RevDorris
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My Tagline:
Unitarian Community
My Interests:
Prayer, Meditation, Worship, God, Interfaith issues, Books, Education, Travel, Family, Writing, Speaking, Exploring,
My Favorite Books, Authors, Musicians, Movies, Preachers, TV shows, etc:
The Bible, The Torah, The Zohar, The Rig Veda, The Middle Discourses of Buddha, The Nazarene Gospel Restored, Hermetica, The Nag Hammadi Library Scrolls, The Dead Sea Scrolls, The Principal Upanisads, The Lost Light, The Koran
Who Inspires Me:
People with a smile and a sparkle in their eyes.
My organizations and affiliations:
The American Unitarian Conference, The International Metaphysical Ministers Association, Good Shepherd Community Mission, Unitarian Community
My favorite spiritual activities:
Reading, Writing, Discussions with open minded individuals.
What is your current spiritual mood?:
Loving
What's your spiritual type?:
Confident Believer - I have found the right path and am fully committed to it.
About Me
I believe there is One God worshiped in many different ways. I believe that all the religions are branches of a single tree. I believe the common link in all religions is love of God and service and love of your fellow man. I believe we should seek to harmonize the best teachings from all the religions and live to the best of our ability what we say we believe.
I was ordained in 1991. I received a Doctor of Metaphysical Science degree in 1994. I served as the minister of the Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship of South Dade from 1994 to 1997.
I have been a member of the International Metaphysical Ministers Association since 1991. I was a member of the Unitarian-Universalist Association from 1992 to 2001. I have been a member of the American Unitarian Conference since 2001.
At this point in my life, I want to promote a "Unitarian Community" where all who worship the One God will feel welcomed and loved.
I am the author of the book, A Unitarian Perspective. It is available on http://www.barnesandnoble.com/
My Basics
Gender: Male
Occupation: Minister
Faiths:
Holistic spirituality
Faith Description: Unitarian, The American Unitarian Conference, Metaphysician, International Metaphysical Ministers Association, Good Shepherd Community Church, Multifaith, Religious, Seeking, Spiritual, Unitarian, A Higher Power, A sacred text, Community, God, Mother Nature, Power of Love, Prayer, Service, The Bible, The Golden Rule, Unitarian Community
RevDorris's Journal
Posted: Jun 19, 2008 4:00 PM
Starting in July, Unitarian Community will be publishing a monthly e-mail newsletter. It will be free to all who wish to receive it. ... (more)
Posted: Jun 15, 2008 10:04 AM
Letting Scriptures speak for themselves. From Mark: 6.2-3 On the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue. They... (more)
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Hi! - June 21, 2008 - 04:00 PM
Hey there Rev.! Thanks for welcoming me as a friend here. It was refreshing to read your "about me" section because it corresponds so strongly with my own beliefs/feelings, and as an occasional U.U. member myself (on and off attendance that is, largely due to hectic full family life, and the local U.U. community being in a transition of sorts that I need a little space from) it was refreshing to see a U.U. member so open about your spirituality. I say this because in our U.U. fellowship many of the members are elderly "modernists", you know, that outdated brand of thinkers who still thinks science proves there is no God, etc. Anyways, not to come down too hard on them, I just feel like a congregation where you almost feel like you have to hide the fact that you feel witness to grace and divinity in life is a little weird for me. I've sensed through the U.U. magazine that nationally there is a little more openness to inner life, and you have confirmed that for me. In the national U.U. magazine a year or two ago there was a plea for "language" to express inner experience by a woman who grew up in the U.U. community and felt as a child and teen like it was taboo to use plain spiritual language like "God" around U.U.ers. I've been trying to address some of this need for baggage free language. My book, which comes out next spring, is an exploration of original and first hand language for the spiritual whole so many of us here on beliefnet feel that we are all indivisible aspects of. I hope maybe you'll message me about some of these thoughts, or your reactions to my book if you peek at the webpage www.beingourself.com One thing I wonder is how do you think it might or might not address some of the need for language expressed in the article I mentioned within U.U. communities? Thanks again for being a friend. Peace! Ty