When I added Drupal — a content management system — to UniversalistChurch.net, it obscured a number of useful files, including the 1894 Universalist Book of Prayer. A couple of comments by some friends has prompted me to get the previous resources back up (through the Drupal interface, as I had intended) and I just finished […]
My favorite British bloggers all went to Greenbelt, the famous “youth festival, music festival, political festival, evangelical festival, development festival, broke festival, harvest festival” this year held in Cheltenham. It seems to be a part of the background radiation for Christians in the UK, but almost completely unknown here.
I wish we in the United States […]
“Ordination season” is coming up, and a bunch of clergy who might not otherwise gown will gown, and a bunch of ordinands will get getting gifts, gowns included. A thought about maintaining your vesture.
I own two gowns — one too many in retrospect — and the older is about eleven or twelve years old. I […]
About five years ago, I got a small cache of the then brand-new book European Perspectives on Communion because there was at that time no convenient way to order them from Northern Ireland. A pair of NSPCI ministers were visiting the area and they agreed to bring some along. We were going to meet but […]
I know there are churches — some very old churches included — that have businesses that support their ministries. Here’s a remarkable example. I guess if you stick around long enough you can collect businesses into your portfolio, the resources to support businesses, or at least rent out bits of the building. This is quite […]
I am not a big fan of anonymous blogging and even less a fan of anonymous commenting. Masks make bad neighbors. There’s a reason why they’re illegal to wear in Georgia.
If you comment here, use — at the very least — a real email address. Nobody but me will see it and sometimes I’ve had […]
The Human Rights Campaign — the largest US lesbian, bi, trans and gay organization for civil rights; headquartered in my neighborhood, by the way — has started up a Revised Common lectionary-based resource, as reported by the United Church of Christ News (link):
The Human Rights Campaign has launched a weekly online preaching resource to provide […]
The more emphasis a church places on edification (as opposed to sacramental mediation or even social service) the longer the readings seem to get. This sometimes works if you learn by hearing (I don’t) and if someone has taken great pains to make a long lesson really — to draw a metaphor from advertizing — […]
How would one conduct a Unitarian worship service using a Victorian-era (1877) Christian rite, in a historically appropriate way? This is the question asked in one of those confidential mailing lists I subscribe to. I won’t say which list, or where such a service might take place. It doesn’t really matter since this could happen […]
Last year, I reviewed the way the Mennonite Church USA recommended ministerial compensation, and I was reasonably pleased because it seems more straightforward than the way Unitarian Universalists do, even under the most recent revisions. Not more remunerative necessarily, but easier for all to understand. But even the Mennonites recognized that the variances that come […]
