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The founder of Universal Life Church, Kirby Hensley, saw that clause and ran with it, turning literally millions of people into ministers of his church and encouraging them to declare themselves tax exempt. Not surprisingly, Hensley’s battle with… Read More

Jesse Hughes is looking out through actual rose-colored glasses, but the view seems far from upbeat. “I need weed, dude,” he tells me. It’s early September, and I’m sitting backstage at a club in Minneapolis with rock’s last… Read More

Remember, around this time over 2 thousand years ago, a young couple was making their way to Bethlehem with very little to their name. But they received refuge and safety from kind people. Help those less fortunate or… Read More

“It can save humanity. Cannabis is something to be put on a pedestal, to be revered.” An ordained minister with the online Universal Life Church and a marijuana caregiver who originally hails from Ypsilanti, Hall moved back to… Read More

Last year my friends Jeff and Veronica sat me down and asked if I would do them the honor of officiating their wedding. Jeff was my college roommate and had been a groomsman when I got married a… Read More

Jessica Kozak in her new business, Simply Married, in downtown Toledo. The business, kitty-corner to the Lucas County Courthouse, offers an alternative site for a wedding. When same-sex marriages were declared legal by the U.S. Supreme Court on… Read More

Barbara Lennie, Salida, was ordained as a minister of Universal Life Church Nov. 5, giving her all the rights and privileges to perform duties of the ministry. She received her doctor of divinity degree from Universal Life Church… Read More

PARMA, Ohio — The struggling Parma school board has named Tiffin University administrator Michael Lewis as its newest appointee. On his resume, Lewis lists a doctorate in divinity from Universal Life Church Monastery, an honorary degree listed on… Read More

The ULC was founded in 1959 under the name ‘Life Church’ by the Reverend Kirby J. Hensley. Disappointed with the Pentecostal church, Hensley decided to venture on his own to find his religion. After five years of studying… Read More

June 18, 2011 – PRLog– Recently, the Universal Life Church, founded in 1959 in Modesto CA, known for its ‘online ordinations’, and mentioned in shows such as ’Friends’ and ’Big Love’, has come under heavy fire from one… Read More