Call it an occupational hazard, particularly at a government transparency nonprofit, but I enjoy reading stuff like this notice from the IRS about the automatic deletion of nonprofit status from organizations that haven’t filed with the IRS in the last three years. It used to be that inactive groups could coast without filing for ages, [...]
The following is a verbatim listing circa 2005 of what UUA.org had as “all organizations” — including independent affiliates, seminaries, local ministries, various resources (including three of my own defunct or re-routed sites) and even businesses. There was a wisdom to this, echoed today in the listings at UUpdates.net, that I’m afraid has been lost. [...]
Good news — Mayor Fenty will sign the legislation which allows same-sex marriage in the District of Columbia tomorrow. From there, it must survive thirty legislative days in Congress before coming law. I’m hopeful, though all it would really offer Jonathan and me is the dignity of the title of marriage, and the opportunity to [...]
Today we hear the not-so-stunning news that Meadville Lombard plans to sell its Chicago property. The next step would be to relocate to metro-Boston to participate in some kind of educational situation with the UUCF-affiliated Andover Newton Theological School (which itself has a large Unitarian Universalist student base) and the ailing Episcopalian Colgate Rochester Crozer [...]
I’ll be wrapping up my little magazine The Liberal Christian at the end of this month. If you have a article or news note you’d like to submit, please send it to me at editor@liberalchristian.net. Thanks – Share this article Hide Sites $$(‘div.d3406′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
Whew! My dance ticket has been quite a bit more full than usual lately, and to make a long story short, I’m pushing back the publication of the fourth issue of The Liberal Christian to later this week. The Spanish hymnal issue suggests, if nothing else, that nothing substitutes for solid editing . . . [...]
After writing the last post, I noted it on Twitter (I’m bitb) where Martin Kelley (martin_kelley) , a force behind QuakerQuaker picked it up. To make the dialog short, I have an appeal for Unitarian Universalist Christians reading this. Please note in the comments how you have been affected by “anything but Christian” behavior, and [...]
Unitarian Universalist Christians use a few terms — Christophobia, cross cringe and ABC (“anything but Christian”) — to describe the reception we get in unfriendly settings. A posting today at QuakerQuaker shows that the problem — or perhaps a like problem — isn’t uniquely Unitarian Universalist. A shame that. Perhaps, too, an opportunity. “Liberal Quaker [...]
Greetings all: the third issue of the Liberal Christian, the online magazine I publish, will be released on June 22. This is a week later than the scheduled publication date, June 15. I hope the improved quality justifies the delay and I regret the inconvenience. Share this article Hide Sites $$(‘div.d3102′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
I’m accepting manuscripts for the third issue of the Liberal Christian, which must be released to me in the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license. (See http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 for what this means if you’re not familiar with liberal licenses.) Themes related to governance (including coverage of the past UK Unitarian and Free Christian AGM and forthcoming UUA [...]
