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Tell CBS: Don’t air anti-abortion Super Bowl ad

The broadcast networks that air the Super Bowl have historically rejected advocacy ads. Yet CBS, which is airing the Super Bowl this year, has accepted an anti-choice ad by the ultra-conservative group Focus on the Family.

Focus on the Family’s “celebrate life” (read: anti-choice) ad features Heisman Trophy-winning college football star Tim Tebow. And CBS [...]

The ‘Devil’ Responds to Pat Robertson

This letter from ‘Satan’ to Pat Robertson is traveling like wildfire around the Internet – perhaps because he has offended so many people with his latest comments about the tragedy in Haiti. As posted by Lily Coyle to the Minneapolis Star Tribune:

Dear Pat Robertson,

I know that you know that all press is good press, so [...]

Planned Parenthood Urges You to Help Stop Stupak

The following letter came to me from Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood. Many of you probably received it as well, but just in case, I’m putting it here:

The Stupak abortion coverage ban that passed the House of Representatives last month is headed for the Senate right now — and we urgently need your help.

Republican [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

Whether you’re celebrating at home, with friends and family (biological or chosen), or going out somewhere fancy, we wish you a safe, happy holiday weekend.

To celebrate the day, we’re sharing this video from UU Planet:

After you’ve watched it, we hope you’ll come back here to the blog, and share some of the things you’re thankful [...]

Peter Yarrow comes to Dallas

Peter Yarrow will be performing at the Dallas JCC on Tuesday, November 3rd. For more information, including ticket prices, please click the link below, which will take you to the e-flyer.

Peter Yarrow JCC Book Fair

For general information about the JCC Book Fair, follow this link:
JCC Book Fair 2009

350

Those of you who were at church on the 25th heard our choir singing this song – 350 – and learned what it meant: it’s the number of parts per million that is considered the upper safety limit for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and currently we’re at 387.

For more information, visit 350.org.

The [...]

Guest Post from Dr. Janine Talty, D.O., M. P. H.

It was the spring of 1997 and I was treating one of my dearest friends and colleague, after hours in my clinic after a long day of seeing very complicated orthopedic medicine and chronic pain patients. Ron was a 57 year old psychologist who was scheduled the following morning to have a thoracotomy performed [...]

Got Podcast?

Many of you know that our intrepid webmaster, Scott, posts the audio recordings of our Sunday services on the UUCOC website, but if you haven’t looked at the “Listen to our Services” posts, you may not realize the main site is NOT the only way to hear them.

Each week, once Scott has cleaned up the [...]

UU in the Media: Army Wives

It’s been all over sites like UU World, but in case you hadn’t heard, First Unitarian of Charleston was featured in the July 12th episode of the Lifetime TV show Army Wives.

In the episode, a woman about to re-deploy and her husband, a psychiatrist, choose the UU church to host their newborn daughter’s “welcome to [...]