January 12th is John Hancock Day for American Unitarian Reform, the 6th Day of Defiance on the AUR Winterval Season liturgical calendar. Not only was John Hancock a prominent Unitarian Christian, but he has become iconic in American culture for a single, famous act that has out-shined (or over-shadowed, depending on your point-of-view) everything else [...]
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The 6th Day of Defiance – John Hancock Day
Posted in holidays, tagged christian, declaration of independence, founding father, john hancock, unitarian on 12 January 2011 | Leave a Comment »
John Hancock Day – The 6th Day of Defiance
Posted in holidays, Virtues, tagged christian, declaration of independence, john hancock, unitarian on 11 January 2010 | Leave a Comment »
January 12th is John Hancock Day for American Unitarian Reform, the 6th Day of Defiance on the AUR Interval Season liturgical calendar. Not only was John Hancock a prominent Unitarian, but he has become iconic in American culture for a single, famous act that has out-shined (or over-shadowed, depending on your point-of-view) everything else he [...]
Liturgical Calendar Graphic Added
Posted in holidays, Thursday worship, tagged advent, ascension, carnival, christian, christmas, declaration of independence, easter, holidays, independence day, liturgical calendar, pentecost, thanksgiving, unitarian on 22 December 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A new graphic depicting the American Unitarian Reform liturgical calendar has been added to AUR’s LC page. The chart shows the 10-Day Gap, and the rough dates for the Four Great Thursdays: Harvest (or Thanksgiving) Thursday, Garden (or Gethsemane) Thursday, Ascension Thursday, and Declaration Thursday. Please note, of course, that the seasons from Carnival through Pentecost can vary broadly from [...]
Notional American Unitarian Reform Church No. 5
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged christianity, church sign, declaration of independence, jubilee, july 4th, reform unitarian, Thursday worship, unitarianism on 2 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is the fifth in a series of light-hearted signs for hypothetical American Unitarian Reform churches, created using an online image generator. I hope to show a range of attitudes and ideas all possible within the scope of AUR. The sign for today’s notional church, Unity Christian, announces a “Seven Year Jubilee” for Declaration Thursday. [...]
Declaration Thursday
Posted in holidays, Thursday worship, tagged american revolution, declaration of independence, Thursday worship on 29 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
[originally posted 03 July 2008] AUR celebrates Four Great Thursdays, two for the universal expression of virtue and two for the specifically American expression of virtue. On Garden Thursday, Jesus celebrated a feast with his disciples and, later in the Garden of Gethsemane, recognized the contingent nature of human life by accepting his fate: “If [...]
Thursday Observance
Posted in Thursday worship, tagged america, ascension, christianity, declaration of independence, easter, gethsemane, jesus, sabbath, seventh day adventist, thanksgiving, thursday, unitarian on 5 March 2009 | 2 Comments »
AUR views itself as a particularly American and Unitarian Christian expression of the universal search for Truth. Just as the earliest Christian communities struggled with the question of Saturday or Sunday worship (the outcome of which is disputed even today by Seventh Day Adventists) and Muslims took Friday as their Day of Gathering, the Reform [...]
John Hancock Day – Time to Put Your Name on the Line
Posted in holidays, tagged commitment, confirmation, declaration of independence, inauguration, john hancock, life hack, moral progress, peer pressure, wedding on 12 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today is John Hancock Day for Americian Unitarian Reform, the 6th Day of Defiance on the AUR Interval Season liturgical calendar. Not only was John Hancock a prominent Unitarian, but he has become iconic in American culture for a single, famous act that has outshined (or overshadowed, depending on your point-of-view) everything else he did [...]
