UUCOC Conversations » James Luthor Adams http://www.oakcliffuu.org/wp Where Reason is the Partner of Faith Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:21:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2006-2010 conversations@oakcliffuu.org (Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff - Dallas, Texas) conversations@oakcliffuu.org (Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff - Dallas, Texas) Religion - Unitarian Universalism 1440 http://www.oakcliffuu.org/wp/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/uucoc_podcasts144.jpg UUCOC Conversations http://www.oakcliffuu.org/wp 144 144 Our Sunday Services and other special events at the UUCOC Where Reason is the Partner of Faith Unitarian, Universalism, Liberal, Religion Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff - Dallas, Texas Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff - Dallas, Texas conversations@oakcliffuu.org no no Five Smooth Stones http://www.oakcliffuu.org/wp/2009/09/five-smooth-stones/ http://www.oakcliffuu.org/wp/2009/09/five-smooth-stones/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:11:02 +0000 Kimberlyn_crowe http://www.oakcliffuu.org/wp/?p=61 Beginning Sunday, September 20th and continuing through October, Rev. Mark Walz will be sharing homilies on the pillars of Liberal Religion, using the works of theologian James Luther Adams.

You can read his essay “Guiding Principles for a Free Faith” from On Being Human Religiously: Selected Essays in Religion and Society in which he outlines and details “The Five Smooth Stones of Liberalism.”

These tenets were the foundations of the Dwight Brown Leadership Experience sessions in 2009 and can be condensed as:

  1. Revelation is open and continuous
  2. Relationships are consensual and never coerced
  3. It is our responsibility to build a just and loving community
  4. We deny the immaculate conception of virtue: Good things are
    brought about by hard work done by human hands
  5. Resources are available – both human and divine – that can help to
    bring about the changes we seek. These resources are a cause for
    ultimate optimism.
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