First Day of Defiance – St. Lucian’s Day

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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We Forgive You, Saint Nick

The birth of Jesus Christ may be the “reason for the season,” but for millions of children the man of the moment is Santa Claus. While it is widely known that the Santa Claus of Christmas is derived from St. Nicholas, few know much about the original Saint Nick beyond the fact that he did [...]

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Lucifer’s Day

Today is the first of the 12 Days of Thorns, during which we contemplate the tragic errors of the past.  This dozenal opens the Spring Interval, also called the Rose Season. The first Day of Thorns is Lucifer’s Day, marking the anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea in which the Josiac error of conflating [...]

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Notional American Unitarian Reform Church No. 8

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 [...]

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Why Unitarianism Matters

Theology Matters In an age when the philosophical undercurrents of theology are considered by most believers to be largely irrelevant to the practical concerns of social and political action, when many would say the only thing that matters in religion is “being a good person,” the questions debated in the earliest centuries of the church [...]

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