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 [...]
Sometimes I mention in front of web developers and designers how WordPress can function quite well for church websites. Objections follow. Then I describe these churches: small, with no dedicated technical staff and requiring few bells and whistles. Then agreements follow. But some WordPress themes are better than others, and there’s little pretending that such [...]
The BoingBoing-noted launch of a Google image search feature makes finding images sorted by Create Commons license much easier.
Take, for example this search for images labled unitarian or universalist that are available for reuse and modification, but not in commercial applications.
Useful, too: found this nineteenth-century picture of old First Universalist, Minneapolis, which looks like the [...]
Blogging minister (or ministering blogger) and friend Victoria Weinstein — PeaceBang — noted that she posted only a few pictures from her sabbatical visit in Romania because of the cost of bandwidth.
This truth cuts both ways: heavyweight Web sites take a long time to download when the connection is slow. And if the connection is [...]
I went to a conference last month and got a tote bag full of crap, better known as swag. Useless promotional material — I glanced at most pieces before tossing them into the recycling — and plastic doo-dads branded with a company I don’t care about. (I do like promotional flash drives, especially the one’s [...]
Three posts in one day? Madness!
In case you were wondering, April 9 is also CSS Naked Day. So there’s a holiday for everyone!
What’s that?
The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good ‘ol play [...]
To round out the Order of Service Trilogy: for religious leaders and administrators (paid or volunteer) — what parts of the producing a printed order of worship cause you the most trouble? What, if anything, could make it easier?
Coming from a small church background, I know that the print pieces were always more trouble [...]
Derek’s comment in the last entry — about what not to do — is likely to ring more bells than an appeal to the best and brightest in the Exciting World of Orders of Worship.
So please leave your peeves and horror stories here.
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I ask without irony: is anyone doing anything exciting in the typesetting of worship orders of service (service sheets)? Seen anything interesting? Please comment.
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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 [...]
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