I’m really quite happy with my blog posts from March 2006, when I focused on resource development.
Helping small non-Christian congregations: 2. Sunday by Sunday
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
It’s tempting for the worship committee (or like) of small congregations without a regular preacher to act like talent scout for a lyceum series. (I’ve seen this among non-Unitarian [...]
Like two other bloggers, I am concerned about the tone of the reportage of the Ministerial Fellowship Committee rule change [later. it has been altered] but even more about the subtle power shift it assumes. Ministers look more like employees and the congregations look more like an at-will employer, which might be a bit paranoid [...]
Funny what you’ll find when you look. A couple of weeks ago, I was reading old Universalist General Convention minutes, available at Google Books. The proceedings of the 1874 convention, in New York City, were particularly interesting.
The sixty-seven delegates served a different role than our General Assembly delegates today. For one thing, the General [...]
All I have to get a sense of General Assembly this year is the official media, official news and bloggers. Yet I get a sense — unqualified and unquantified — that something is missing. Perhaps paler or less enriched would be more descriptive. Or at least less frantic.
So instead of speculating, I’ll ask. For those [...]
Now that I have the order of service in an OpenOffice.org Writer document with some style added, we can break it up and add some fields.
Personalized information
If you installed OpenOffice.org like I suggested in my “Helping Lower Walnut: office suite” post, you would have filled in some user data. (I recommend the name of the [...]
Still not thrilled with using a proprietary media format, but first things first. I got it to work. With wifi no less. (And you get to see what my desktop looks like.)
Now, how did I do it? Not entirely sure.
I am using VLC — the Swiss Army knife of media players; available for all the [...]
(Please read to the end; I have something to ask you.)
UU Mom was looking to watch tonight’s opening session of the Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly (UUA GA) online, but it is only available in a proprietary Windows format. She noted:
It would be nice if they’d use an Open Source program. We missed part of [...]
One of the most frustrating, time-consuming tasks I had when I was in parish ministry was getting the order of service printed right. Not written, but printed. Either I did it myself or with an assistant with rounds of edits. And still there’d be typos or skewed margins. I’m working up a robust solution and [...]
Looking back, I’m quite proud of my writing in February 2006. Quite a bit about on the practice of worship and several pages of hard-to-find transcribed Universalist General Convention documents.
Church websites should have details for Sunday servers
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
I was reading through the list of churches of the Church of England, Diocese of Europe, [...]
Can you be free to think when you subsume another’s thoughts? When the structures of that thought literally belongs to someone else? When the model excludes all others?
That’s my problem with the Carver Model, which has taken the Unitarian Universalist ecosphere by storm. I choke every time I come to one of its registered trademarks [...]
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