{"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":"<p><strong>A Unitarian Easter sermon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Praire Mary&#8221; Scriver, one of my favorite bloggers, re-creates the thread (or whole tangled mess of threads) of <a href=\"http:\/\/prairiemary.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/easter-peony.html\">one of her Easter sermons<\/a> from her days as a UU minister.<\/p>\n<p>And she concludes,<\/p>\n<p><em>When I explored this stuff, members of my congregations often said afterward, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t understand one damn thing you said!&#8221; Well, that&#8217;s why they call them Mysteries. Unsolvable but eminently ponderable.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/easter\" rel=\"tag\">Easter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/unitarians\" rel=\"tag\">Unitarians<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Unitarian Easter sermon &#8220;Praire Mary&#8221; 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. And she concludes, When I explored this stuff, members of my congregations often said afterward, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t understand one damn thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-651","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10263,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10263","url_meta":{"origin":651,"position":0},"title":"A Pagan-ish Easter Ceremony in Poland","author":"Chas S. 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The Incarnation of God\u2014in their theology. And they have to beg people to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Christianity\"","block_context":{"text":"Christianity","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=christianity"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2190,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2190","url_meta":{"origin":651,"position":3},"title":"Can You Prove that Witches Exist in Canada?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Somehow I missed this, but last September an organization of self-proclaimed Canadian skeptics challenged the world to prove that witches exist\u2014along with Bigfoot, voodoo, and the Easter Bunny. OK, all this fun hinges on the difference between \"anthropological witchcraft\" and capital-P Pagan religious capital-W Witchcraft. But still. 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