God bless restless energy and the technology to re-format some information the UUA has on its website.
I stuffed the last UUA congregational certification numbers the membership numbers congregations use in making an annual report for GA, plus the latest available membership numbers for the churches that didn’t certify, minus the Canadian congregations that have […]
Facilitating Paradox and Watch and Pray make almost perfectly matched blog entries. This is made all the more fun with the tincture of Christianity between the two, and the fact the former is in Ohio and the latter is in Indiana.
But what isn’t charming is the fact that each and anyone considering (seriously or hypothetically) […]
As you, Dear Reader, can tell, the issue of lay pastoral leadership has gotten my attention recently, in part because it gets to the issue of “equipping the saints,” providing new options for new church leadership, and for the UUA to keep covenant with small congregations, whether they are rural Universalist and (quasi-)Christian, or suburban […]
UCA will always be first for me the Universalist Church of America. But it can also mean the Uniting Church of Australia.
Link: The anitpodean UCA
I’ve been interested in the Australian church for some time, and this interest has been resparked over the question of distance learning for lay ministers and those on an ordination path. […]
. . . “next, on Jerry Springer.” Or so, my wayward mind goes.
This is just a way to gather links to PC (USA) presbyteries that have Commissioned Lay Pastor training program information online.
See the extended entry — I’ll add links as I find them.
This would be “If I were planting . . . . VI” but it is time to call a thing by its name.
If there are going to be more Unitarian or Universalist (or both) Christian churches, some are going to be too small, too poor, or too remote to call a minister in fellowship. Some, […]
For a while, the locally produced Hymns of Truth and Light of First Congregationalist Church (UCC), Houston, Texas has appealed to me as a good alternative for both the ten-year-old UUA produced Singing the Living Tradition and the much older joint Unitarian and Universalist hymnal (Hymns of the Spirit) that we use here in Washington. […]
I am going back and putting the now eighty entries into categories for their easier perusal.
It will take a while to get them all sorted. Please be patient.
I have been reading works related to linked house churches to (a) think outside that ever-present box for my own church and (b) get fluent in missional language to help Universalist Christianity move in mission. (Even if I’m not going to be doing it, I would like to be a help to those who are.)
Dick […]
Earlier I mentioned I was putting a significant Universalist polity document online — seeing as it is my day off — and what I have online.
See http://www.universalistchurch.net/polity/ugcmanual1891/
I’ll finish it when I have a chance, but the “Laws of Organization” piece alone will give you a good insight into how the Universalist General Convention worked.
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