1925 Universalist General Convention constitution and bylaws, part 2
Thursday, February 9th, 2006The second installment, next comes the by-laws. The numbering is automatic, and tends to be goofy, so they may not be correct.
Archive for February, 2006
No (more?) Mr. Nice Guy
Thursday, February 9th, 2006Make that no more Rev. Mr. Nice Guy. I’ll continue to hammer on with what’s wrong in our general fellowship.
There’s been some — and shall be more — action by bloggers I respect to talk about what they love about Unitarian Universalism now that what they don’t love about Unitarian Universalism has been aired. I […]
Happy archive memories (and church supplies)
Wednesday, February 8th, 2006Some of my happiest memories as a child was with my father at the National Archives. Archival boxes — Hollinger boxes — are to me what baseball gloves or fishing poles to others. I wrote about these before but I now have a photo. Good prices, and you can buy single boxes for a small […]
A little tool I’d like to use at GA
Wednesday, February 8th, 2006OK, this won’t mean much to many, but it is a product that I’d like to see more use of because it would be a light-weight way to share info at settings like GA. And without paper.
Did you see the story of the New Orleans health fair story on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer […]
1925 Universalist General Convention constitution and bylaws, part 1
Wednesday, February 8th, 2006A historical document, which I’ll migrate to the main site one of these days. Note the US Constitution-like preamble and the way that delegates are named, which explains the ministerial voting rights at General Assembly today. Note also the prevailing non-home-rule attitude towards the District of Columbia (which could never have its own State Convention, […]
Mini-fix UUism: Multiple domains and distributed servers
Wednesday, February 8th, 2006As the owner of unitarianuniversalist.org, I’ve previously expressed my confusion of why the UUA administration doesn’t buy other domains that it can use to tease apart its huge body of resources. So far there’s uuworld.org and there was the paranoic buy-up of domains during the American Unitarian Association/Conference bruhaha. (Which have all since lapsed.) At […]
My take on the certification numbers
Tuesday, February 7th, 2006The Rev. Thom Belote has been writing about growth numbers following the UUA member congregation certification. I have a different take than he, though I should add the more years I do this the less I learn and the more I’m inclined to use my intuition. Both suggest the UUA isn’t growing enough to stave […]
Council of Christian Churches meets in April
Tuesday, February 7th, 2006The Council of Christian Churches within the Unitarian Universalist Association will have its next Convocation on April 2, 2006, at the Parish House of King’s Chapel, 64 Beacon Street, Boston.
Contact King’s Chapel for details.
See their snazzy new website.
Why I don’t see a monastery working
Monday, February 6th, 2006Recently, one proposed solution to the ills that have befallen Unitarian Universalism is forming a monastery, or more than one. An odd choice I thought, as we derive from Protestantism, which historically has valued the family over the monastery as the venue of spiritual development. I’m reading Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great […]
Dial 9 to get out: a reasonable PBX solution for churches
Sunday, February 5th, 2006I normally write about the technical needs of small churches, but one resource has been hot, hot, hot in Linux and Open Source circles for the last few months is Asterisk PBX. A PXB is a “private branch exchange” — the kind of “dial nine to get out” and voicemail system that almost anyone in […]
