Hubby and I went to a church today where sung was one of the — what’s the right word? — most darling hymns out there. Almost as cute as “I Sing a Song of the Saints of God” which wins the prize. Normally I’m not keen on it because it’s rarely sung with the verve […]
My favorite Linux web audio show is LUG Radio, and on the most recent episode the presenters reprised the idea that open source software users might (not must) reward development of some projects by funding software developers. So that some few people might not be stuck as suckers providing a public good, the presenters mentioned […]
The Rev. Thom “Deuterophilocrites” Belote asks if there can be an Emergent Unitarian Universalism. Would it have to be Christian?
My answer: Perhaps. Maybe. I don’t know. I doubt it.
The thing about the Emergent Church is that it seems to be a corrective responsive within some parts of Evangelical Christianity — focusing on ecclesiology — in […]
The titular lament — or one much like it — is so common that it might be the theological core the Commission on Appraisal is looking for. Since a theological core (or lack thereof) and Unitarian Universalist family and housekeeping issues make up a running theme of this blog, I won’t labor it here.
Philocrites makes […]
We’ve hit Peak Blog, and it is all downhill now. Some good bloggers have stopped, and others are considering it. Some have questions what the next step is, and everywhere the pop-popularity of blogging means it is likely to turn vulgar, both in the sense of many people doing it badly and even fewer A-list […]
The biggest limiting factor for me (ever) preaching at a Unitarian Universalist church is not theology — really — but physical distance. I refuse to get a car to get to church, whether to visit, supply, or potentially pastor. I don’t need one in the rest of my daily life. (Friends I’m visiting may ask, […]
A little good news — after many, many months of big credit card payments, I am now making payments that are greater than the once customary 5% per month. At this rate, I will pay my poor-pastorate debt in 18 more months.
It can be done. Just a little encouragement.
What is fair ministerial compensation? Things have gotten a lot better in the UUA in recent years, at least for full-time pastorates. But I still find the guidelines a bit wiggly and speaking from the pulpit side of things (and the smaller end of churches) I would want be armed with a firmer standard. […]
I’ll keep this simple — by the time an organic apple comes from California to DC, it isn’t organic anymore. It’s an apple-flavored ball of diesel fuel.
There are radical responses — the hundred mile diet, for one — but shopping at farmers’ markets and abstaining from out-of-season fruit is a better use of petroleum […]
Sociologists and grown-ups will want to take anti-nauseals before looking at FUUSE.COM. “Voice of the Revoluution” indeed — you can hear them sharpening the guillotine already. Props to ChaliceChick and a couple of others for trying to promote some sanity but their “anti-revoluutionary” defence of reasoned thinking and patience has not gone […]
