Request: Really clever orders of worship
Thursday, September 13th, 2007Has anyone seen (or better, produced) really clever orders of worship (service) — feel free to brag with some detail, and include a link if it exists somewhere on the Web.
Archive for September, 2007
Terms as the United Church of Canada defines them
Thursday, September 13th, 2007After looking at some of the polity definitions from the Uniting Church of Australia, I thought I would look at the United Church of Canada’s polity documents, mainly drawn from the organic Basis of Union, with the paragraph numbers before each. The Methodist (pastoral charge as basic unit of organization) and Presbyterian (the powers and […]
Online theological education
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007Gordon-Conwell, one of the more sensible Evangelical seminaries, has a free online “seminary level” theological education program which can lead to a certificate. Very interesting for many reasons, not the least of which is that it gives unsure learners a better idea if seminary is the right path. Or it fills a need for higher-level […]
Happy new millenium
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007It’s the year 2000 in Ethiopia, according to their traditional calendar. The government is making much of it. That seems a happier even to mark today than other options. While Washington has some of the best Ethiopian restaurants in the diaspora, I’ll celebrate quietly at home, listening to chants. Or something like that.
BBC coverage
Wikipedia article on […]
Anita Roddick, 1942-2007
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop chain of personal care goods, died yesterday in Chicester, England at age 64. I want to remember her because in the 1970s, she was one of the first persons to make sure the materials used to manufacture her goods were fair to the upstream workers and were not […]
GA 2008: which are the official hotels?
Monday, September 10th, 2007ChaliceChick has several good things to say to and about the independent affiliates situation, some of which also I’ve commended in my own way here or to colleagues privately.
Key among these is a deliberate effort to take advantage of General Assembly as the marketplace it is, and for organizations to lever this critical mass by […]
Terms as the Uniting Church of Australia defines them
Monday, September 10th, 2007From paragraph three of the Uniting Church of Australia constitution. A couple of interesting concepts, simply described. Not all would work with Unitarian Universalists, and the UUA shouldn’t come up with a glossary including terms like these — their polity is presbyerial — but I think a congregation reasonably should, to help clarify terms and […]
Scalability and extensibility for churches
Sunday, September 9th, 2007Two definitions, grabbed from Wikipedia today (because of its liberal license):
In telecommunications and software engineering, scalability is a desirable property of a system, a network, or a process, which indicates its ability to either handle growing amounts of work in a graceful manner, or to be readily enlarged.
In software engineering, extensibility (sometimes confused with forward […]
Uniting Church of Australia “patrol ministry”
Sunday, September 9th, 2007I’m looking at some major Christian united-uniting churches to see how they define church membership and turned to the ever-interesting Uniting Church of Australia. More about that later; I found something even more interesting.
As you may know, the Australian interior is multi-ethnic but very thinly populated, making for special social accommodations — like radio schools […]
Public domain chalice logo to use and share
Saturday, September 8th, 2007I’m struck how — to the best of my knowledge — there is no public domain flaming chalice logo for Unitarian Universalists (or anyone else) to use, share or modify, and certainly none that are size-independent vector graphics.
While I’m no graphic designer, and my work has rough parts, I am releasing into the public domain […]
