Holiday Party at Joan VB's House

Host:	Joan Van Becelaere
Location:	Joan's House 460 22nd Street, Denver, CO View Map
When:	Friday, December 22, 7:00pm
Phone:	303-641-5896
Come join Iliff students, alums and area UU clergy for wine, cheese, assorted finger foods, conversation and holiday cheer. Spouses/partners are welcome!!

Anderson Cooper: What is a Christian? Part Six

This is a spot done by Anderson Cooper on CNN on All Souls in Washington D.C. Great coverage.

IUUSA get together at the Stones

Please plan on attending the IUUSA get together at the home of Joe and Laura Stone on Friday, Nov. 10 in Thornton between 6:30 and 7:00pm.

This is going to be a very casual affair so come as you are and if you would like to bring finger foods or wine or whatever that's great but please don't feel obligated. Feel free to bring spouses, kids, dogs, bunnies or what have you. Everyone is welcome. My 3 and 4 year old would love the company. We have plenty of kid friendly movies and a basement for them to destroy.

This is an opportunity for everyone to get together in the same place and enjoy each other in an off campus, celebrative atmosphere, talk about our liberal religion, of course the impending or possibly just passed midterm elections and how we want to be represented and recognized at Iliff and in the community at large.

Directions to the Stone's house

Thank God for Fair Trade

Come on. This is funny. Chutney is another UU Blog to bookmark. One of my favorites.

Iliff Avenue Conference

To get the conversations started......

My hope is for this blog to foster conversation and debate about the evolving state of Unitarian Universalism at Iliff. The Berry Street Conference started by William Ellery Channing in 1820 is the oldest lecture series on the North American continent. It's purpose was to contribute to the practical strength of liberal ministries. It still takes place after each annual national conference of the UUMA. Think of this blog as a way to for us to contribute to the practical strength of our current and future liberal ministries.

I encourage everyone to add their own content, whether in the form of essays or musings. To start our dialogue, here is an original essay from one of the Berry Street conferences.

What do we mean when we talk about Liberal Religion? As UUs, do we consider ourselves to be Post Christian? Edward Cahill adressed the 1974 UUMA.

When I speak, then, of liberal religion I am speaking of a movement which exhibits the following characteristics, to paraphrase Earl Morse Wilber: the exercise of the free use of reason in an open atmosphere of mutual respect. The difference between traditional orthodox Christianity and the liberal in religion is not in the content of belief but first in the source of belief, second in the method, and third in the attitude with which the belief is held. The orthodox Christian holds his beliefs with a dogmatic inflexibility. The liberal in religion holds his beliefs subject to further testing and the discovery or acquisition of new knowledge.
-Read the full essay here

Checking In

Hello folks, and hope that you are well!

My partner, Virginia, and I desire your prayers and good thoughts.

Her father passed last week, and we are making preparations for the memorial service.

He was a Disciples of Christ minister, and was a true inspiration to me.

For our holy union at the Gay Pride Parade in Oklahoma City, he read the love chapter (I Cor. 13) for us.

We will miss him dearly.

Peace & blessings! Denise

The Iliff School of Theology, bordering the University of Denver campus in Denver, Colorado has a long and storied history and is considered one of the preeminent liberal seminaries in the United States. Unitarian Universalists have been a consistent presense within Iliff for decades and are a continuing force in shaping the schools identity as an institution dedicated to justice and peace activism and GLBT equality and recognition. Iliff has generated scores of Unitarian Universalist clergy and leaders over the years and has become seminal in the growth of Unitarian Universalim in the Rocky Mountains and beyond.

UU seminarians at Iliff have determined that it is long past due that we have official representation and recognition, so 2006 has been deemed the inaugural year of the IUUSA or Iliff Unitarian Universalist Student Association. In brief, the IUUSA is dedicated to identifying and growing the UU presense at Iliff and encorporating an organizational structure that helps to accomodate current and future students. The IUUSA is also dedicated to making Iliff a premier institutuion for the development of leadership and growth in Unitarian Universalism. We believe in the limitless opportunties for Unitarian Universalism to become the obvious alternative for seekers of liberal religious choice. There will be much more to come.............

Inaugural Post

This is the inaugural post of the IUUSA, Iliff Unitarian Universalist Student Assocation!!! More to come!