Archive for February, 2005

Who sends the best message?

Saturday, February 12th, 2005

I decided to look at each of the several hundred webpages of Unitarian Universalist congregations and see what was out there. I’ve been saving links to the more acceptable ones — grade C and above, let’s say — so that I can go back and highlight which churches really do a good job of encouraging […]

ER and Romans

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

OK, I’m watching E.R. and Weaver has met her biological mother: a South Carolina “girl in trouble” who gave her up at birth and who later becomes born again. (She was adopted by missionaries.) They meet and begin to share stories of their lives. But the crisis is that crops up is Weaver sharing the […]

What’s a wiki?

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

Adam asked what a wiki is.

See my More on Wiki from last October.

Note: a wiki needs a certain kind of editorial discipline. If the writing population is large and earnest enough, you can let everyone write and filter out out the spam and garbage. My UniversalistChurch.net wiki is going to draw on a pretty […]

A modest wiki

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005

There isn’t much there at present, but I’m developing a UniversalistChurch.net wiki at http://www.universalistchurch.net/wiki/.

I’ll be recruiting Universalist Christians to add content. If something really, really important gets added, I’ll post it here.

Polity discussion at NACCC site

Sunday, February 6th, 2005

I was over at the website of the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches, seeing if there was more news about their forthcoming hymnal. It is an organization with a tidy little site, and they put church growth up as a priority on it. Lots of easy to download resources. Worth a look in any […]

Visit “Cucumber Sandwiches” for church help, ideas

Saturday, February 5th, 2005

One of my favorite sites these days is CucumberSandwiches.org, a site by and for clergy husbands.

But the draw is that it is a creative community of relatively few men focused on making their spouses’ and families’ lives richer, in spite of administrative traditionalism and genteel penury.

How does this help us? They have clever, practical ideas […]

Certification stops at 909; Hollow Cough Club get members

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005

Well, the UUA congregational registration cycle has closed with 909 congregations participating. Watch for analysis in coming days.

As a first installment, please indulge a little macabre observation, and at the risk of being in bad taste: there is a group of churches I’m dubbing the Hollow Cough Club, after the early sign of consumption that […]

Good returns at 906

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005

Well, there were a few congregations registered February 2, so perhaps the deadline was extended for Unitarian Universalist congregations was extended. Strangely, the nominally-largest congregation, the Church of the Larger Fellowship has not registered; its growth kept last year’s very, very thin increase from being a loss.

But no need this year.

Assuming the Unitarian Universalist Church […]