Today is St. Lucia’s Day, the first of the 12 Days of Light honoring the Star of Bethlehem. Tonight we light up the decorations! But, today is also a good time to reflect on the importance of Christmas.
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The Enlightened Truth about Christmas
Posted in holidays, idiom, tagged christianity, christmas, decorations, ecumenism, nativity, parable, protestant, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, st. lucia, star of bethlehem, syncretism, three magi, unitarian, zeitgeist on 13 December 2010 | Leave a Comment »
12th Day of Thanksgiving – Harvest Thursday
Posted in holidays, idiom, Thursday worship, tagged christian, christianity, harvest, idolatry, jesus christ, pilgrims, religion, thanksgiving, unitarian, wampanoag on 25 November 2010 | 1 Comment »
Thanksgiving is often recognized as an inter-cultural holiday, celebrating the cooperation of European Pilgrims and Native Americans, but it is also an interfaith holiday. After all the Wampanoag were not Christian. For American Reform Unitarians* the interfaith nature of Thanksgiving actually reinforces its Christian importance, for we see Christianity not as a religion defined against [...]
The First Day of Thanksgiving – Diversity Sunday
Posted in holidays, tagged christianity, diversity, harvest, thanksgiving, unitarianism on 14 November 2010 | Leave a Comment »
REPOSTED FROM 2009 Today is the first of the Twelve Days of Thanksgiving: Diversity Sunday! While Diversity Sunday may not be as important as Remembrance Thursday or Harvest Thursday itself, this introduction to the celebration is vital to the full vision of Thanksgiving, as we remember that good things come to our lives through meetings. [...]
Lucifer’s Day
Posted in holidays, teachings, tagged arius, athanasius, christianity, council of nicaea, god the father, jesus christ, josiah, logos, lucifer, monotheism, nicene creed, trinity on 20 May 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
A Day of Faith and Confidence
Posted in holidays, Thursday worship, tagged ascension, christianity, easter, faith, unitarian on 29 April 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today is Loyal Thursday, the 4th Thursday after Easter and the Ultimate Thursday of the 12 Days of Trust, the second dozenal of the Ascension Season. The 12 Days of Trust are a celebration of the clear-minded virtue of Faith (πίστις in Greek, fidelis in Latin), and Loyal Thursday is a day to feast in [...]
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 [...]
Palm Sunday and Religious Idiom
Posted in holidays, idiom, teachings, Thursday worship, tagged christianity, jesus of nazareth, palm sunday, unitarian on 25 March 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Palm Sunday commemorates the day Jesus entered Jerusalem on the back of a colt (or donkey) with throngs of Messianic enthusiasts paving the way with palm fronds. Celebrations of this holiday therefore often include palms. In some regions, however, this tropical plant has historically been difficult to acquire, particularly when shipping methods were still primitive [...]
Martin Luther King Jr. – American Prophet
Posted in idiom, teachings, Virtues, tagged christianity, gandhi, martin luther king jr., monotheism, moral law, unitarianism on 18 January 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It is quite appropriate that the (actual) birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. falls on the 9th Day of Defiance in the AUR calendar, in the middle of Nika Week commemorating when competing factions stood together against oppression in the Byzantine Empire, just as multiracial crowds gathered before Dr. King stood together against Jim Crow [...]
The Importance of Christmas
Posted in holidays, teachings, tagged adoration of the magi, christianity, christmas, christmas decorations, jesus, nativity, origen, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, st. lucy, star of bethlehem, tertullian, three wise men, unitarian, yuletide on 13 December 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today is St. Lucia’s Day, the first of the 12 Days of Light honoring the Star of Bethlehem. Time to put up the lit decorations! But, also a good time to reflect on the importance of Christmas. A celebration of the Nativity was never a foregone conclusion in Christianity. Tertullian’s list of major holidays among [...]
