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GordW said:
Years ago TUXIS youth parliament was males-only. It and CGIT were sort of counterparts.

Another reason is that it is sometimes very healthy (for males and females) to have single-gender gatherings.
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TUXIS? Never heard of it.
 
Jae said:
TUXIS? Never heard of it.
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Ditto, but I'm not surprised to hear it existed. For adults you had AOTS and UCW, so it makes sense there was a male counterpart to CGIT. Likely it, like AOTS, withered and died at some point. I recall that in Kitchener in the eighties, my family's church was about the only AOTS left in the city.
 
Mendalla said:
Ditto, but I'm not surprised to hear it existed. For adults you had AOTS and UCW, so it makes sense there was a male counterpart to CGIT. Likely it, like AOTS, withered and died at some point. I recall that in Kitchener in the eighties, my family's church was about the only AOTS left in the city.
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In the Baptist denominations we had neither AOTS nor UCW Mendalla. :rolleyes:
 
Jae said:
In the Baptist denominations we had neither AOTS nor UCW Mendalla. :rolleyes:
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Fine. Whatever floats the Baptist boat. Both were active, often mission-focussed, organizations within the UCCan. My parents were leaders in their respective groups and I saw a lot of good work being done. I do not share your view that segregated groups are somehow fundamentally wrong. They have a place and purpose and I, for one, am glad those organizations existed (and still exist in the case of UCW).
 
Props to your parents Mendalla. (y) My mom was a UCW leader in our UCCanada.

Mendalla said:
I do not share your view that segregated groups are somehow fundamentally wrong. They have a place and purpose and I, for one, am glad those organizations existed (and still exist in the case of UCW).
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I don't feel that way about segregated groups though - that they are fundamentally wrong.

What I do feel is fundamentally wrong is when groups segregate without good reason. I personally feel that, for example, there are issues women are best off discussing with only other women present, and issues that should be men-only.

However, I have seen and taken part in men-only events that I feel everyone should have been invited to.

Example - a men's breakfast where the topic was, "How to Read the Bible Effectively."

Example - a men's retreat where the topic was, "The Holy Spirit - in the Church and in Evangelism."
 
Thus Evan was gelled ... as Isis from stupendous shocks about what mortals are capable of in religious right modes ... Chilled?
 
Do you get the creeps when seeing a "gamma" (g) compounded with a word to cause shadowy forms?

In some traditions it refers to dark light ... or absence thereof ... indeterminate sight but good for developing feelings?

Can be in tents ...
 
I got up early today to re-write the message I planned to deliver at the 2-point charge I go to twice a month (until the end of June). I re-read the service last night before bed and decided that it didn't make sense in some places. Sometimes what I have in my head doesn't get on the page. So when I leave the message sit for awhile, and then re-visit it, I find it lacking. I also edited a lot of stuff out of it. It was about the new covenant in the Jeremiah reading, and I focused on hope and promise that counters doom and gloom.
 
Back to This Little Light Of Mine, I've known it to be mostly sing with the Satan reference included.

The United Church is very diverse. It's always dangerous for anyone to say "In the United Church we don't do [this]" because the odds are that "we" broadly speaking actually do "it" in more than a few places.

I will hazard a guess, though , that in the United Church we don't sacrifice either children or animals. That seems safe enough.

As for me, it's a vacation week and I chose to take today away from church. Our Amnesty International group was leading the service.
 
We had a weekend of meaningful services. Yesterday was a memorial service for the daughter of one of our members (the one for whom I used to walk her dog). The Rev does a lovely job of keeping a service appropriate both for the churched and the un-churched, and some of the choir got together and prepped a lovely version of Broken Halleleluja; another talented member did a lovely job of helping Mom sort, scan and organize the best pics for a really nice slide show for before and after the service.

Then today, we had a very special guest deliver the message and the children's story, a rabbi who is a member of the interfaith social justice coalition ISARC. Told the story of Esther to the kids, blew on the shofar for them, and expounded on this week's Torah portion for us. Kept the hymns largely to Psalm-based ones. Did a really effective 4-voice "Prayer of Accountability", with three of the voices coming from the pews (mic-ed, of course). Then our guests stayed for lunch, at which we endeavoured, only a little successfully, to feed he and his wife food that they could eat. We now understand a lot more about kosher than we did...We kept the lunch group small-ish - two dozen people, largely from our study groups and the worship team - so that it would be intimate enough to have a discussion. It was a real treat.
 
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