Posts by ziggy

Bah'ai My best friend in Middle School and her family were Bah'ai Christian--Protestant All but one of the girls in the bible study group I go to Christian--Catholic The family I used to nanny for, and one of the girls at Bible...

I've gotten pretty involved. There aren't any small ministry groups but there are talks of starting some. And I do know some of the members really well. I generally get along with folks, I just feel like I'm in SUCH a different life...

I got a couple of friends to try it once, but they made it pretty clear that they were going for me, not because they wanted to explore other religions. I go every week and have been for about four months. I really enjoy it, and I'm...

Well, we live in Maine, so the white people thing is kind of a given. I mean, the fact that our minister is half-Indian is really about as diverse as we get. But the age thing is really, really hard for me. Maine is old. Maine is...

Some days I really really wish there was anybody else near my age in our congregation. I'm the youngest person there who isn't brought my their parents. There's a couple teenagers, a few in the under 7 set, and a 3 month old. Our...

My UU Minister, who is very much not Christian, signs most things "blessed be" or "blessings."

I recently joined my congregation - I joined relatively quickly after first going to the church, only because the congregation is small and they don't offer new membership classes very often (this is the first one in over a year, from...

Our offering went to the UUSC, too. And the sermon was amazing - it was the MLK day sermon, but she spliced it with talking about Haiti and, I dunno, it just rocked.

I became a member of my congregation this morning. The service was really moving. I just love the love and acceptance from the congregation and minister and just everyone.

Due to the dozens of untreated ear infections I had as a child I have minor hearing loss. I'm lucky it wasn't worse, but antibiotics could have prevented it entirely,