Archive for January, 2005

My city on inauguration day

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

Helicopters and sirens. More helicopters and sirens. Better to stay in.

Later. I love the city’s residents, for the most part.

Coming back in with my carry-out dinner and ran into neighbors. He and his wife were back from demonstrating. Scads of police from more juristictions than you could imagine.

Network up, blogger happy

Saturday, January 15th, 2005

For reasons known only to God, our home local network — which went down Christmas Eve — was wrenched back to life doing some of the same things that I swear I’ve done a dozen times already.

But I’m not complaining, and I’m in a mood to blog more frequently now.

After tomorrow’s sermon, and perhaps […]

Preaching this Sunday, January 16

Tuesday, January 11th, 2005

Just letting ya’ll know I’ll be preaching from Isaiah 49 and John 1 (the Revised Common Lectionary texts) at the Church of the Holy City (Swedenborgian) this Sunday. 11 am. Corner of 16th and Corcoran Streets, in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington D.C.

UUA member congregation size update

Sunday, January 9th, 2005

Unlike last year, you can sort reporting, certified UUA congregation by size. But so far the turn out has been pretty low, and there’s only twenty-two days remaining. No doubt we’ll see a rush soon.

See for yourself. Select your search criterion at the top.

Now, a curiosity. If you search for the Unitarian Universalist Church of […]

UUA numbers tracked — elsewhere

Wednesday, January 5th, 2005

My thanks to colleague “RevThom” at Coffee Hour for tracking the UUA congregational registration numbers; this is the best way for the rank-and-file to measure annual church growth, and since there is a Febuary 1 deadline we have the added benefit of “this just in” activity.

So far, the returns are few, but that will change […]

Ubuntu two

Monday, January 3rd, 2005

Earlier, I referred to the Zulu word ubuntu, musing on its familiar themes to Universalists.

Tonight, I was casting through those parts of the 1662 Anglican prayerbook in Zulu. (No, I don’t read Zulu, but I can control-F to find terms.) I found ubuntu (perhaps in conjunction with another word or words) in three places: […]

Universalist church for sale!

Monday, January 3rd, 2005

The buzz today: on eBay is a former Universalist church building, in New York.

Sold for scrap.

I don’t feel bad — it hasn’t been a Universalist church since 1922 — but I wouldn’t say no to an architectural feature. After all, it was built in 1818.

Go thou and bid

2004 in review

Saturday, January 1st, 2005

Blogging is still slow; problems continue on my own computer.

In reviewing stats, I’m amazed by how many visitors I’ve gotten, but keep that feeling tempered when I realize that most of today’s visitors are blog spammers. Still, looking to the search engine referrals, I see that the message is getting through, even if the #1 […]