Philocrites : Religion, liberalism, and culture https://philocrites.com Commentary by Chris Walton Tue, 06 May 2025 01:43:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://philocrites.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-Philocrites-Site-Icon-2-32x32.png Philocrites https://philocrites.com 32 32 On being received https://philocrites.com/2025/05/05/on-being-received/ Tue, 06 May 2025 01:43:14 +0000 https://philocrites.com/?p=9698 Every social phenomenon that’s important to me is flawed, contingent, and disappointing. But they are also renewable, beautiful, and empowering.

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]]> Patriot’s day https://philocrites.com/2025/04/17/patriots-day/ Fri, 18 Apr 2025 01:25:01 +0000 https://philocrites.com/?p=9693 We rebelled against a king who claimed the authority to transport us “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences.”

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]]> The time to speak up is now https://philocrites.com/2025/03/31/the-time-to-speak-up-is-now/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 02:43:47 +0000 https://philocrites.com/?p=9685 One person is responsible for all of this turmoil.

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]]> The Unitarian Universalist congregation’s fragile ecosystem https://philocrites.com/2021/11/10/the-fragile-ecosystem-of-the-uu-congregation/ Thu, 11 Nov 2021 03:49:08 +0000 https://philocrites.com/wp/?p=7752 The social ecosystems of our churches are at risk at the local community level, at the congregational level, and at the denominational level.

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]]> Concluding my professional service to UU organizations https://philocrites.com/2021/08/09/concluding-my-professional-service-to-uu-organizations/ Mon, 09 Aug 2021 21:09:51 +0000 https://philocrites.com/wp/?p=7744 Stepping down as editor of UU World magazine marks the end of 25 years of professional service to Unitarian Universalist communities.

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]]> The long afterlife of a blog https://philocrites.com/2019/07/15/the-long-afterlife-of-a-blog/ Mon, 15 Jul 2019 21:09:19 +0000 https://philocrites.com/wp/?p=7827 Philocrites finds its way into bibliographies and footnotes.

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]]> Dean: Northern evangelist. https://philocrites.com/2003/12/01/dean-northern-evangelist/ Mon, 01 Dec 2003 23:24:59 +0000 https://philocrites.com/archives/537.html ‘Dean’s rhetoric — like his campaign structure — is deeply grounded in the social practices of a branch of radical Protestantism whose tenets still wield power in the structures of Vermont’s government.’

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]]> Traffic report. https://philocrites.com/2003/11/30/traffic-report/ Mon, 01 Dec 2003 04:06:37 +0000 https://philocrites.com/archives/536.html We zoomed through November with 6402 visits and 2912 unique visitors. (In October, those numbers — which I’ve now figured out how to extract from my host — were 5426 visits and 2753 unique visitors.) Thank you, everybody — and I especially appreciate your comments. People are still inexplicably drawn to my essays about Max […]

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]]> Calling. https://philocrites.com/2003/11/30/calling/ Sun, 30 Nov 2003 21:27:55 +0000 https://philocrites.com/archives/535.html ‘What I worship cleaves the rock and makes the rain and melts the snow. It is a god of transformation…’

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]]> Spouse and spouse? https://philocrites.com/2003/11/30/spouse-and-spouse/ Sun, 30 Nov 2003 20:32:01 +0000 https://philocrites.com/archives/534.html I don’t think we’re going to get very far by taking gender out of marriage entirely, or by discounting the differences between one form of partnership and another.

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