How did I miss this video? Looks like it’s a serious ministry outreach, if serious is quite the right word. HT: Jim B. Share this article Hide Sites $$(‘div.d3420′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
In brief, I’ll see if “Karmic Koala” — the soon-to-be-released version of Ubuntu Linux — passes the ease-of-use test for novices. There are conflicting reports, but either way I’m keen to see the changes. Here’s one video report from the BBC. Ubuntu Share this article Hide Sites $$(‘div.d3415′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
Yes, it’s a bit rude and tons of people have seen this. But it’s Sarah Silverman and I totally heart her. And I love where she goes with respect to church wealth. And not just — by implication — the biggest owners. Share this article Hide Sites $$(‘div.d3412′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
A valuable lecture I saw in person this spring at the Nonprofit Technology Conference from Eben Moglen, the executive director of the Software Freedom Law Center. Consider the role access to information has for the liberation of human beings. This dovetails neatly with the Universalist assertion of the role of understanding in overcoming fear and [...]
The New York Times ran a story — on June 15, 1874 — about the history of Universalism in that city, which can be read as a PDF in the newspaper’s archives. Interesting stuff, including the intersection of radical Universalist minister Abner Kneeland with Tammany Hall — the building, at least. Indeed, in the telling [...]
I was thinking about the steps a new church might take to get established, including whether or not to apply for recognition of non-profit status as a 501(c)(3) organization. Casting around, I discovered there are IRS online trainings, including one about 18 minutes long about applying for nonprofit status. I’d grade them a B-minus, but [...]
I’ll be wrapping up my little magazine The Liberal Christian at the end of this month. If you have a article or news note you’d like to submit, please send it to me at editor@liberalchristian.net. Thanks – Share this article Hide Sites $$(‘div.d3406′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
Ann Lee Bressler’s Universalist Movement in America, 1770-1880 is one of the finest works on the subjects I know. This thought, from page 42, is vital to our understanding of the movement — as a social movement — in conjunction with Unitarianism. The rise of restorationism during the second quarter of the [nineteenth] century helped [...]
