With any new endeavor, the question why? comes up. Here are two likely objections to this new church, and my answers.
We don’t need a new Unitarian church around here. Metropolitan Washington has plenty, and large ones.
There is no area in the United States that has enough Unitarian Universalist Association member congregations. We are so marginal, […]
Earlier, I listed the first ten good things a church member would say about our new church. Here’s the second set.
My parents and children both feel welcome here. My church helps me make friends. My church lets me develop sexual ethics in an environment of trust and accountability. There are people here who know when I’m missing. My church […]
As I worked on my vision, I realized the that the core constituencies (others may come, but these are who the work of the church are directed towards; dubbed “ministry focus group”) have one thing in common: these are people who have given up on Christian faith because they feel (often with good reason) that […]
Something I have to work on is a name for this church, and I welcome your suggestions in the comments section. This is where being too close to the material can be limiting. A theological name will almost certainly send a misfired message. There are the twin risks of being too cute (an alliterating name?) […]
One of the things I’m doing preparing for the new start church is coming up with fifty affirmative statements someone might make to describe this church, as is it were already up and running. If you can’t do this, then you probably don’t have a good enough idea of what the implementation will be like.
Some […]
Bob Jones University isn’t my favorite place, but they’ve conveniently listed a number of cities which in their estimation lack an adequate suffiency of Fundamentalist churches. Looking at the list, I can’t say the Unitarian Universalists have put a dent in them either. Some (most?) are “second-string” but substantial cities, and many have only a […]
A recent comment was left with an entry so old that many readers will have never seen it. The comment reads in part:
Please email a copy of the universalist dedication ceremony for our daughter. I was raised Catholic and my husband was raised Jewish. He is an agnostic now and I believe in […]
I will admit being a bit irritated at Pete Brierley’s question, and wanted a while to stop being irritated to respond.
Three questions to ponder. Would God desire universal salvation? Can God accomplish it? Can human or demonic action frustrate it? Obviously, I have a strong opinion about each of these.
For all the preaching of “faith […]
OK, I used some of my time not blogging to learn a different style of web-writing, and so improved his and my New Church Mission blog. Let me know if this one looks wrong.
Sorry, Philo, still no orange, but I did give it a try when I was modeling this re-build.
I’m going to blog less (and prepare for my church plant more) in the next few days. All the same, I couldn’t let my newly arrived purchase from Ebay go unheralded.
I now have a pristine copy of the 1894 Our World and Work for Missions by Henry W. Rugg, and published by Universalist Publishing House. […]
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