Category Archives: Bloggers

If you’re interested in church social media . . .

Or manage a church website or some such, be sure to read (and subscribe to the feed of) Unitarian Communications, advice from the Unitarian and Free Christian media office. Good stuff.
Note: my first time blogging from a plane!

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The original Twitter, Unitarian Universalist version

For all my complaints about the nonsense that percolates among Unitarian Universalists (and church people generally), I have always loved the Wayside Community Pulpit. These posters, printed with thoughtful and pithy quotations, were the perfect complement to the automobile age. They were Twitter (or Identi.ca) before the age of the Internet, much less microblogging. I [...]

Please remember Tim Jensen in prayer

According to his brother Erik, he died yesterday (Sunday) morning.
He was a minister (most recently at Portland, Maine) but perhaps known equally as well in Unitarian Universalist circles as a blogger. I think of him in that generation of Christian ministers that immediately preceded my own, and who held on when there didn’t seem much [...]

Other coverage of UUCF Revival?

I see that UUCF Executive Directory Ron Robinson has blogged about the UUCF’s Revival Conference in Tulsa.
But I can’t see that anyone else present has. (I don’t know who’s there.) Nor do I know of any so-called hashtags (for example, #uucfrevival09) used to identify photos, microblog posts (like those found on Twitter or Identi.ca) or [...]

Obligatory weightloss resolution

Graham (and comment team) at Leaving Munster and Brian at The Beautiful Heresy — two religion bloggers I follow — have announced their weight-gain agita and a resolution to loose the same.
Last year was good for weight loss: I have kept off more than thirty pounds, but yesterday’s weigh-in shows I have [...]

“Calling Ministers” blog

The new Calling Ministers blog gives me some hope. Examining discrete pieces of church life from a particular, non-bureaucratic voice — here, as subtitled “Examining and interviewing for UU ministry” — is where blogging is ideal contribution, and this is an area of particular, overlooked concern.
I look forward to many more entries.

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Communion Service, Cambridge

British Unitarian minister and blogger (CAUTE) Andrew Brown announces the Christmas Eve service at his church, the Memorial Church (Unitarian), Cambridge.
You may download PDFs of the Christmas service, within which communion service takes place. I scratched my head in a couple of places. First, I’m prone to worry when someone takes the Universalist ministerial [...]

My new blog on plastic use reduction

I’m hoping to hone this blog and other interests by giving them distinct voices. For instance, I suspect an Ubuntu Linux, or perhaps a more general free and open source software blog is coming.
But for now, I’m working on my growing interest in reducing the use of plastics. See the details there –
Low Plastic

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Before the blog, the log

Back when I was in my Clinical Pastoral Education unit — which all candidates for Unitarian Universalist ministerial fellowship must complete — the on-call hospital chaplains recorded rounds, deaths and pastoral care issues in a large log book in the Pastoral Care office. A tight running log of the pastoral care life of the hospital. [...]

A blog mirror

I have an odd set of interests, or odd enough to seem distinct. But the Internet is a big non-place and finding a parallel is inevitable.
I’m terribly fond of a blog — UbuntuCat — described as “Random musings from the radical feminist Christian antiracist left – some having to do with Ubuntu.” If you [...]