Archive for April, 2007

IM me!

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

OK, for a kinda-tech writer, I have some very untechy habits. Don’t own and have never owned a cell phone, for instance. Don’t even want a Blackberry. And haven’t, until this week, IMed. (I did used to IRC a bit, and it seems much the same, but I never did it so much.)

But we instant […]

Contact me!

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

I’ve dropped listing an alternate email address in lieu of putting up a “contact me” page.

Really.

Don’t like email? You can call me. (No, not really.)

WordPress users: I used Adahas’s intouch. Note, when you add the tag, you must add it in the “code” side if you use the “visual” (WYSIWYG) editor.

UK Unitarian and Free Christians meet

Friday, April 13th, 2007

April 13. Stephen Lingwood has expanded coverage to the first two days and added photographs.

I was going to blog about church convention exhibiting tips on Easter Monday — don’t worry; it’s coming — because a couple hundred years ago the English General Baptists — later absorbed by the Unitarians — would have had their annual […]

Megachurches: be careful what you want

Friday, April 13th, 2007

A while back, Kevin D. Johnson (Reformed Catholicism) wrote about the strain megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll faces and the Faustian bargain that megachurch pastors often make. Now Driscoll just gives me the creeps, but I can imagine some would be quite jealous of what he’s accomplished.

A cautionary tale of getting what you ask for.

The next UUA president?

Friday, April 13th, 2007

The Rev. Daniel O’Connell has reprised his UUA Politics blog with a coy intimation of who he thinks is “only one serious person seriously interested in the UUA President slot” as decided by a coterie of the likely suspects. You can take out the cigars and bring in “the Old Girls” but it doesn’t cure […]

Fellowship

Friday, April 13th, 2007

I was so tied up getting Day Job (which started today!) that I failed to mention that the Ministerial Fellowship Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Association transferred my fellowship to Associate Fellowship standing.

This is good news and and an appropriate step; the alternative would have been retiring my fellowship. Wherever I end up, I need […]

Confabb.com for conferences

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Speaking of the Annual Meeting of the GAUFCC, a Day Job co-worker (first day today!) pointed out a great resource for finding conferences: Confabb. (Note the second b; a confab, as we can in the South, is a little chat or small meeting.) You can show the conferences you’ll attend and the ones where you’ll […]

The 11-story apartment

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

I’ve heard of churches being made into homes, but what do you do with a spire? If it is the privately-owned spire belonging to Christopher Wren’s Christ Church in the City of London — the rest of the church was destroyed in the Second World War; I once ate a sandwich in the garden that […]

Free Churches resource great for rationale

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Go ahead and grab the PDF of Let us pray : a handbook of selected collects and forms of prayer for the use of free churches. (London, 1897)

More than the resources, many of which are edits from the Book of Common Prayer, there’s a little introduction that explains how Dissenting churches — that is, those […]

Making life easier for web-visitors

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Elizabeth199 (Elizabeth’s Little Blog) has a good little list of, well “Things a Church Website Should Make Very Easy To Find.”  Included are bon mots of what that site should include like “What programing goes on at church - at a glance. A six paragraph explanation is not “at-a-glance.”  Refer to this list when you […]