Archive for February, 2007

Treasure-trove of Universalist texts at Google, listed

Monday, February 5th, 2007

Those who enjoy Google Books know that you can read the whole text of books that have fallen into the public domain, scanned from some of the world’s leading libraries, and can download many of these in the PDF format.

Those who read this blog may know I have an expensive, bulky and physically heavy collection […]

Coolest UU Linux news/recording the church service

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

In continuing to promote Linux for church use, I wanted to find an inspiring story for Unitarian Universalist and United Church Christians. Alas, the latter group didn’t produce much.

Honorable mention. I suppose the most ubiquitous use of Linux for Unitarian Universalists is UUA.org itself, which (in 2004 anyway) had one Windows server and two Linux […]

Reviewing UUA numbers: vanishing congregations

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

Rather than making a big report about UUA certification numbers, I’ll make observations as I find patterns in the data.

62 congregations that reported last year for 2005 did not certify this year, which seems high. This is mostly a mix of federated churches, the smallest churches, and Canadian congregations (only 9 certified this year) who […]

Two primers to download

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

Recently, I’ve found — or was I directed in other blogs; I forget — two primers on environment-related subject that you can download as a PDF file. I think they’re better than average in their classes.

The Australian Government’s Green Office Guide makes the case for readers who use electronic and paper-consuming [...]

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