I was a childhood nominal Lutheran. LCA Lutheran. The people who brought you Davey and Goliath. The people who provided my life insurance policy, first through Lutheran Brotherhood, and now its with-the-Missouri-Synod successor, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. I like reading the Thrivent Magazine I get.
It has some church news. I noted the news of the [...]
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Lutherans without a building; keeping mission
Technology I’m not following
I’ve been an advocate for pushing Unitarian Universalists in technology for more than a decade now, going back to the use of Gopher and mailing lists, through the web, to PDAs and blogs, and now wikis and who-knows-what. A bunch of us did: Unitarian Universalists are relatively early-acquirers of new technology, so I write on, [...]
Part of my design-savings-diet-technology plan
I want a flat screen monitor at home to streamline my desk, but there’s no way I’m going to charge it. Savings and debt-reduction are big goals. So is improving the look of our apartment. Plus loosing some weight. (Nine pounds lost since 3 January, by the way.)
I’ve made a deal with myself.
Each time I [...]
Pearlbear and many others
Michelle Murrain (Pearlbear) has received word from her United Church of Christ conference, meaning in so many words that “she’s leaving.” Not suggest even a hint of self-pity, accusation, or anger. It sounds like the right idea, and not too long ago, I thought about it, too. Goodness knows the slightly older UU Christian clergy [...]
Open Source Religious Resources is go!
I like the Tensegrities blog a lot. And then the news! Oh, happy day!
A brand new project, just the kind of thing I’ve been hoping for and preaching.
Open Source Religious Resources
This page is the first, very initial web home for a new project that seeks to create a webspace for sharing and developing religious resources [...]
Progressive Christian Witness site
Hat tip to Tensegrities for this link to Progressive Christian Witness a new online ministry of the Pacific School of Religion.
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Bad, if candid, news from the Disciples
The last couple of weeks have been less than sunny for Unitarian Universalist bloggers, as a good number have responded to ChaliceChick’s appeal to fix Unitarian Universalism. I think it is a good corrective to the all-sunshine, all-the-time attitiude that makes hurt feelings, miscommunication, and unfulfilled hopes (I’m thinking of the bruhaha involving some of [...]
Not even a whole room Sunday School
I know the term “Sunday School” is deprecated in some areas, but the image of the “one room Sunday School” is very evocative of the kind of childhood faith development program a lot of little churches — or demographically old churches — have, whatever their denomination. But what if you’re in a church — except [...]
ChaliceChick’s fixing UUA campaign and my thoughts
I’m sorry to say that — apart from an exercise in airing grievances — the fixing the UUA campaign didn’t say much. I think I’m with Steve Caldwell (or what he intimates at least) that first reforms should not depend on UUA Bylaws changes. I’m also not keen on proposing as a reform platform — [...]
Federated and community?
Later. Some revisions made.
There are two kinds of church with membership in the UUA that come across as odd to those unfamiliar with the concept: federated churches and multi-denominational community churches. Because they have multiple loyalties, they have a reputation to being aloof to denominations, making them that much less visible to those whose cares [...]
