Archive for March, 2006

Don’t let expensive software stifle your church’s mission

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

I can’t speak to everything Donner Lohnes, a member of Unitarian Universalists of Puerto Rico, mentions in his comment — and do read it if you you are a seminarian or care about new churches in the UUA — but I can address one thing he notes:

We can’t afford the $200 for Pagemaker and […]

Old Universalist genre has legs

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

Mid- to late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Universalists were masters of their own eclectic genre of publications: miscellanies and handbooks. To this I will add information rich directories and handbooks. These would blend (in no particular order of importance)

Polity introductions
Model bylaws
Denominational history introductions

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NYT on seminarians

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

Hubby brought this New York Times article to my attention. Thought y’all’d be interested.

Students Flock to Seminaries, but Fewer See Pulpit in Future

It also means . . .

Friday, March 17th, 2006

(on a personal note) that Hubby and I had our first (blind) date five years ago tonight.

Or, as we’ve been known to say about the other, “I ordered him on the Internet.”

St. Patrick’s Day means . . .

Friday, March 17th, 2006

I’ll point my readers to St. Patrick’s Breastplate.

Last year’s article, with the full text

Bloggers in DC? at Revival?

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

So, Philo is scaring up interest in another Boston-area blogger picnic and he’s been asked about a meet-up at General Assembly.

Well, is there enough interest among DC-area bloggers and readers to have an event here?

Also, since it seemed for a while (now past) that blogging was some kind of UU Christian conspiracy, it seems worthwhile […]

The interdependent clause?

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

I wonder what my copy-editing Hubby would make of this lede (Sonja L. Cohen “Talking about sex, preaching politics, and more” UU World, March 16) –

Churches are often uncomfortable talking about sex, which is why the First Evangelical Free Church in Rockford, Illinois, is hosting a two-day youth conference designed to deal frankly with the […]

Thinking small

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

Unlike a lot of office workers, and even some at Day Job, I have a private office with a door that closes. It isn’t big, but it is all mine, and when the hallway gets noisy I can close the door. It is big enough for an impromptu meeting, or if I have to train […]

The big project?

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

People in general, Unitarian Universalists included, and bloggers in particular goad one another and others into certain actions. Sort of a continual “do this, it’s a good idea” drive. This makes sense, because very often the appeal includes access to information, which is a way of cultivating wealth and power.

But there aren’t any big projects […]

UU faith survey

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

The Rev. Daniel Chesney Kanter, formerly an associate at King’s Chapel I think, is surveying Unitarian Universalists at www.uufaithsurvey.org.