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 […]
Ron Robinson is the executive director of the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship; he also writes an independent blog (Planting God Communities). While he’s careful not to speak for the UUCF, I can trust he speaks from knowledge of the independent affiliates controversy.
Check out this post, and make it all the way to the end.
I’m not […]
I thought it was worth listing the “breakthrough congregations” featured in Plenary III.
Davies Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church, Camp Springs, Maryland
All Souls Unitarian Church, Kansas City, Missouri
First Unitarian Church, Portland, Oregon
Carbondale Unitarian Fellowship, Carbondale, Illinois
This is for Jamie Goodwin, who writes at Trivium. The following comes from Universalism and Problems of the Universalist Church by William Frost Crispin (1888). This is one of the books I listed earlier today as being available from Google Books for PDF download.
It is book on Universalism by a Universalist published outside Boston — […]
I was bad and was asked to leave the General Assembly plenary hall one year.
Oh, I wasn’t alone. This was Before Blog, but there were two or three other current bloggers with me. We were cutting up and talking too loud. (We could pipe down or leave; we left.) I, for one, had felt obliged […]
I was thinking about how much GA costs. Whether one self-pays, gets assistance or volunteers, there are opportunity costs for this kind of meeting.
I think the first piece of literature — whether it be a position paper, a pamphlet or webpage — I think any new Christian church needs to get down is its understanding of and relationship with non-Christians.
There’s too much to unpack in a format as brief as blog writing, but having a Christian church — […]
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