One Sunday morning, a fellow comes home from attending his Unitarian Universalist church. His spouse, who did not go to church that day, asks, “So, what did you get for a sermon this morning?” The fellow says, “It was shocking, absolutely shocking! I can’t believe our minister would preach about something so shocking.” To which his spouse replies, with a certain amount of interest, “What, did the old bird preach another sermon about sex?” “No, no,” says the fellow disgustedly, “he did his annual sermon about money for the pledge drive.”

A preachy little footnote: Unitarian Universalists give less money as a percentage of income to their faith (1.5%) than any other U.S. denomination except Roman Catholics (1%).