My personal experience with UUism is that it's a great social network and the minister says some interesting things about our current times for 10 minutes a week, plus we sing a bunch of songs and do other rituals to make it up to an hour and 15 minutes. I'm the classic UU: "Athiest with kids." It's great that they exist, because having a social network is just great. Someone to feed you when your partner's in the hospital. People to say "hi" to at the grocery store. My normal social network is way too spread out: it's nice to have one that's in the town I actually live in.
As for paganism, there's a whole UU organization of pagans, called CUUPS (covenant of Unitarian Univeralist Pagan ...uh oh, I forget S, Society maybe?). There's a whole UU organization of GLBT(etc) called Interweave. There's a new UU organization for Polyamorous people (UUPA). There's a whole UU organization for those of Jewish extraction.
My sister-in-law-the-rabbi's beef with the UU's is that they go ahead and mix up everyone's rituals together. Pisses her off to no end when they have a Seder at the church. But I think it's cool. Is that what you mean by "doing culturally appropriative things"? It's more like, being a UU is like living in a comparative religions course.
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As for paganism, there's a whole UU organization of pagans, called CUUPS (covenant of Unitarian Univeralist Pagan ...uh oh, I forget S, Society maybe?). There's a whole UU organization of GLBT(etc) called Interweave. There's a new UU organization for Polyamorous people (UUPA). There's a whole UU organization for those of Jewish extraction.
My sister-in-law-the-rabbi's beef with the UU's is that they go ahead and mix up everyone's rituals together. Pisses her off to no end when they have a Seder at the church. But I think it's cool. Is that what you mean by "doing culturally appropriative things"? It's more like, being a UU is like living in a comparative religions course.