When all those little Luthers, Calvins, Zwinglis, Bullingers and Methanthons — Knoxes? Perhaps. but not Cramners — come to your doors tonight, you might give them a tract with the caramel cod. Or perhaps a copy of the Ninety-five Theses.
Reformation Day is a toughy for ecumenically minded Protestants: honor the heritage or downplay the split? [...]
I’m looking for texts used in church orders of service, so feel free to add variations.
Grace Reformed Church, UCC, Washington has printed in its worship bulletin a familiar injunction: “Kindly maintain a reverent silence prior to Worship Service. Thank you.” Some Unitarian Universalist churches make a oblique request by quoting Emerson, how he loved the [...]
Well, I’ve made another major step United Church of Christ-ward by joining Grace Reformed Church, UCC, Washington this morning. I have the certificate of membership and box of offering envelopes to prove it.
The service, after the announcements, had the construction of a confirmation which the Reformed churches historically retained. (No kneeling, though.) I made a [...]
The Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship Revival conference begins next Thursday at Fourth Universalist Church, New York. Here’s a picture of 4th U.
I didn’t take this photo. “wallyg” did and thank you. I am using it because wallyg licensed its use under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license, outlined here. This is the least restrictive of [...]
As I mentioned before, I think that a better use of time for churchly open-source software users than specialized Linux distros is making templates that open-source software, like OpenOffice.org, can use.
But I have a hard time getting my head around what kind and range of information a small church need to gather, and which [...]
How did I get over fifty categories? I’m cleaning these up, mainly by consolidating those which were always too specific. There will be a single “Universalism” and “Unitarian Universalist Association” category. Cleaning up means adding some posts to more recently added categories: “religious architecture” is a beneficiary here.
But why categorize? Because, among other reasons, Technorati [...]
I found two resources to bookmark if you are in pastoral ministry or are taking care of someone who may soon die.
Consumerist has an article today about taking care of the financial matters of the deceased. Not easy stuff, but better to be prepared. “HOWTO: Handle Closing Dead People’s Accounts”
Navy member? I found a [...]
I suppose I should wrap this up from my end, unless there are others who would like to talk about laptops. My thanks to Michelle Murrain for helping by participating. (Her last post on this thread.)
I think a church or non-profit worker would need, at minimum, OpenOffice.org office suite (from which you can also query [...]
Back in July and August, I started working through what would make a robust, easy to administer and attractive church website for religious congregations using WordPress and a theme template released under the liberal GNU public license. But I didn’t get very far, which is a shame since it is a worthwhile project.
I’ll see if [...]
I was walking from my apartment to the public library when, passing Franklin Square, I saw a familiar-looking clergywoman behind a card table with a sign that read “Street Church. Tuesday 1:00 p.m.” You know that piqued my interest. And it was nearly one o’clock.
I detoured to get a closer look I even tried to [...]
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