Civility USA: Kindness as Sacrifice and Prophetic Witness ByLeigh Waltz, MFA The extent of our awareness and practice of civility defines us internally and externally. At sixteen, George Washington copied 110 “rules of civility” as a penmanship exercise.(1) Later, he was known as “He-burns-the-towns” to the Iroquois.(2) George also rode hundreds of miles, in the … Continue reading

by Leigh A. Waltz, MFAUnitarian Universalist HistoryMethodist Theological School in OhioSusan Ritchie, Ph.D.May 20, 2020 (footnotes are numbers in parentheses. — I’m learning WordPress!) Universalist faith has met religious needs while testing the limits for a denomination claiming to be Christian for its entire history.(1) This paper looks at the progression toward such limits. It … Continue reading A Dangling Branch: American Universalism’s Christianity, Post-Christianity, and Purpose.