Even before friend, blogger and minister Adam Tierney-Eliot wrote about using the Easum-Bandy Uncommon Lectionary for his church, I pondered the use of an older single-year lectionary. I had seen these worship reading lists for ages, but nearly all of them dried up in the post-Vatican II reforms, when the Roman Catholics moved to a […]
This morning’s Washington Post has a front page story on the role of technology in churches, though the article is long on its role in worship and almost silent on its role in education, administration or mission. Still, it brings up the contradiction that the use of wireless connectivity, broadcast and projectors — as described […]
Has anyone seen (or better, produced) really clever orders of worship (service) — feel free to brag with some detail, and include a link if it exists somewhere on the Web.
Did anyone watch the Doctor Who episode, “The Family of Blood” on SciFi tonight?
There were two liturgical clues in the last scene, placing the action on a particular day (saying which would be a spoiler) in one of the years from 1994 to 2000, inclusive. I’m feeling rather clever. Did anyone else catch them?
I’ve listed below the fold seven annual observances recommended by the Universalist General Convention; I’ve pulled this list from the 1907 Universalist Register. Why?
I’ll be writing about the use of a church year and lectionary
the subject of Association Sunday (October 14) is live in the [...]
A logistical question.
While I had the pleasure of assisting the Transylvanian Unitarian bishop and his provost distribute Communion at the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship Revival conference that my former pastorate hosted, the church’s architecture is unlike those in Transylvania so I don’t know how the distribution would take place there.
To recap, from what I’ve read […]
There were two recent blog posts others wrote that I wanted to lift up respecting Communion.
Cee Jay (Cee Jay’s Cyber Space) notes how the interim minister of her church recommends a monthly communion service — either before or after the main service — and she suggests this might fill a liturgical and pastoral void. Her […]
There was a Interfaith worship service at Yearly Kos, the conference associate with mega-political-blog Daily Kos. The readings included a portion from Universalist minister Olympia Brown, but I mention it because (1) the whole thing might be found in any number of Unitarian Universalist churches and (2) the liturgy is online. Pictures, too. (I love […]
Not the hymn, which I think will be with us in some form — recovered or new — for a very long time, but the compiled and printed hymnal that I both love and which often fails to impress me. And sometimes fails congregations.
Hymnals are frozen in time. Because they are expensive to produce and […]
Apart from my internship church — which was either the largest or second largest church in the Unitarian Universalist Association at the time — all of the churches I’ve served, regularly supplied or pastored have been small. All but my last pastorate — which would be in the smallest 25% in terms of Sunday attendance […]
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