I’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 […]
A follow up to the idea of congregation growth in the Unitarian Universalist Association.
The fact is that, at last, everything dies: organizations and relationships included. Congregations do choose to leave the UUA, consolidate or (perhaps not by choice) disband. Even though we often talk about human death in a beautiful and pastoral way, I’ve noticed […]
The Universalist Japanese mission is one of those episodes in denominational history that perplexes those who might be interested in it. It flourished through the twenties, barely survived the War (I gather) but a single congregation of it — the Doojin Christian Church, Tokyo (no Web site) — remains today.
There’s little one can read […]
I have made it a point to avoid Unitarian Universalist youth and young adults politics long these many years.
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Even when I was a teen, I thought youth groups were boring. If you dare criticize the acronym-heavy youth and young adults, you can expect to be condemned by them, or as often, by […]
As far as I can tell, 100% of Unitarian Universalists will, in time, stop being Unitarian Universalists. Death does that.
Whether we experience the Beatific Vision, are reincarnated, subsume into the Monad or simple stop being we share a common experience after death. I’ve never heard anyone suggest we will carry on as a sect (and […]
One of my favorite D.C. churches is First Baptist. Really. One reason: I like how the senior minister “tell[s] people we are the ‘Jimmy Carter kind of Baptists’ and not the Jerry Falwell kind,” which strikes me as a very evocative way of identifying a church. I’d take evocation over description almost every time.
That said, […]
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Akron blog considers the Story of Stuff video, which you can watch online, download or read the transcript. (PDF link) It has been well-received but there’s something in it that deserves to be uplifted.
A candid, postwar quotation from retailing analyst Victor Lebow: “Our enormously productive economy . . . demands […]
Stephen Lingwood (Reignite) asks if a Christmas carol service can be missional. Sure: I’d think you’re more likely to get people in the doors for a carol service than any other single service of the year, except perhaps Easter.
I don’t understand the UK religion scene, but I bet the following are true:
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Timing. Does the service […]
Even though Day Job is around the corner from the CBN News office, I don’t think much about that candidate for America’s #1 lunatic: Pat Robertson.
The readers at Towelroad, using a YouTube-d video grabbed by Right Wing Watch, is having a “I can’t believe it” moment.
Seems the 700 Mob now thinks I-35 is […]
A hundred years ago or so today — the fourth Sunday in November — would have been widely observed in Universalist churches as Japan Sunday, in observance of the Universalist General Convention’s most noteworthy foreign mission and for foreign missions in general.
