I mentioned that there are a number of Unitarian Universalist congregations that are not members of the Unitarian Universalist Association but neither are they
declared to be “emerging” with the goal of joining the UUA, really dormant or inactive; in essence a “submerged congregation,” independent, which includes some former members of the Universalist Church of America, “half-federated” with a […]
After the Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly in 2006, I asked if any new congregations were admitted. This I researched and also noted which congregations were no longer a member.
I’ve just now reviewed the minutes of the UUA Board of Trustees and the observer notes of the District Presidents Association since then and here are […]
Since a picture — or map — is worth a thousand words, I’ve created a Google map showing where all the emerging congregations in the Unitarian Universalist Association are. I’ve tried to put the most recent details with each congregation, but if you see an error, please make a comment.
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I’m going to take a couple of days to consider the issue of congregational growth in the Unitarian Universalist Association.
So I asked myself: How many emerging congregations — organizations in formation and those (once covenanted) that plan to join the Unitarian Universalist Association — are there? Their number is a good indicator of the UUA’s […]
A follow up to the idea of congregation growth in the Unitarian Universalist Association.
The fact is that, at last, everything dies: organizations and relationships included. Congregations do choose to leave the UUA, consolidate or (perhaps not by choice) disband. Even though we often talk about human death in a beautiful and pastoral way, I’ve noticed […]
At Day Job, we love data visualization. I do. Many people do. So much easier to share, learn and appreciate information when the data is expressed in a chart, map or tag cloud.
Noodling around for a Google map for a post to come out tomorrow, I ran across a Google map of “Unitarians and […]
On Friday, I got a nice email from Jamie L. Thompson, the Unitarian Universalist Association Stewardship and Development Office Coordinator with the copy of the Annual Report on Giving I requested.
Why wasn’t it online for general download? “[I]n order to respect the privacy of individual donors.” A bit cautious, but see with development (and not […]
There’s a bit of a dust-up at Peacebang about the tactics of the Association Sunday fundraisers and (to my mind) the more important piece about financial transparency. (To be fair faust at The Socinian asked the vital questions last year.) More important still is if these large efforts are more about consolidating power, resources and […]
Stephen Lingwood (Reignite) summed up many of my own feelings about the putative optionality of God one sees in Unitarian Universalism. (His title — “Is humanism theologically tolerant?” — is a bit misleading as it puts the onus of the problem on one half of the theist/humanist divide and misstates the conflicts in terms of […]
Several years ago, visiting a colleague-friend, I visited the Universalist-founded Tufts University, musing that this was as close as I was ever to get to a formal Universalist education. Crane, the Universalist seminary at Tufts, and St. Lawrence, the Universalist seminary in upstate New York were both closed in the late 1960s because the powers-that-were […]
