Now that I’m getting used to Linux, and particular the Mandrake 9.1 distro, I’m learning to compile software - software most useful for church work.
In particular, I have found software for printing sheet music, advanced desktop publishing, and databases, plus the server-side church administration software I mentioned earlier. Just a few notes for what to […]
For the next few days, I’ll be trying out different colors and formats. FYI.
Chutney asks about population versus Unitarian Universalist numbers: fair enough. We’re just treading water, but sinking on a historical scale.
Since 2000, the United States has grown about 3.3%, which matches the rough 0.8-1.0% annual growth we’ve had for the last few decades.
Two sites for stats from the U.S. Census:
www.census.gov/population/estimates/nation/popclockest.txt
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With well more than a third of the congregations in the UUA reporting, a trend is setting in that bodes ill: 1% growth. The 398 congregations that certified have a combined membership of 64,519 members, but have only added 667 to “the family.” Again, 310 of those are the Church of the Larger Fellowship, meaning […]
Philocrites, in the last entry, picked up on the probable red-flags in the “top 36′ list. I knew that James Reeb Unitarian Universalist, Madison, Wisconsin, would falls off the list as it reported large membership losses.
But Unitarian Universalist Meeting House, Chatham, Massachusetts, stood out more. A UU congregation founded in Massachusetts in 1988? That had […]
Philocrites, in two postings, announced the thirty-six greatest growing congregations, and rather plainly points out how few congregations make up the bulk of the UUA’s net growth.
The problem with the lists is that it depends upon UUA data that seems to reset the clock at when a church is founded. But this includes a church […]
I mentioned “Akron Plan” churches earlier, and wanted to explain. Here’s a quick description from
the New Jersey Churchscape website:
I was led to the story of a Methodist Episcopal church in Akron, Ohio that was built in 1866-1870, designed by George Kramer but with the plan specified by the church’s Sunday School Superintendent, Lewis […]
With more than 350 UUA member congregations certified, a bad trait is showing up. Including a formerly dormant church now a member, but excluding three Canadian churches that left the UUA (so giving the most favorable numbers possible) the aggragate growth is a puny 811 persons in congregations equaling 37,918 members.
The good news is that […]
Universal salvation rests on progression and probation, and is unattainable without them. Mary Baker Eddy: Science and Health 291:12.
Having missed worship on Sunday, I took in a testimony meeting last night at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in my neighborhood. It is a massive brick building, but gated tight as a tomb outside […]
The International Council of Unitarians and Universalists has a nice new (so new that some of the pages are still being built) website at a new domain. Go set your bookmarks: www.icuu.net
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