The North American Mission Board is the home outreach for the Southern Baptist Convention. You would rightly expect the largest Protestant denomination to do this well, and have ample resources. Since they’re more than a hundred times our size, they can work on a scale, and with a track record we cannot.
But I think what [...]
I love reading and learning about liturgy.
There is the multidisciplinary piece that makes academic liturgics an ideal way to form a liberal education (librarianship is another) and there is a practical piece, too. A liturgical education helps form better worship. Win-win, I say, and a lot less creepy, say, than an armchair survey of [...]
The web resources of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand have nothing I can find about church planting, but include just about everything else, including some helps for small congregations. Since young churches start small or under-developed, this can be very helpful.
This denomination has about fifty thousand members in a nation of fewer than [...]
While we have a civil responsibility to defend the rights and welfare of those who face persecution in all its forms, Christians have a special responsibility to those Christians who are persecuted. By this I mean real persecution, and not the whining you here from people (within the United States) that they can’t put a [...]
With the recent brouhaha over a certain fictional work (The Davinci Code) there has been speculation about how nice it would have been if Jesus and Mary Magdalene had married, settled down, had some kids, and lived the All-Judean Dream.
Bull. Not “bull” over the historicity of it (which is certainly bull) but “bull” over [...]
In part three, I asked you to make up an order of worship from traditional sources that fit the ability and culture of your congregation. In part four, I suggested some resources that you might be able to plug in.
Here, I’ll conclude this series for the interim, and offer a few suggestions.
Before you go public [...]
I’ve been commenting off-blog to some colleagues about the wonderful resources I’ve found with other denominations, and how this reality should make us look within the UUA and demand better.
The first resources I want to uplift is from the American Baptist Churches, sometimes known as the “Northern Baptists.” At about 1.5 million members, they’re about [...]
When I reviewed my statistics, I discovered the phrases that pulled in the most visitors is “voluntary simplicity.” Indeed, my denunciation of voluntary simplicity as a toy of white, middle class liberals is #30 in the Google.com search for “voluntary simplicity”! (that article)
Recently, I read a review of the magazine Real Simple that denounced that [...]
Are you a Unitarian Universalist with a vested interest in church planting? A member of a UUA district extension committee, perhaps? Know someone that is? A new mailing list may be for you. See uuchristian.net/mailman/listinfo/church-planters_uuchristian.net
BloggerCon’s leadership has posted its standards for newbies (newcomers) and again I think we have hints for a working format for district meetings and General Assembly. Go look; it won’t take you five minutes to read it, and chances are you’ve spent much, much more time than that bored stupid at some meeting, GA or [...]
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