Ages ago I promised a very, very patient person that I would try and construct a Universalist Christian metanarrative in aid of a new Universalist ecclesiology and mission.
That hasn’t happened yet. But imagine my ears perking up when — several weeks ago — I saw a reference to a piece of software with the […]
Did two things in the last twenty-four hours that I hope helps me reclaim more time.
Removed all the games from my computer. I don’t even like free cell, and yet I’ve played it several times this week. Started using the Hipster PDA again. (Previously, it was “my research” mr “my sermon file”.) That is, a bundle […]
Like the British Methodists, the United Methodists, and the United Church of Canada I mentioned before, the United Church of Christ now has syndicated news feeds. As I mentioned before, the UUA needs this big-time.
I will now get a steady stream of UCC news delivered to my Firefox browser, via the Sage plugin every time […]
We had just driven into Seattle, fresh from the Spokane General Assembly, half-way through our all-American (with a side trip to British Columbia) 6,000 mile road trip. We called the trip the Unitariad. This was the year after my intership at All Souls Unitarian, Tulsa, where she was the youth/YA minister and neither of […]
Pat Geary just commented in a posting nearly four weeks old where I ruminated on (A) making order of worship (order of service, service sheets) easier to produce or (B) produced in a format that is more meaningful and can be used in a number of settings (the printed copy, a meaningful large-type version for […]
Remember this name: Cale J. Bradford.
He’s the Indiana judge — I am so fumin’ freakin’ mad right now I can barely type — who barred a pair of divorced parents from teaching their son Wiccan religion. You’ll see this story linked all over the blogosphere
In one of those “throw me a bone” moments, I kept […]
. . . is what Chris Erdman at Odyssey writes in reference to the flattening and deadening of the church’s mission and vocation by the ubiquitous church mission statement.
I quite agree.
Why A Church Mission Statement Is a Bad Idea
(Graham pointed it out.)
A key premise in my life is that sane, progressive people need to stay healthy, debt-free, focused, and mutually-supportive or we’re never going to make it.
Read a lot of the projects I’ve mentioned or pointed to on this blog in supportive of this goal. As a group, we need to be lean, efficient, and direct. […]
This is my one and only posting about the new Star Wars film.
A bunch of people whose blogs I read have shared a “I won’t spoil the movie, but . . . .” convention, to which I reply: Try and spoil it, but I think Lukas beat you to it. In any case, I’m not […]
My adoring fans may be interested to know I’ll be preaching June 19 at the Church of the Holy City (Swedenborgian), Washington. That’s 1611 16th St. NW, at 11:00 a.m.
Details to follow.
