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 the 'Conceiving the church' Category
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.)
How many congregations are emerging?
Friday, May 9th, 2008I’m going to take a couple of days to consider the issue of congregational growth in the Unitarian Universalist Association.
So I asked myself: How many emerging congregations — organizations in formation and those (once covenanted) that plan to join the Unitarian Universalist Association — are there? Their number is a good indicator of the UUA’s […]
Last call for church planting mailing list
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008If you want to join a church planter’s (email) mailing list, contact me through the Contact page to join in the pre-launch phase.
Why the primaries remind me of church
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008Let me start by saying I don’t attend worship these days. I went to Christmas Eve services, but before that I can’t recall when. It is hard to stir me into the shower and into tidy clothes to face a service that’s tedious, antiquated, self-serving, mindless, frantic, implicitly homophobic or any of the other faults […]
NYT article on Jewish worship groups
Friday, November 30th, 2007The more I read about what younger Jews are doing to revitalize worship and community, the more I want something similar for Christians. I often see themes of lay-centered, multi-participant and tradition transcending worship in groups (which have adopted the older and more general name minyanim; somehow the usual translation “prayer quora” doesn’t cut it) […]
Why the license? The movie
Saturday, November 24th, 2007Or you can watch this three minute video. (The license in the video is an older version of the one I use. I forgot to mention that there are other options.) Oh, and yes this ethos is going to be part of the new church start.
