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“Ewe-Ewes” and the Word “Church”

May 19, 2007 on 8:30 pm | In Unitarian Universalism |

Philocrites is a totally cool customer in situations where I start foaming at the mouth, pontificating and opining. That’s why I like to hang out with him at conferences: I get very depressed about our glaring hypocrisies and scary ideological intensity and want to scream, and he’s just blogging away in his Oxford shirt, cool as a cuke. Every now and then he’ll glance up and say something incredibly smart and also scathingly funny that calms me right down. Sometimes it’s about denominational issues but sometimes it’s just about breakfast, like the time last year in St. Louis he somberly regarded the enormous glass of juice in front of him and said, “Seven oranges gave their lives for this.”

So you should probably listen to him talk about this issue, and not me.

Read the comments, too. They’re really thoughtful, informative and good. You’ll be impressed.