The Monastery
Posted by Bruce Good on Saturday, July 9, 2011
Under: Church Schisms
This is an important announcement regarding some changes that have been happening at the Universal Life Church.
As some of you are aware, the ulc. org site changed hands in August 2006. Due to a series of unconfirmed circumstances, there was an abrupt change of leadership and ownership of the ulc. org domain name and site. It is currently in the control of George Freeman and his associates, currently signing the site as 'Br. Martin' and using a variety of websites, most notably 'themonastery.org.' The circumstances of this change are in dispute among the parties in the court system. With so many people asking questions, I felt it necessary to add a page to the ULCMA site to let people know what's going on.
For many years, the ulc. org site was owned by Daniel Zimmerman. Many of you have had dealings with him and have formed your own opinions as to his honesty and integrity. Until August 2006, the ulc. org site (known as The Monastery) was an authorized site affiliated with headquarters.
As of August 1, 2006, that is no longer the case. From that point on, if you were ordained at the ulc.org site, your ordination was not sent to headquarters, nor were you recorded as being a legal minister with the Universal Life Church. If you have any links on your own website to the ulc.org site, I strongly urge you to change the links to Universal Life Church Minister's Association, or to headquarters, to avoid sending anyone to a site that might confuse people as to its true intentions.
The new site still implies a connection between themselves and ULC Headquarters in Modesto, but no such affiliation exists. We fear this is going to be causing a lot of confusion and misunderstandings among the ministers of the ULC and we hope that, over time, word will spread and those who wish to affiliate with the real and original ULC will steer clear. I believe that Andre Hensley, at headquarters, will be issuing (or may have already issued) a press release, Wikipedia has been changed, and the word is spreading.
As some of you are aware, the ulc. org site changed hands in August 2006. Due to a series of unconfirmed circumstances, there was an abrupt change of leadership and ownership of the ulc. org domain name and site. It is currently in the control of George Freeman and his associates, currently signing the site as 'Br. Martin' and using a variety of websites, most notably 'themonastery.org.' The circumstances of this change are in dispute among the parties in the court system. With so many people asking questions, I felt it necessary to add a page to the ULCMA site to let people know what's going on.
For many years, the ulc. org site was owned by Daniel Zimmerman. Many of you have had dealings with him and have formed your own opinions as to his honesty and integrity. Until August 2006, the ulc. org site (known as The Monastery) was an authorized site affiliated with headquarters.
As of August 1, 2006, that is no longer the case. From that point on, if you were ordained at the ulc.org site, your ordination was not sent to headquarters, nor were you recorded as being a legal minister with the Universal Life Church. If you have any links on your own website to the ulc.org site, I strongly urge you to change the links to Universal Life Church Minister's Association, or to headquarters, to avoid sending anyone to a site that might confuse people as to its true intentions.
The new site still implies a connection between themselves and ULC Headquarters in Modesto, but no such affiliation exists. We fear this is going to be causing a lot of confusion and misunderstandings among the ministers of the ULC and we hope that, over time, word will spread and those who wish to affiliate with the real and original ULC will steer clear. I believe that Andre Hensley, at headquarters, will be issuing (or may have already issued) a press release, Wikipedia has been changed, and the word is spreading.
In : Church Schisms