The Unitarian Universalist Meeting House

In Russellville there is a chapel called Edwards Chapel Christian Church. But the original founding site for the church is between London and Russellville, Arkansas, near the Illinois Bayou. In the 1930s the church split up when that happened the greater part of the church fellowship when to the Church of Christ. This church was converted in 1939 it was converted into a church.The church was originally organized by the white minister Pope Kelley in 1867 near Coal Springs near Dwight Mission. The original founding site of Dwight Mission Indian was overlooked by the Edwards Chapel Christian Church. The church was for the local white citizens, freeman, and former slaves. The church was moved to Outia at the foothills of Norristown Mountain on

The General Conference of the United Methodist Church voted in 1968 to abolish the African-American Central Jurisdiction and to merge all churches regardless of race under the new United Methodist Church. It set a goal for each Annual Conference area to merge together by 1972. South Carolina began discussions on merger as early as 1966, but it took until 1972 to accomplish the goal. The two conferences, the all-white 1785 Conference, and the African-American 1866 Conference merged at the 1972 Annual Conference meetings in Spartanburg. This paper will focus on the issues that faced the merger starting with the first Plan for Merger in 1970 until the completion of the merger in 1972.

Everybody looked very cheerful and benevolent. It felt like one big family gathering. We entered the synagogue and there were plush chairs and carpet embellished with nature like colors and leaf designs. The roof was high, there was a lot of light, gold accents, a stained glass window, wooden beams that were exposed, as well as a wooden bureau, which housed the Torah. There were also candles and podium/table from which the rabbi spoke.

This book Pray the Gay Away by Bernadetta C. Barton discusses about certain areas in the United States called Bible Belts were they have made absolutely no progress in securing rights for gay people. They lag behind the rest of nation were people are accepting homosexuality (Pray the Gay Away 15). Barton argues that in small towns were Christian institutions serve as a foundation for both passive and active homophobia in these areas (Pray the Gay Away 19). This article is related to the play because the two dominant religions discussed in the play was Judaism and Mormonism and both religions strongly oppose homosexuality and this lead to homophobic attitudes and themes within the play.

For an observation of an AA meeting my classmate and I made arrangements to go to an open meeting at Our Lady Star Of The Sea Church, which was held in a basement during a Tuesday afternoon session at 4:00 p.m. I first looked up the sessions online on a website where it held all the meetings on Staten Island and this one fit my schedule well. Its not unusual for me to be attending or visiting churches but for this assignment it did feel a little out of my comfort zone, because I didn’t know what to expect or what others would think of me. I chose a seat in the back corner that wouldn’t be too obvious yet it seemed like a typical seat for a newbie to sit at. The room was fairly large and I was surprised at how big the crowd got at least 30 plus people attended.

Historians investigating African American religious history have labeled the secretive slave worship services the “Invisible Institution” because much of it was invisible to the eyes of their masters. They had secret places in which they met. Some of the places were: “In their cabins, woods, thickets, hollows, and brush arbors (shelter of cut branches also called ‘hush harbors’) throughout the South, slaves held their own religious meetings where they interpreted Christianity according to their experience, applying the stories and symbols of the Bible to make sense out of their lives.”

In 1905, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, under the direction of Rev. L. L. Downing, erected their persistently famous Stonewall Jackson memorial window. Each Sunday, Fifth Avenue’s pastor still preaches from the pulpit with this picturesque image in the background, denoting the phrase, “Let us Cross the River and Rest in the Shade of the Trees.” General Jackson was, of course, well known for his devout Presbyterian faith. What may be most surprising to those unfamiliar with Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, however, is that it is a historically black congregation. As a local historian has explained:

The Westboro Baptist Church goes out its way to spread its toxic messages about veterans, LGBT Community. The Unitarian Universalism, advocates liberal, community actions.

I went to an AA meeting at the First Congregational Church in New London, Connecticut on Monday February 22, at 7 pm. It was located in a larger room in the basement of the church. There were around fifteen members that attended. The individual’s came from an array of different ages and ethnicities, both men and woman. There was no one race or ethnicity that dominated another in the meeting, it was a very warm, accepting atmosphere. I noticed right away that there was more young adults around the age of thirty than elderly members. There was also around the same number of males and females in attendance.

The CODA, Codependents Anonymous group meeting I attended meets every Saturday at 10:15 at the Church of the Resurrection in Tempe. This self-help group is open and homogeneous. It is for women only, is in one of the church’s classrooms, and has a couple rectangular tables and chairs to place as needed for the group size. The date I attended, March 26th there were eleven other women, all Caucasian, ages approximately from early twenties to early sixties. Occupations and status were not discussed. The meeting is absent of a specific leader; instead members are encouraged to take turns rotating who facilitate the meeting.

The CODA, Codependents Anonymous group meeting I attended meets every Saturday at 10:15 at the Church of the Resurrection in Tempe. This self-help group is open and homogeneous. It is for women only, is in one of the church’s small classrooms, and has a couple rectangular tables and chairs to place as needed for the group size. The date I attended, March 26th there were eleven other women, all Caucasian, ages approximately from early twenties to early sixties. Occupations and status were not discussed. The meeting does not have a specific leader; instead members are encouraged to take turns rotating who facilitate the meeting.

This article was anything but superficial in fact it was audacious, yet horrifying. It focused on the Westboro Baptist Church, a small congregation based in Topeka, Kanas. The church has been globally associated with homophobia ever since the 1990s when members would protest the funerals of people who suffered from AIDS. The church especially began to gain media attention in 2000 when they began protesting the funerals of military men and women who were homosexual. They believed that the nation’s acceptance of homosexuality was the reason for all the war casualties. The congregation of the church is mostly members of the Phelps family, although many of the Phelps children had begun to abandon the church. Megan Phelps is one of the many who abjure the church; she gives in an inside of the abhorrent church to the New Yorker. The

On October 21, 2016 I went to the Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah with my soccer team. The temple is located in the center of Salt Lake City’s center, known as temple square. The temple consists of 6 buildings, but I only saw four. Each building serves different purposes for the church. The first building I saw was the visitors center. Here I learned about the basics and fundamentals of the church and their religion. The second building I saw was the Tabernacle which is the home of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Here is where the choir practices and performs. The next building I saw was the Assembly Hall. The guide did not explain the purpose of this building, but I am assuming that it is for meetings and activities. While walking, we saw the Church Office Building which is the home of the church’s world headquarters of The Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This building is 28 stories and helps facilitate church functions throughout the world. While touring the beautiful temple square, I saw and learned many things about the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that I had not known before.

The American Unitarian Association wanted them to travel to Czechoslovakia, where there was a large Unitarian community, to lead an emergency relief mission that church leaders described as “the first intervention against evil undertaken by the denomination.” This work included assessing the refugee crisis in Czechoslovakia, providing food, shelter, and support to refugees, and ultimately helping hundreds to flee the country. Everett Baker had approached 17 other couples prior to the Sharps, and all had refused this post.

As I took off my shoes before entering the main temple before the first worship session began, I began to feel a sense of peace within myself as well those that were attending the worship session. Inside the main temple was a huge statue of Buddha surrounded with white silhouettes of the Lotus flower, which seems to be the symbol of peace. Tens of incense jars filled with sand litter the alter the room. The room smelled like incense, pleasant and peaceful. There were twenty rows of small cushions that were used for kneeling and sitting, and twenty rows of small raised shelves that were used for holding the prayers that were going to be recited during that session. People were filling the room really quickly, and seats were being taken