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Monthly Archives: August 2015
Culture and Tradition; Southern Style
I am a Southern boy, through and through. Born and raised in Macon, GA, I have spent my entire life in the South. Southerners are a complex and, many times, conflicted people. I know that generalizations don’t work, but for … Continue reading
Culture and Tradition: The Cauldron
Culture includes all of these forces that shape and contain our lives: social structures, unwritten customs and rules, language, religion, art and literature, forms of government and economic systems. Culture is the great cauldron from which our giftedness pours forth, … Continue reading
Culture and Tradition: Economic Systems
Economic systems are how a people determine who will participate in the resources of the culture and how. An American enigma: we value democracy but practice plutocracy–rule by the wealthy. Is our economic system tilted always toward keeping the wealthy … Continue reading
Culture and Tradition: Government
Forms of government are formal ways of establishing values and behavior. Around government, there has been in my life time almost constant conversation about “culture wars.” Are Americans in a 300+ year long experimentation in creating a new culture? Do … Continue reading
Culture and Tradition: Religion
Religion–a significant source of how a group passes on ethical values, behaviors and holds itself together. We practice a religion in Unitarian-Universalism that allows us to craft our own way in the world and in many senses to craft a new … Continue reading
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Culture and Tradition: Art and Culture
Arts and Literature, simply put, are how a culture passes on values and takes pride in itself. In our sanctuary at UUCG, thanks to the gifts and passions of many of our community, our walls are graced with a perpetual … Continue reading
Culture and Tradition: Language
Language is a vehicle by which culture is passed on. If that sounds a bit too clinical, consider how these questions tend to make us in the U.S. respond. Should English be the legally defined national language of the United … Continue reading
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Tagged UU 1st Principle, UU 2nd Principle, UU 4th Principle, UU 7th Principle
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