Archive for December, 2011

Online Clergy Ordination

Hello, all! Upon reading the newsletter, I found the request about how my ordination came about. I wasn’t hit by a lightning bolt or called through a vision, but when a chaplain friend of mine sent me a very profound email, it made think for a moment of all that I had been blessed with, without even a thought to
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Comparative Religion

The discipline of comparative religion is a field that studies the practice and evolution of religion. There is little emphasis placed on the personal practice of religion, nor is there any pressure to follow a particular religion. I must say that this is one of the finest courses offered by the ULC Seminary and I would very highly recommend it
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Wedding Stories

Funny Couple By Rev. Amy Long I had a funny wedding this weekend. As I waited for the groom and the best man to walk down the aisle, I was chatting with the bride at a distance. When it seemed enough time had passed, I walked down the aisle as well. When I got there, there was no groom or
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Universal Life Church

By Queen Mother – Constance Ekon Excerpt from Angels Cometh Chapter 6 The Angelic Path “If we had made it an Angel, we should have sent him as a man”. Quran: Sura VI – Verse 9 Through our history most religions have professed a particular belief in Angels as messengers or servants of God. Many Angels have come to us
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Shamanism

My name is Beverly Brown and I am in week 10 of the Dr. of Shamanistic Theology Course. I applaud the way you wrote this course…Thank You! After my experience(s) with a fatal illness that the doctors could not cure, I overcame it via natural herbs and nontraditional treatments. This made me hungry for more knowledge of God’s gift of
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Four Gospels

By Rev. Neal McLaughlin John 1:14 The word became flesh and his dwelling upon us. We as people need to communicate with one another through verbalization, gestures of the hands and face or in some form of communication. Unless we demonstrate who we are, what we believe, how we live and the talents of which we are blessed no one
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The Life of St. Paul

Michael S. Barth The Life of Saint Paul Final Essay             After going through this course about the Life of Saint Paul, I am truly amazed at what he had to put up with when he was spreading the news about the Life of Jesus Christ.  I had no idea about the amount of geography that Paul had to cover
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Universal Life Church

Dinner with Jesus By Unknown – Submitted by Mara Fonseca There is a beautiful story about a woman who heard a knock on her front door and went to see who it could be. When she opened the door no onewas there except for a letter addressed to her on her door mat. When she opened it, she found a
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Druidism

Druidism Final Essay Rev. Lucinda Parker Everyone interested in the roots of paganism, animism or polytheism should take this class. I found Druidism to be far more than just a religion. It was a whole way of life, a societal structure, a way to be. The author of this class did a fine job of covering this huge and diverse
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Online Ordination

Amy, I am Rev. Michael Brian Riley. My ministry has taken me to the Dallas Veterans Administration Hospital. As a paralyzed veteran I volunteer in the VA hospital’s Spinal Cord Injury center. I help feed the patients that can’t feed themselves, Talk with the patients, help new injuries come to terms with what has happened to them and tell and
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