Archive for March, 2005

No tax lawyer in the house

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005

There are two Scott Wells-es in Washington, D.C. The other one is a tax lawyer.

This time each year, I get scads of calls from people who use 411 instead of his business card. Indeed, he gets more calls than I do. When his law school alumni office called today, I realized I needed to write […]

A Washington blogger meet?

Monday, March 21st, 2005

I know ChaliceChick and I are in metro Washington — are there others?

And might we meet like Philocrites, the Transparent Eye, PeaceBang and other might in Boston?

Holy Week word play

Monday, March 21st, 2005

One of the nice things about being a Minister with a Day Job is the opportunity for theological chat over the figurative water cooler. Today I was asked for the skinny on what a church acronym meant; here is the answer, with a few more reply. If you want the proper Latin or Greek behind […]

Queens churches merge

Monday, March 21st, 2005

It seems time has caught up with the Unitarian Universalist congregation in Hollis, Queens. Next month it will merge with the congregation in Flushing.

No other commentary but it seems something of a lost opportunity, and that the Hollis congregation was one of the smallest in the UUA with a website.

Hollis Church To Close, Merge With […]

When the vandal comes from within

Monday, March 21st, 2005

Another one of those unpleasant stories took a twist when the vandal of a pro-gay-marriage banner at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Binghamton, New York, turned out to be a long-time member of the congregation. (Sorry to hear it, Doug.)

See this Associated Press article, 20 March 2005 Church member charged with anti-gay vandalism

Advanced technology and church parking spaces

Monday, March 21st, 2005

MeanDean writing at his Heal Your Church Website blog (Beowulf or Mosix - solving the parking lot problem through simulation) asks how clustering computers can provide the power to run advanced building- and parking-lot use simulation senarios.

In other words, can a mission church, a Boy Scout troop, the choir in practice, and Weight Watchers […]

How to run a meeting

Sunday, March 20th, 2005

Anyone who has even a passing responsibility in the running of churches need to read — no, read, inwardly digest, and make copies for others — of ChaliceChick’s posting . . .

“The ex-Presbyterian presents: How to run a Goddamn meeting“

You got it right, tiger.

Blog design deathmatch

Sunday, March 20th, 2005

Yes, I’m changing the blog design again. I am an ENTJ after all.

I was inspired by my new guilty pleasure: Craft Corner Deathmatch

CHMOD primer

Sunday, March 20th, 2005

Philocrites has said that blog ‘ware is too hard for non-geeks, and I said it needn’t be so if there were detailed directions for some of the housekeeping pieces, like setting permissions on the server (remote computer that has the files) — this is the enigmatic CHMOD.

Here’s one tutorial for a commonly-used File Tranfer Protocol […]

First Five Hundred Years and Liberal Catholics

Sunday, March 20th, 2005

The following item is for sale now on eBay:

UNIVERSAL SALVATION: The Prevailing Doctrine of the Christian Church for the First 500 Years, a hardcover book first published in 1899, reprinted by the Liberal Catholic Church for seminary students of St. Alban Theological Institute.

First, I wouldn’t bother getting this since it is a reprint, and there’s […]