Yes, we are the church you might have seen described in the Doonesbury comic strip and yes, the minister Scott Sloan was a Unitarian Universalist! Indeed he in typical fashion had both a law degree as well as Master of Divinity degree and was the chaplain when Garry Trudeau went to Yale. The minister’s name was Scotty McLennan and he wrote a…

A journalist was planning a visit to Japan. It would be his first visit, and he was a little anxious because he couldn’t speak Japanese. How would he communicate with the people he came in contact with? Since most taxi drivers do not speak English, someone suggested that it might be a good idea to carry with him something bearing the name…

A friend of mine tells the story of making his first trip south of the Mason-Dixon Line from Chicago to Georgia. On his first morning in the South he went into a restaurant to order breakfast, and it seemed that every dish included something called grits…which, as my Texas friends tell me, is exactly the way God intended it. Not being familiar…