Archive for February, 2006

At root, new churches

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

I try — I really do try — to put the best face on my affiliation with the general fellowship in the Unitarian Universalist Association. At heart, I fear that whatever I do will come to naught and I will leave for some other fellowship, probably the United Church of Christ, whatever its warts.

But what […]

What the UUMA has to offer

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

After thinking some more, and talking with a couple of you I do think the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association has at least two thing to offer that brightens it in my eyes, if not suages all my concerns: health and memory.

As a Unitarian Universalist institution, and as a manifestation of the ministerial college, the UUMA […]

UUA.org loading?

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

OK gang, am I the only one having problems loading UUA.org and UUWorld.org?

I can read it at work — I checked to see if it would load — with Firefox on a Windows machine from 9 to 5. But before or after, at home, on a Linux box using Firefox or Opera I get nothing. […]

The Goth-Socialist-Unitarian-Broad Church connection

Monday, February 13th, 2006

Jim Estes (Peregrinato) has been writing about the Rev. Marcus Ramshaw, the acting vicar-chaplain of St Edward King and Martyr, Cambridge, and his Goth Eucharist outreach.

One of Ramshaw’s esteemed predecessors is F. D. Maurice, whom I wrote about last year.  The son of a Unitarian minister, this Maurice was known as a major proponant of […]

Report of the Commission of Unity and Comity (1929)

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

Another document. Note the stated rationale for including Unitarians.

Report of the Commission on Comity and Unity (1929)

On the General Convention page of the LEADER for March 3, 1928 appeared an article by the Chairman of the Commission on the “Doings of the Commission on Comity and Unity” since the Hartford Convention. It covered two important […]

Comity and Unity enacting resolution and other resolutions from the 1922 General Convention

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

This whole Comity and Unity matter interests me. I’m going through my photostats of 1920s Universalist General Convention official papers and will pull out the reports related to these. I think I found the report that got the ball rolling, or at least an early force. This recasts the “proposed Universalist-Congregationalist” merger more in terms […]

Obligatory snow picture

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

Looking south from my apartment.

Report of the Commission on Comity and Unity (1927)

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

A rather impressive document, projecting an alternate outcome for the Universalists and a brief formulation of liberal Christianity.

12 February. Time Magazine ran an article on this. “Comity” (28 Feb 1927).

Report of the Commission on Comity and Unity Universalist General Convention Yearbook 1927, p 20-22

As the Commission on Comity and Church Unity enters upon the study […]

1925 Universalist General Convention constitution and bylaws, part 4

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

OK, that went faster than I thought. Here is the document, concluded.

1925 Universalist General Convention constitution and bylaws, part 3

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

Part three. Again, the numbers and margins are being generated automatically, and badly. Plus there was a serious error in the original text — lines all out of order, and I’ve [sic] marked these. If you like a word puzzle and want to tease the role of the Board of Trustees into the right order […]