Another person I get a lot of questions about is one 'Michael Cauley'. He operates a site by the name of the ulcnetwork. He started appearing sometimes in early 2010, I believe, when the monastery made the unfortunate decision to hire him to run their forum or network or something. During his time with them, he spent an inordinate amount of time saying unkind and untrue things about the Seminary, the Bookstore (ulc.net), and headquarters in Modesto. He claims he did it because the monastery told him to. After he had been repeatedly accused (justifiably) of harrassing members of the ulc - anyone who disagreed with him in any way shape or form, the monastery decided to fire him. MC then claims he quit, apparently taking with him a huge database he had acquired from the monastery.

He then added the monastery to his hit list of people to bombard with his negativity. He opened his own website, started charging people for ordinations (when ULC ordinations have ALWAYS been free) and claimed that those who were not Christian ministers, following his site, were likely going to burn in hell. He apparently has very little else to do than to flood the internet with his nasty comments about people. We, at the ULCMA, do what we can to avoid him at all costs.

Please remember that ordinations with the ULC are free and legal, and the Universal Life Church recognizes and embraces all belief systems. MC likes to claim he is the only faith-based ULC in existence. Apparently, with all of his postings, he seems to have missed the hundreds of thousands of ULC faith-based websites all over the internet.

If you are worried in any way that your ordination is in question, please re-ordain yourself on this site or at headquarters directly. Only those ordinations done after Aug. 1st, 2006, on the ulc.org site are in question if your intention is to affiliate yourself with the Universal Life Church.

We, at the Universal Life Church Minister's Association are not concerning ourselves with the activities of the monastery or its affiliates. We are interested in creating a community, giving education and support to our ministers and to being genuine with our intentions. If these goals coincide with yours, then I hope you've found a home here. Andre Hensley, from ULC HQ in Modesto, CA, works with us regularly to achieve that goal.

I hope this answers your questions. If you have any others, please feel free to ask me at contact.ulcma@gmail.com.