Current Affairs: July 2005 Archives

Last year it was the hurricanes, and we have had a busy season this year and its still July.

And now I get this email.  In 1910, Glacier National Park had 150 glaciers. Today, just 37 remain. At the current pace at which temperatures are rising, they will all be gone by 2030! You can read more about the dramatic destruction of Glacier National Park at http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/march/glacier.

America has a civil religion.  That religion includes belief in values and practices that transcend sectarian division.  Perhaps Unitarian Universalists don't recognize this as a religion, and persist in the notion of a secular state, because the values that Jefferson, Adams and Franklin articulated are so close to their own.