{"id":651,"date":"2006-04-16T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-16T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=651"},"modified":"2006-04-16T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-16T21:07:00","slug":"651","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

A Unitarian Easter sermon<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Praire Mary” Scriver, one of my favorite bloggers, re-creates the thread (or whole tangled mess of threads) of one of her Easter sermons<\/a> from her days as a UU minister.<\/p>\n

And she concludes,<\/p>\n

When I explored this stuff, members of my congregations often said afterward, “I didn’t understand one damn thing you said!” Well, that’s why they call them Mysteries. Unsolvable but eminently ponderable.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tags: Easter<\/a>, Unitarians<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Unitarian Easter sermon “Praire Mary” Scriver, one of my favorite bloggers, re-creates the thread (or whole tangled mess of threads) of one of her Easter sermons from her days as a UU minister. 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