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Sat, 09 Jul 2011 06:55:05 +0100

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.

The Monastery

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 06:51:41 +0100

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.

The Official Universal Life Church

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:14:20 +0100

Hello and welcome to the Universal Life Church Minister's Association website. We hope to provide all Universal Life Church ministers a place for fellowship and education. Our purpose is to facilitate the sharing of experiences between ministers, both old and new. If you are a new minister or have been a ULC minister for years, we welcome you and extend our deepest desire to help you start or grow your ministry. Start by meeting other ministers in our forum.

The Universal Life Church has no traditional doctrine. We as an organization believe in that which is right. Each individual has the privilege and responsibility to determine what is right for themselves, as long as it does not infringe on the rights of others. We do not stand between you and your God. We are active advocates of the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.

WE ARE ADVOCATES OF THE GOOD LIFE! We want to be competent, to be proficient, to be cooperative, to love our fellow man, to appreciate, to be humble, to be honest, to be moral, to live positively, to be what we profess.
If you are not already ordained by the Universal Life Church in Modesto, CA and would like free ordination, please follow this link. Free Ordination