Unitarian Universalist Association Blues

 

 UUA minister Tom Eklof has recently alienated members by questioning their direction - article in Financial Times.

The Unitarians and the Universalists were separate groups for a time. The Unitarians are clearly the most radical Leftists, who started with denying the Trinity and ended with denying God. The Universalists are more conservative, using Christian hymns but emphasizing everyone is saved - like the Waltherian LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic).

The two groups united in 1961 and grew even more dogmatic, if one can use that term for such freedom loving people. My aunt was Unitarian and she thought my future as a Lutheran pastor was wonderful. I was invited twice to speak at UUA congregations. "You can teach anything you want and bring your organist for the hymns," my neighbor told me. I declined both offers. One of my members in Columbus talked to me about her past as a Unitarian. "We believed in God and morals. The Unitarians are completely different now."

As a group, the UUA is tiny (150,000 members) and growing smaller, highly educated with very high incomes. They are tearing each other apart now, a gathering of intolerant Leftists. 

Slightly to the right of the UUA are the 

• United Church of Christ, 
• various Calvinist groups, and 
• The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Instead of the Left becoming more conservative, the remaining denominations have become more UUA, more divisive, increasingly moribund. The so-called Lutherans imagine they can revive themselves by renting Church Growth songs of dubious value, hoping to slow down their decline. 

Decades ago, the LCMS, WELS, ELS, and CLC (sic) began rejecting the King James Version, traditional hymns, and the historic liturgy. 

If you can find a Lutheran congregation using the KJV, let me know.