Posts Tagged ‘quest-magazine-2013-01|salvation’

Have you ever heard a Unitarian Universalist speak of having had a conversion experience? Have you had such an experience?

But my life has not convinced me that Hell consists of simply bad intentions in the mind, selfishness and a hard heart. I am sure that some of these problems contribute to the building up of Hells on this earth, but in my experience people don’t just need to be saved from their minds, but from their conditions and situations.

It is of enormous significance that for centuries, countless African American Christians have affirmed ‘Salvation’ as vitally connected with spaciousness, deliverance, rescue, liberation or freedom…. [I]n the African American experience, the nature of salvation is to provide space— psychic, physical and spiritual—in which to function as a free being…

The first time I attended a Unitarian Universalist church for worship, I was greeted by an incredible sight: 75 percent of the people in the congregation were wearing pink triangles on their name tags. I didn’t know what to make of it. I thought I’d died and gone to some sort of queer heaven.

When we were kids, we were all supposed to have favorites of everything. Remember that? People would say, for instance, What is your favorite color? And I would always feel completely stumped.

By what are you saved? And how?Saved like a bit of string,tucked away in a drawer?