Transcendence, Survival, and UU Religion in the 21st Century
John A. (Lex) Crane
The Journal of Liberal Religion was published by Meadville Lombard Theological School from 1999–2009.
ISSN 1527-9324
Editor's Note
The Self in Contemporary Liberal Religion: A Constructive Critique
Paul B. Rasor
Why Anti-Racism Will Fail
Thandeka
Why Anti-Racism Will Fail: A Response
David E. Bumbaugh
Evil, Race, and Us
John A. Buehrens
From Salvation to Self-Determination: Unitarian Universalism on the Michigan Frontier
Lisa M. S. Friedman
Changed By What We Cannot Name: A Response to From Salvation to Self-Determination
Nurya Love Lindberg
A Carefully Loaded Ship
Lynn Ungar
The Changing Ministry of Information
John H. Weston
The River of the Water of Life: The Challenge of Pluralism in an Interdependent World
Steven C. Rockefeller
About the Authors
An Introduction to Ron Engel
Carol Hepokoski
Earth Spirituality is a Many-Splendored Thing!
J. Ronald Engel
Who are Democratic Ecological Citizens?
Joan Gibb Engel
The Ecological Democratic Faith of J. Ronald Engel
Joshua A. Snyder
Freedom, Equality, and Community in the Eco-Justice Literature
Peter W. Bakken
Ecumenical Christianity and the Earth Charter
Dieter Hessel
Identity and Alterity: Summons to a New Axial Age
Douglas Sturm
Salvation By Character: How UU's Can Find the Religious Center
Davidson Loehr
The Influence of Liberal Religion on Mark Twain
Dwayne Eutsey
Religion Without A Soul: A Response to Paul Rasor's "The Self in Contemporary Liberal Religion: A Constructive Critique"
Susann Pangerl
The Social Self: A Reply to Susann Pangerl
Paul Rasor
Letters to the Editors
Reflections on Class in the History of Unitarianism, Universalism, and Unitarian Universalism
David E. Bumbaugh
Religious Humanism
William R. Murry
Ecojustice and Ministry
Carol Hepokoski
About the Authors
The Free Church: Revolution and Experiment
Brent A. Smith
Process Theology and the American Spiritual Culture
William Dean
What is Religious Naturalism?
Jerome A. Stone
Transforming Our Churches with Small Group Ministry
Glenn H. Turner
A Theological Basis for Unitarian Univeralist Religious Education: Wieman's "Creative Interchange" and the Principle of Free Inquiry
Jennifer J.S. Brooks
Insights From the Straight-Jacket: Epistemological Concerns Expressed by Religiously Motivated Anti-Queer Sentiments
Ludger Viefhues
Annie Dillard: Getting a Feel for the Place
Burton D. Carley
Brushed with a Clean Wing: A Response to "Annie Dillard: Getting a Feel for the Place"
Kendyl Gibbons
The Feminization of the Unitarian Universalist Clergy: Impacts, Speculations, and Longing
Dawn Sangrey
JLR readers respond to "Salvation by Character: How UU's can find the Religious Center"
Davidson Loehr
Reply to readers' responses to "Salvation by Character"
Davidson Loehr
Letters to the Editors
About the Authors
Editor's Note
To the Editor of the Journal of Liberal Religion
Brent A. Smith
Crisis-Tragedy-Promise I: A Diagnosis of Contemporary Religious Liberalism
Michael Hogue
Controversies in Early Religious Naturalism
Jerome A. Stone
Nature and Spirit: From Idyllic to Demonic
Richard A. Kellaway
Ethical Living in a Moral Desert
David E. Bumbaugh
Engaging the Sacred Wisdom of our Sisters in the Wilderness: A Unitarian Universalist/Womanist Dialogue
Aaron McEmrys
Retiring Belief in the Resurrection, Claiming the Sayings Tradition
Marvin L. Cooke
About the Authors
Editor's Note - About the Authors
The Marketing of Liberal Religion
David Bumbaugh
Response to "The Marketing of Liberal Religion"
Jennifer Crow
Response to "The Marketing of Liberal Religion"
John H. Weston
Response to "The Marketing of Liberal Religion"
Jerome A. Stone
Reply to the Responses to "The Marketing of Liberal Religion"
David Bumbaugh
Meadville and the Manifesto
Tim Barger
In Defense of Dawkins: a Response to Jason Giannetti
William R. Patterson
On Unitarian Universalist Moral Duties: Looking Forward with Cicero and Kant
Myriam Renaud
A Call to Create a Theology of Covenant
Brent A. Smith
Faber, M.D. The Psychological Roots of Religious Belief: Searching for Angels and the Parent-God
William R. Murry
Dowd, Michael. Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World
Peter Schogol
Stone, Jerome. Religious Naturalism Today: The Rebirth of a Forgotten Alternative
William R. Murry
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