Archive for the 'United Church of Christ' Category

UCC.org: an interim step

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Later. I don’t see the furore at the UCC forum I’d expect if my denominational site was inaccessible; indeed, others just love it. (I have to turn off the style — see below — just to see the links to the forum. Perhaps others can’t comment.) In any case, I’ll withdraw my call to help. […]

Let’s help the UCC

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

I think this is a job for International Rescue — er, Ecumenical Rescue.

People at UCCForums with dialup are complaining they can’t read their denominational site at all, and and me with my poor DSL line can’t get any functionality. Except Hans the UCC Answer Guy. Perhaps I’ll have better luck at Day Job: we […]

New UCC site: get me my lemon reamer

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

James Estes (Peregrinato) visited the new UCC website and tagged me for my opinion. He writes:

Simply put, I don’t like the new website for the United Church of Christ–at least at first glance.

I really don’t care for the menu bar with its so self-consciously hip titles: The 411, Church Stuff (…can we be any more […]

Blogger: Matthew Davis Fox

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

I’ve added the LiveJournal page feed for (the Rev.) Matthew Davis Fox on my feed reader at home.

I found it after I Googled his name after finding at reference to his ordination at the All Souls Bethlehem Church, Brooklyn website. As some of my readers may know, All Souls Bethlehem is a three-way federated church: […]

UCC to stream its business

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

UCC will broadcast all business “gavel to gavel” of the General Synod this June. Cool.

So says the United Church News.

(I rather wish the UUA had substantive business like, say, contested elections, but that’s another post.)

Can any national meeting really be green?

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

With the hit carbon offsetting firms are getting — how do you know they do what they claim to do? — the usefulness of offsetting carbon emissions for the UUA General Assembly is at least questionable.  And even if it worked perfectly, it seems the greater energy and resource drain comes from the flying or […]

E&R liturgy?

Monday, March 19th, 2007

I have noticed from time to time how there is a gentle, bubbling interest in the liturgies of the (German) Reformed Church, Evangelical Synod, and Evangelical and Reformed Church, which entered the United Church of Christ in 1957.

But there is almost nothing about the liturgies online. Admittedly, the E&R worship book, at the beginning of […]

Associate Fellowship

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Y’all should know I’ve suspended my process towards the United Church of Christ and have requested that my ministerial fellowship in the Unitarian Universalist Association, which would otherwise been lost or resigned, transferred to Associate Fellowship.

Oh, this can’t be good

Friday, January 26th, 2007
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UCC “E word” resource worth getting, emulating

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

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 […]