I almost didn’t go to the midday service at nearby Luther Place Memorial Church (ELCA) but I’m glad I did. My liturgical experiences at this church have been hit-and-miss in years past, but the church conducted worship well and I wanted to comment on what made it successful.
The music was [...]
I know it is a convention — at least in Unitarian Universalist circles — for preachers to end a sermon with amen and sometimes other codas, like blessed be or shanti. This is about amen, if not the others. Stop it. Stop it now. Carl Scovel (boy, I wish he blogged!) broke me of […]
Part of the benefit of the ill-named Web 2.0 shift is that
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the read-only web can now be both read and written (wikis, personal blogs, YouTube etc.) a great deal of its strength comes from networks and shared resources
Here’s one that’s easy to learn, use and share: del.icio.us, the link tagging service
Get a […]
If Google Docs can help me loose weight, why not Wikipedia for preaching? (Not that I’m preaching much these days.)
Not for fact-checking (though I find a well-cited article is helpful for follow-up reading) but for style. Wikipedia has a house style that helps improve reading and factual quality while smoothing out writer idiosyncrasies. While […]
A simple request. Do any of the preachers who read this blog have an accustomed workflow for preparing sermons that you would like to share?
Here’s one for the preachers out there looking for some new material when you get back ’round to Noah and Company.
An ancient flood some say could be the origin of the story of Noah’s Ark may have helped the spread of agriculture in Europe 8,300 years ago by scattering the continent’s earliest farmers, researchers said […]
As I mentioned a couple of days ago, if you used a lectionary in the pre-Vatican II/pre-CCT lectionary days — and you weren’t from one of the Eastern churches — it was almost certainly the traditional Western lectionary. While today its use is most associated with very conservative folks, this wouldn’t be true of past […]
Seems people are looking for heaven but finding hell. Not a theological statement but a use of Google Trends — news keyword tracking — and includes links to representative (or responsible?) news stories.
Fun, and perhaps useful for preachers looking for an illustration.
Victoria Weinstein (PeaceBang) introduced me yesterday to a plugin for managing sermons podcast from a church or ministry site that uses WordPress. It’s 0.8 release reference means that all the features planned haven’t been implemented, but it should be welcome in the religious end of web, particularly since it’s easy to install and seems easy […]
I love a freebie, especially if it’s a book that doesn’t take up shelf space.
The reason I made it to a search of All Souls Bethlehem Church yesterday is because I had just been by the Fourth Universalist, New York site, the successor church to the Broadway church were the famous Universalist minister Edwin Hubbell […]
