Originally published in Human Parts Nine times out of ten when people ask me about my Unitarian Universalist church I get a strange look. What they’re dying to know is are we some sort of cult. Nope, a bona fide religion. No devil worship or blood sacrifices. No groupthink. But Laura, no Bible? no doctrine? […]
Tag: Spirituality
Losing her religion
First published on Purple Clover. I have no doubt I helped destroy my daughter’s faith in God, although I myself, still believe in God, god, in some form or another. As Tina grew up, my higher power shifted from a His Will Be Done Christian to a genderless “divine force in the universe” with good […]
Jesus and Jello. Why I liked my religious buffet growing up.
Image credit: Wikipedia Excerpted from my essay “Jesus and Jello” I was raised with a la carte religion, a buffet line of a little bit here, a little bit there, mostly Methodist with a dash of Presbyterian. From time to time my mother brought my sister and I to our local church’s Sunday school […]