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Pre-Teen Training in a local Unitarian-Universalist church

Salty

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Cam across this web page for this "church"!

Jedi Academy is a class for fourth, fifth, and sixth graders (8-12 years old). This class uses Star Wars as a platform for exploration in the areas of skill, senses, courage, insight, and spirit. Children will develop mindfulness practices and investigate big ideas about social justice and faith relating through a fictional work. The curriculum references the first six movies (the original trilogy and the prequels), but children do not need to have watched the Star Wars movies to participate in the class.


When I look for their beliefs - about the only thing I could find is that they do not believe in the Trinity.

According to Wiki: they no longer observe the Christian symbols of baptism, communion, or confirmation,
In addition, evidently they do not believe in Hell.

(I know, i know - can we really call the UU a "Christian" denomination)
 

RighteousnessTemperance&

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(I know, i know - can we really call the UU a "Christian" denomination)

"Today they draw from a variety of religious traditions. Individuals may or may not self-identify as Christians or subscribe to Christian beliefs."

Looks like they don’t consider themselves a Christian denomination either.
 

Walter

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Cam across this web page for this "church"!

Jedi Academy is a class for fourth, fifth, and sixth graders (8-12 years old). This class uses Star Wars as a platform for exploration in the areas of skill, senses, courage, insight, and spirit. Children will develop mindfulness practices and investigate big ideas about social justice and faith relating through a fictional work. The curriculum references the first six movies (the original trilogy and the prequels), but children do not need to have watched the Star Wars movies to participate in the class.


When I look for their beliefs - about the only thing I could find is that they do not believe in the Trinity.

According to Wiki: they no longer observe the Christian symbols of baptism, communion, or confirmation,
In addition, evidently they do not believe in Hell.

(I know, i know - can we really call the UU a "Christian" denomination)

At one time, there were trinitarian universalist churches as well as unitarian.. When I was in Massachusetts some years back, I drove by a universalist church that still had 'trinitarian' in parenthesis in the church sign. Apparently all universalist churches are unitarian today despite what they once were. At one time, universalist churches were thriving in the Northeast, however, if you walk into one today you will probably find fifteen or twenty people in a sanctuary which holds five hundred.
 
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