Show Appreciation to Your Pastor
October is Pastor Appreciation Month. It’s a time dedicated to reminding your pastor and his or her family how much they are appreciated. You may not think about it, but your pastor probably has crazy hours. He or ...
Category: Holidays and Observances Religion
Oklahoma Clergy Stand Up Against Predatory Lending
Predatory lending is defined as "any lending practice that imposes unfair or abusive loan terms on a borrower. It is also any practice that convinces a borrower to accept unfair terms through deceptive, coercive, exploit ...
Building a Ministry of Service
96664943](/assets/ulc/blog/scaled/mlkmemorial.jpg){.alignleft .size-medium .wp-image-7856 width=200 height=300}The great people whom later generations admire and celebrate are never really superheroes with powers beyond ...
Category: Social Equality Social Justice
Get Ordained to Perform a Wedding in the US
When Thomas Jefferson penned the phrase "separation of church and state," he may not have been thinking about marriage, but that statement should go hand and hand with 21st century weddings. Over two hundred years afte ...
Category: Online Ordination
How to Fill Out a Marriage License
So you want to perform a wedding ceremony? As a minister, even a minister ordained online, it is your job as the wedding officiant to complete the couple's marriage certificate. While it may seem slightly intimidating ...
Category: Weddings Perform a Wedding
Survival of Fittest: Evolution vs Creation
Earlier this week, Bill Nye "the Science Guy" debated Creation Museum founder Ken Ham at Ham's facility in Kentucky. The two discussed if creationism as a literal interpretation of the Bible is a viable model for explain ...
Category: Science
Get Ordained to Be a Label?
Nowadays there are some individuals that avoid labels like the plague. You might notice this if you start talking to a friend about a person or idea and are cut off and informed that he doesn't want to use a word that wi ...
Category: ULC Topics Become Ordained Online
Burning Man Festival a Place to Get Married
Burning Man organizers encourage couples to get married by a ULC minister at the week-long alternative event. Burning Man, the week-long alternative event annually held in Black Rock Desert, Nevada, has long-established ...
Category: Religion ULC Topics
In Time of Tragedy, the Benevolent Reign
In the wake of Japan's massive and devastating tsunami, there has been much controversy surrounding the destruction and inevitable clean up of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. For the past month there has been a media ...