Another member said that, before the talk, she thought she was a pantheist, but now thought she must be a pagan instead. Actually, I'd described anthropomorphism as attributing human characteristics to things that probably don't have them. All in all, there were no big surprises, but it does show that there is a lot of common ground between UUs and pantheists. There's no reason that I can think of why other UU's in our mail group couldn't do something similar. The tendency of modern speculation is rather towards an undefined pantheism . . .
Pantheism falls in with and encourages the vague, vast longing and aspiration of our time . . .
It does not confine like Theism, nor chill like Atheism. It is warm, nebulous, expansive, with a rich, inexhaustible atmosphere. It is at once mighty and mild, terrible and tender. It is a philosophy, a faith, and a religion. It fills the mind with awe and mystery.