CiviCRM looks like a great constituent relationship management which when matched with Drupal (which I use at UniversalistChurch.net) becomes CivicSpace, the Internet legacy of the Howard Dean campaign. Wikipedia uses it to raise money; that’s what sold me on it and I hope to learn it asap. Indeed, I want to do something that could [...]
I got this email today. (Reader: I tried to write you back but my email to you bounced back.) Can you tell if if the Unitarian’s have a Liturgy? with a communion rite? if so where might I find it? Sure, I’ll help. I’m not sure if you mean Unitarians historically or globally, or contemporary [...]
Tipped off by the Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland website: For those with access to Irish (RTE) Television reception, please note that there will be a television programme on Sunday 25th February featuring Rev. Chris Hudson, Minister of All Souls’ Church, Belfast. The half-hour programme is entitled “The Preacher” and is scheduled to start at [...]
The Rev. Tom Gilbert left a comment a few days ago — how is it I get as many or more Independent Sacramental/Catholic readers as Unitarian Universalists? — and I went to his blog Sacerdos in Aeternum (“A priest forever” I’m guessing) and read some of his past entries. In a recent entry, he points [...]
The news from Tanzania, with respect to the Anglican primates, doesn’t bode well. Whose the winner? This freechurchman thinks its the bishops. At every turn, you would think that the national churches or dioceses are the bishops because the debate is cast in terms of what bishops do, don’t do, fail to do, say or [...]
The UU Enforcer has started a second blog The Tithingman, of old images of Unitarian and Universalist church and related buildings. Fab! Share this article Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1795′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
My mind turned this weekend towards Detroit, following an article in the Washington Post (“Urban Retreat,” by Philip Kennicott, 17 February 2007) describing an exhibit that focuses on shrinking cities, including the Motor City. I am fascinated about the “ghetto palms” which also infest Washington, D.C. (Wouldn’t they make, I wonder, an appropriately contextualized decoration [...]
The Washington Post reported today the story of Army chaplain Don Larson, who seems to be the victim of religious discrimination in transferring his credentials from a Pentecostal body to a Wiccan one, and now he’s out of the chaplain corps. There are a few troubling points here. First, Larson’s wildly pluralistic faith habits — [...]
Scattered thoughts: Even if you have an Ash Wednesday tradition, unless your church is large and in a pedestrian-centered district, midday services will drum up tiny congregations. Early morning and evening services are more appropriate, and I’m betting on the latter. Don’t fetishize the palm ash. Unless you already make your own bread, clothes and [...]
I got a call and email from a colleague I respect asking about Ash Wednesday services. Said colleague is Unitarian Universalist, is not Christian and is not hostile (indeed, empathetic) to Christianity. I thought I would make my reflections public, because such mutual inquiries can go far into good practices about religiously specific observances. About [...]
