Yet Another Unitarian Universalist
A postmodern heretic's spiritual journey.
Possum, Packrat, and Dr. Sharpie — er, Queen Sharpie — present photos from UUCPA kids showing their stuffies in Halloween costumes. Whose costume is best? Queen Sharpie has an answer…. (Updated version of the video, with three more stuffie costumes.)
Complete text of the video is below the fold….
Continue reading “Possum presents: Halloween costumes for stuffies”The next installment of the Prometheus myth:
As usual, full script is below.
Continue reading “Prometheus, part two”William R. Jones, UU theologian and one-time religious educator, pointed out may years ago that the myth of Prometheus serves as a useful counter to the myth of Adam and Eve. For Adam and Eve, rebellion is sinful; for Prometheus, “a response of rebellion is soteriologically authentic.” Although Jones considers the Prometheus myth to be important for humanists, I think Prometheus is important for anyone who is an existentialist — which means almost every Unitarian Universalist today, whether they are humanist existentialists, Christian existentialists, pagan existentialists, Buddhist existentialists,….
That means the myth of Prometheus should be an integral part of Unitarian Universalist religious education for kids. Here’s one attempt to make that happen, as several ordinary people go back in time to relive the myth o Prometheus:
Full script is below….
Continue reading “Prometheus, part one”Possum and his friends act out the Sumsumara-Jataka (no. 208):
Full script is below the fold….
Continue reading “Jataka tale: The Monkey and the Crocodile”The final installment of the “Possum Feel Stressed” series of videos:
As usual, full script is below….
Continue reading “Possum feels stressed, conclusion”The fourth installment in this video series:
Full text of the script is below….
Continue reading “Possum is working on reducing his stress”In the third installment of the Possum Feels Stressed video series, Possum learns about prayer as a spiritual practice (even though he doesn’t believe in God):
The first poem mentioned in the video is by Edward Everett Hale, a Unitarian minister:
I am only one.
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything.
But still I can do something.
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
The second poem mentioned in the video is by Universalist poet Edwin Markham:
Outwitted
They drew a circle that shut me out —
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took them in.
Full script for the video is below….
Continue reading “Possum is still stressed…”The second video in the Possum Feels Stressed series. Mindfulness meditation didn’t work out as a stress-reliever for Possum, and in this episode he and his friend Nanas the monkey try yoga…
The script is below, for those who like that sort of thing. Be warned, it got changed a bit in performance and editing.
Continue reading “Possum feels stressed, part two”The first installment in the Possum series of videos:
The fourth and final installment of the Contestants on a Game Show! series:
