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On Wednesday, September 19, Unitarian Universalist students at the seminary led a "water communion" chapel. In Unitarian churches, water communion is a welcome service that invites members of the congregation to bring water from the places they have been. The water is offered into a common vessel as a sign of the many gifts brought together by the congregation.
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GJ - Wait, there's more.
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Ritual Performance Class
The Ritual Performance and Criticsm (sic) class prepared the chapel for Tuesday, November 13 based on a reading from II Thessalonians 2. The text speaks to the community in Thessalonica expecting the immanent "day of the Lord" a warning not to be deceived or shaken by others. The chapel group used their learnings in our ritual class to imagine many new sounds and actions to embody the feelings of alarm and breaking trust, as well as the comfort that Paul promises in every good work and word.
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GJ - Don't miss the link to the Dalai Lama, on the Union Seminary, New York, blog page.
Does anyone wonder why Union's nickname is The Devil's Playground?
Old YDS joke - A Union Seminary graduate was given a Bible as a prize when he graduated. He began to page through it and became increasingly excited, "Hey, this throws a lot of light on what we've been studying the last three years!"
ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Water Communion
