The Transient and Permanent in Liberal Religion: Reflections from the UUMA Convocation on MinistryDan O'Neal, Alice Blair Wesley, James Ishmael Ford |
Contents
The Covenant of Spiritual Freedom | 17 |
Congregational Polity and the Covenant | 29 |
Theodore Parker Speaks | 39 |
The Passionate Enduring Center | 55 |
The Lotus in the West | 65 |
Four Spiritualities | 79 |
Saved By a Song | 91 |
Our Children Ask for Bread | 101 |
Liberating Religious Individualism | 177 |
Ecology and the Future | 195 |
A Theology for Phenomenal Women | 209 |
In Generations to Come | 225 |
From the Earth to the Moon | 237 |
What Has Been Kept | 279 |
After the Apocalypse | 299 |
Born of Woman Born of Earth | 323 |
Rethinking Childrens Religious Education | 127 |
Can a Prophet Chair the Board? | 147 |
The New Three Rs | 161 |
Afterword | 351 |
About the Contributors | 369 |
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