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A discussion about parenting and liberal religion, with Michelle Richards, author of Tending the Flame: The Art of Unitarian Universalist Parenting. | Welcome | Subscribe
By Michelle Richards, on August 9th, 2010 Despite our best intentions to raise freethinking children who understand there are many possibilities for religious truths, the reality is most of us live and function in a world which frowns upon nonconformity where religious ideas are concerned. Even as our country grows more and more religiously diverse each generation, distrust of atheism, agnosticism, and [...]
By Michelle Richards, on July 26th, 2010 Because so many of us Unitarian Universalist parents come from other religious traditions or were raised unchurched, it’s often much easier for us to definitively state what we do not believe than what we do believe. Even parents who were raised as Unitarian Universalists may struggle with this if their own parents neglected to pass on [...]
By Michelle Richards, on March 1st, 2010 Although most Unitarian Universalist parents encourage their children to question and think for themselves, they also strive to pass on important values in terms of ethics and morality. However, when it comes to sharing religious beliefs with children, many parents face a dilemma. They fear indoctrinating their children, something they consider inconsistent with the very core [...]
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