Mock-euphemizing evangelism as “the E word” is a bit twee and a bit 1990s, but the point is well understood: the UCC has an evangelism toolkit to download offered with a wink. The UCC, like the UUA, has a cultural problem with evangelism and without sensitivity to that feeling it will never be overcome. I […]
The ad hoc “what I expect in a minister” thread at PeaceBang’s Beauty Tips for Ministers blog seems to be winding down; it seems to have hit a few nerves but has still only scratched the surface of ministerial formation, ethics, expectations and the implied spectre of clericalism.
I’m going to take the next few days […]
Unlike Clyde and more like Tom, I think there is already enough money for helping new churches form, and that forming a church formation foundation is the kind of work that deflects attention from what will actually get new church started. The bigger issues with Unitarian Universalist church planting are attitudinal.
Tom outlines a number of […]
Joseph Santos-Lyons mentioned the (possible) gathering of The Gathering, “an emerging full-service Internet-based Unitarian Universalist congregation.” Leaving aside some of the polity and logistical issues, and the trouble that name’s going to cause in branding — what are the pros and cons of this institution?
And more importantly, did anything come of it at General Assembly?
There’s no secret that I’m in a long, slow departure from institutional Unitarian Universalism in the direction of the United Church of Christ. Why now? I could theologize it, but a bigger reason than theology is geography.
Hubby and I live in Washington, D.C. and don’t intend to leave.
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That’s a serious, unsnarky question. I’ve been looking at UUA.org for fifteen minutes and I haven’t so far found evidence of any congregations being welcomed. That was always my favorite part of the opening of General Assembly, but I would rather not have to dive into the streaming video all day to see.
Since the 80s, […]
Troy Reeme at Open Source C[redit] U[nion] – oh the blogs I read! — reports that marketing guru Seth Godin kept calling the attendees of a major credit union conference “bankers.” Finally, one of the audience members rose and corrected him.
.. Seth responded, “I’m a consumer. It doesn’t matter what you think. I think you’re […]
I was plodding around the church list of the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches — the part of the Congregational Christians that didn’t go in with the UCC, and with which I had a brief flirtation in the 90s; also the only Christian communion I know of that has formal dealings with Unitarian Universalist […]
Washington Metro — the main subway and bus provider — is really trying to shape up its public image and service following the retirement of the last director, best remembered locally for his golden parachute.
The anonymous author of the UK Unitarian blog praises the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Poconos for opening a bookstore. OK, I think, if it is a second-hand store for fundraising, or if combined with a coffee shop, again as a fundraiser or as a community focus point, then fine. But the economics of such […]
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