Archive for March, 2005

Image resource

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

Sometimes you just need an image for your newsletter, order of service, blog, or what-have-you.

Wikimedia Commons, a part of the ever-growing Wikimedia project has a nice cluster of images that are either in the public domain or are licensed on very easy terms.

Some nice person has put up a whole bundle of Russian […]

Now that she’s gone . . .

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

No further comment about Terri Schaivo, except to say that the Lord bless and keep her, and it is worth revisiting a good article written by friend and colleague, Tom Schade.

Her situation should never have been a national “case”.

Totalitarianism and Terri Schiavo

A must read.

Desert island selection #3

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

On my desert island, I would have time to inwardly digest one of the harder books I’ve read. It is also the book that lead me into Trinitarianism.

A crying shame that its author died so young, but her works go before her.

God for Us: The Trinity and Christian Life by Catherine Mowry LaCugna.

Desert island selection #2

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

In the reading meme I wrote about, I mentioned I would memorize a classic work of pastoral care, if I was in a Farenheit 451-like situation.

I probably wouldn’t take along The Reformed Pastor, but I definitely would take . . .

  1. Minister’s Prayer Book, edited and with an introduction by John W. Doberstein

. . . […]

Desert island selection #1

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

Getting back to which five books I would take to a desert island.

Since I get to choose, I’m assuming there is some purpose in me being on a desert island. Perhaps personal growth. I’ll work with that.

Also, I’m only going to choose from books I actually own. If it is that needful, shouldn’t I have […]

Display banner idea

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

One of the things I do at the Day Job is trade show exhibiting.

I’ve seen good ideas and bad for booths and displays — my prior experience having been mostly sitting the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship table at General Assembly — and I may ready to recommend a product. We have one of these, and […]

Temperament and church planting

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

Little wonder the Evangelical Free Church broke its regionalism and Swedish ethnic roots to become one of the fastest growing denominations in the country: they focus on church planting.

In particular, they appeal pan-Evangelically and not just in-house, they put resources into their promotion and discernment process — and yes, they have a well developed discernment […]

Meme, indeed!

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

I have been challenged.

James, a.k.a. Peregrinato, got it from Terrance:

Boy in the Bands–Even though he won’t do this, cuz it isn’t quite his style. But that’s his choice; I still choose to nominate him!

Don’t challege me. I might take you up on it. (I’ll also quibble that this isn’t a meme, but a rather nice […]

UUs: Don’t go there

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

I’ve often heard UUs talk about how this tactic or that can be domesticated for Unitarian Universalist purposes. Numerically successful — or those that appeared this way — Evangelical churches are prime hunting grounds for seemingly good ideas.

It is worth noting that Evangelicals disagree among themeselves on whether some tactics are actually that helpful or […]

Tails?

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

Larry “we have way too much in common” Smith commented:

Enjoyed the site and the fashion show. The Disciples talk about what to wear as much as the UUs do. My roommate in college (UGA) told me that the Disciples were originally opposed to vestments. However, somewhere in the middle of the nineteenth century Disciples clergy […]


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