Unitarian Universalism
- Free Congregation of Sauk County – a Free Thought (German) and Unitarian Universalist Congregation
- Rev. Deb Haffner (UU Minister and Sexologist)
- BLog for Ravenstone’s Reflections (Desmond Ravenstone, a Unitarian Universalist lay leader, writer and educator)
- Unitarian Universalism (Wikipedia)
- Unitarian Universalism Association
- Universal Life Church
Thursday, 14. January 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18388-anxious-or-sexually-competitive-try-god.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news