Archive for June, 2007

Independent voices?

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

So, I take it from the lacuna in the online UU World article about which independent affiliate organizations were approved that the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship was not. (I have it on good authority that the other Christian organization, The Magi Network, did not apply for renewal from the concern that it would not be […]

Best links for June 29

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Well, best for me, but I know some of you will like them too.

Michelle Murrain, writing from her Zen and the art of Nonprofit Technology blog, points out how the United States Social Forum is running on free and open source software. Fabu. Drupal and Linux (Ubuntu and Debian)  love [...]

Request: party planning checklist

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Dear ones — does anyone have a shopping and check list for planning a reception — say for fifty adults — that you would be willing to share with me?

La la la la la la, la la la la la la la

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

If you’re a scant few years on either side of 40 and watched a lot of  public television as a child, you might remember a Spanish-English bilingual kids’ show called Villa Alegre.

Memory of it has been all but swallowed up but the title theme has been haunting me for years.

But Madre de Dios some good […]

Service of the Silent Tradition

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Later. Someone who outgeeked emailed me to check — in so many words — if I had all the Microsoft codecs (coders/decoder) installed. I thought I had, but hadn’t. Bad Linux user. Automatix to the rescue. The Windows feed works clear as can be. (Will have to work on getting an open-source feed codec one […]

I thought I would do better

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

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Hat tip: Dave “84%” Warnock (42)

Skills I want: getting event insurance

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Has anyone had experience getting event liability insurance (for a nonprofit)?

GA 2007: Service of the Living Tradition

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Later still. I was blogging like a fiend during GA, only to drag afterwards. I thought I would promote this one entry — the most read and originally published June 21 to the top for reconsideration.

Later. Another fragment came through: the end of the Clarke Wells liturgical element — people were always confusing me for […]

New Universalism message board

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Brian Smith (The Beautiful Heresy) has started a universal salvation message board at http://euniversalism.forum5.com/index.php. Do take a look.

Independent affiliates or not? The other shoe

Monday, June 25th, 2007

The second session of the June Board of Trustees meeting has been over — if the schedule was followed — for about three hours. Any news about the independent affiliate organizations vote?


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