If you want to write at the UU Church Planting wiki
Thursday, May 15th, 2008Let me know in the comments or through the contact page. It seems I need to add writers. Bummer.
Archive for May, 2008
Hurrah, California!
Thursday, May 15th, 2008Just got back from a lunch with Fr. Chris Tessone (Even the Devils Believe) — with whom else can I talk about LaTeX and typesetting Gregorian chant? — to discover that the California Supreme Court has overturned the ban on same-sex marriage and without punting it back to the legislature. The same legislature you’ll recall […]
Embed a Google document as form in site or blog
Thursday, May 15th, 2008Thanks to J.W. for pointing out a Google Docs new tool that allows forms to be embedded in sites. Comments at the official Google Docs blog suggest not all is well, but it should be useful for adding — at the very least — a straw poll capacity to blogs or an initial level of […]
Emerging Kirk
Thursday, May 15th, 2008Of course, all this Unitarian Universalist Association emerging congregation talk belies another idea of an emerging church: one that challenges structures that don’t work. We’re a pretty conservative group when it comes to structures. Even resorting to a decades-old model as another option — the Fellowship movement — isn’t free of controversy. Kinda sad.
From […]
For a new church, get EIN online
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008In my mind’s eye, I imagine a new congregation organizing team having working meeting with a laptop and an Internet connection knocking out all manner of little tasks that once took more time and effort.
A new church in the United States is going to need an Employee Identification Number to hire anyone or open a […]
Offering a free subdomain for emerging congregations
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008To be listed as an emerging congregation at UUA.org, “the group should have either a meeting address or working website or both.”
Hmm. One can be almost free of charge, with community support to develop and maintain and is an important communications and resources channel; the other is costly, difficult to acquire and maintain and might […]
EmergingUU.org
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Chris Walton (Philocrites) asks:
Have you seen the Emerging UU Congregational Resources website? It’s a joint project of the Central Midwest and Pacific Northwest districts.
I hadn’t — hereafter I’ll refer to it by the more memorable EmergingUU.org — so gave it a look.
Funny, but I had never heard of it, so I’m thinking it’s in a […]
Church-planters list for interested persons
Monday, May 12th, 2008The Church-planters mailing list, after a bout of listlessness (get it?), is stirring back to life. To join, click here. (You need not be a Unitarian Universalist, just civil and interested.)
More on FOSS for transit
Monday, May 12th, 2008I put my last post on free and open source software for transit systems out as a lifeboat, thinking it would bob on the waves of the Internet until someone — far from now — might read the post and wonder. I didn’t think I’d get a reply so quickly.
So I’ve looked further for options.
I […]
In orbit
Sunday, May 11th, 2008I mentioned that there are a number of Unitarian Universalist congregations that are not members of the Unitarian Universalist Association but neither are they
declared to be “emerging” with the goal of joining the UUA, really dormant or inactive; in essence a “submerged congregation,” independent, which includes some former members of the Universalist Church of America, “half-federated” with a […]
