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.
I’ve been associated with any number of organizations where I wondered “what happened?” — particularly when it comes to a person to “loses interest” or “loses touch.” A geographic move aside, I can’t help think there’s sometimes much more to the story.
Thanks to C. Wess Daniels (Gathering in Light) who points out a site I’ve […]
This week I’ve been having a heavy Web crush on the Conservative Quakers — more details later — and it will have to suffice for now to say that this is the smallest branch of the Religious Society of Friends will continue to hold my interest.
They have no national body (and don’t seem to be […]
I’m curious, are there Unitarian Universalists out there who are (1) not Christian, (2) come from a well-defined theological cohort, like the Humanists or Pagans and (3) advocate and plan for new congregation development?
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Churches sometimes have different levels of membership or affiliation, based on any number of criteria. But it is essentail that the rights and obligations of these distinctions are carefully spelled out.
So I was glad when I read the membership application for the National Religious Campaign Against Torture because they do just that. From the application.
There […]
After looking at some of the polity definitions from the Uniting Church of Australia, I thought I would look at the United Church of Canada’s polity documents, mainly drawn from the organic Basis of Union, with the paragraph numbers before each. The Methodist (pastoral charge as basic unit of organization) and Presbyterian (the powers and […]
Two definitions, grabbed from Wikipedia today (because of its liberal license):
In telecommunications and software engineering, scalability is a desirable property of a system, a network, or a process, which indicates its ability to either handle growing amounts of work in a graceful manner, or to be readily enlarged.
In software engineering, extensibility (sometimes confused with forward […]
I’ve written from time to time about federated and multi-denominational Unitarian Universalist churches, in part because that’s where you find many of the Christians in the UUA and also because they are an interesting polity situation that makes for illuminating case studies.
Hafidha Sofia (Never Say Never To Your Traveling Self) wrote today about a simplified approach to worship; doing so, she jogged loose something specific that’s been rolling around my head for a couple of weeks and appealing to some convictions I’ve had for years: we put too much into Sunday worship.
I forgot which blogger had […]
