Archive for July, 2006

IRC to meet, tips

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

A nice feature of the Progressive Faith Blog Con was the ability to follow what went along on IRC: Internet Relay Chat. (I wish someone had said the IRC logs were being projected into the meeting hall, or I might have been a tad less informal.)

I’ve written before on the opportunities available for dispersed groups […]

Orkneys, ho!

Monday, July 17th, 2006

Stephen Lingwood’s reportage of a new Unitarian chapel and retreat center in the Orkney Islands appeals to me in a lot of ways.

While this would be the most northerly outpost for Unitarianism in the British Isles, the Unitarian Unitarian Fellowship of Fairbanks (Alaska) is father north, and perhaps too the small group in St. Petersburg. […]

UCC getting the Universalists anyway

Monday, July 17th, 2006

That’s a bit tongue in cheek. I’m recalling the 1920s proposed merger of the Congregational churches and the Universalist Church. The Universalists got cold feet at what would have been a virtual absorption. The Congos went to merge with the “Christians” (a part of the American movement that includes the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)) […]

Robot, come again

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

A bit more for the robots. Human beings can ignore these.

Tracking UUA growth, easier

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

One for the UCC, now one for the UUA . . . .

For the last three years, I’ve been using certification numbers to track the growth of UUA member churches. (Thom Belote did more with it this year.) It isn’t easy to hash HTML into a clean spreadsheet, but now there’s no more need. Turns […]

Wikipedia: Associations of the United Church of Christ

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

I’ve made a page on Wikipedia listing those associations of the United Church of Christ I could find. I know it is incomplete, so if you see an error please correct it.

Associations of the United Church of Christ (Wikipedia)

Progressive Faith Con in full swing

Saturday, July 15th, 2006

Greetings to those who could go to New Jersey for the first (hope not last) Progressive Faith Con. The usual suspects are blogging, links from the Con blog.

I wish I was there, but for those who can’t be, there is an IRC channel open. Quiet right now.

Here, robot

Saturday, July 15th, 2006

I think the Google robot combed over my domains to see which pages are new and which are lost. The switch-over threw a bunch of “not found” errors, and so I’m putting links to the “not found” pages below the fold. Even some of these don’t work, but it’ll be quite a time-suck to get […]

First steps to a church planting consciousness

Saturday, July 15th, 2006

Unlike Clyde and more like Tom, I think there is already enough money for helping new churches form, and that forming a church formation foundation is the kind of work that deflects attention from what will actually get new church started. The bigger issues with Unitarian Universalist church planting are attitudinal.

Tom outlines a number of […]

UCC alphabet soup

Friday, July 14th, 2006

I draw the following list of entity names and acronyms (or initialism, if you like) from the of the last UCC General Synod handbook, under the heading “United Church of Christ abbreviations.” (Yes, I know they aren’t abbreviations. Hmm.)

I thought I should learn these and what each entity stands for. Actually, the handbook looks like […]