Today is the feast of St. Lucian, the first of the 12 Days of Defiance which begin the Winterval Season. Lucian was the teacher of both St. Arius and St. Eusebius, the bishop who baptized Constantine, finally Christianizing the Emperor after a lifetime of religious ambiguity. St. Lucian was also the subject of a Notional Reform Unitarian Church [...]
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First Day of Defiance – St. Lucian’s Day
Posted in holidays, tagged 12 days of defiance, arianism, arius, christian, constantine, st. lucian, trinitarianism, unitarian on 7 January 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Celibacy, Catholic Sex Crimes, and Trinitarianism
Posted in teachings, tagged arianism, catholic sex scandal, celibacy, christianity, council of constantinople, council of nicaea, doctrine of the trinity, edict of thessalonica, emperor constantine, emperor theodosius, hosius of cordoba, jesus christ, pedophilia, pope benedict, pope john paul ii, roman catholic, sexual abuse, trinitarianism, trinity, unitarianism on 29 March 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Reform Unitarianism feels a particularly close kinship with the Roman Catholic Church, despite that it is the institution that adopted the apostasy of Trinitarianism. Roman Catholicism retains the sense of the ancient pedigree of Christianity, which more recent off-shoots (which nevertheless imagine themselves reformatory) fail to project. This is why it pains us to witness [...]
Notional American Unitarian Reform Church No. 8
Posted in teachings, tagged arianism, arius, catholics, christian, church, isaac newton, trinitarian, unitarianism on 1 February 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is the eighth in a series of light-hearted signs for hypothetical American Unitarian Reform churches, created using an online image generator. We hope to show a range of attitudes and ideas all possible within the scope of AUR. The sign for today’s notional church, St. Arius of Africa, presents an interesting take on the [...]
Spear King Day
Posted in holidays, tagged arianism, genseric, pope leo, sack of rome, trinitarian, unitarian, vandals on 25 January 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Genseric, meaning Spear King, leader of the much-maligned Vandals, was one of the last Unitarian Christian leaders in the ancient world. Why AUR would want to celebrate the life of a man who sacked Rome, persecuted other Christians, and whose people gave us the word “vandalize”? The bad reputation of Genseric and his Vandals is [...]
St. Lucian’s Day
Posted in holidays, tagged arianism, christian, martyr, religious persecution, st. lucian, trinitarian, unitarian on 7 January 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today is the first of the 12 Days of Defiance that begin the Winterval Season, the feast day of St. Lucian. Lucian was the teacher of both St. Arius and St. Eusebius, the bishop who baptized Constantine, finally Christianizing the Emperor after a lifetime of religious ambiguity. He was also the subject of a Notional [...]
