Archive for the 'Small churches' Category

Historic small Universalist church blogs

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

I almost missed the fact that members of the Pullman Memorial Universalist Church, Albion, New York (21 members) started group-blogging church events, as Chalicefire. While unofficial, I shouldn’t wonder if the blog will become the de facto church site — as Google records — in time and the tone is pleasantly and lightly outwards-reaching.

A model […]

Asus Eee, day 2 (with a nod to Tiny church administration)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Well, I’ve decided to wipe the default operating system and, like Fr. Chris had intimated, add a specially-adapted version of Xubuntu (a version of Ubuntu with a lighter interface) in its place.

The deciding factor was a little caution in the user guide:

Removing the pre-installed software is not allowed.

Really? Even though I have no interest […]

The smallest fifth of churches: liturgical planning

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Apart from my internship church — which was either the largest or second largest church in the Unitarian Universalist Association at the time — all of the churches I’ve served, regularly supplied or pastored have been small. All but my last pastorate — which would be in the smallest 25% in terms of Sunday attendance […]

Websites from two bantamweight Pennsylvania churches

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

I didn’t want to blog twice about Pennsylvania websites yesterday, so I waited twenty-four hours. The thing is that the churches that give us these sites are really small.


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