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Some of you have found this church through Beliefnet.com. You took the quiz on the website to see which faith your profile resembled, and found you were closest to Unitarian Universalist, or perhaps to Secular Humanist, sometimes Quaker, in some order of the three. Then, I've been told, it's true at my church, I'm sure it's true of yours. I've been told-that, some of you-not knowing what Unitarian Universalist meant, moved to that website, then linked to this church's website, and here you are.
Almost every time we have a group join our church in Dallas, someone in the group has found us through Beliefnet.com. I have to believe it is also true here.
It may interest some of you that Beliefnet.com now has a feature called "Soulmatch", a matching service to help you meet people online with your same values, and characteristics. In the initial quiz, to introduce you to the service, you can check, among other things, what faith you would prefer your matches to have. The list starts with "Any", and after the second on the list, shows all the usual main religions of the world. It is the second one that caught my eye. It is, "Spiritual but Not Religious".
I know exactly what it means. I've heard many in my church use just that phrase to describe themselves. I expect that a large number of people check that box on Soulmatch, so your chances would be good to meet someone if you also checked it, I would think. And I also might guess that if those people who checked "Spiritual but Not Religious" met, fell in love and decided to marry, they would have a high probability of having the wedding at a Unitarian Universalist church.
Originally delivered by Dr. Laurel Hallman, Senior Minister of First Unitarian Church of Dallas on 03 April 2005
The text for this sermon can be viewed online at
http://austinuu.org/sermons/
© Laurel Hallman 2003
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