http://boyinthebands.com/archives/philocrites-report-on-uua-boards-january-meeting/ Scott Wells on the practice of Christian faith Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:29:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://boyinthebands.com/archives/philocrites-report-on-uua-boards-january-meeting/#comment-7387 Philocrites Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:10:03 +0000 http://www.universalistchurch.net/boyinthebands/archives/philocrites-report-on-uua-boards-january-meeting/#comment-7387 I'm not going to get into your general concerns with CLF itself, since I don't think I understand some of them and probably disagree with others, but I do want to clarify something: I think you're talking about the "Church of the <em>Younger</em> Fellowship" idea — a proposal that was spawned by the young adults over at FUUSE, who for whatever range of reasons identify with the denomination but find local congregations a hard nut to crack. (They are, unfortunately, especially for college students.) My understanding is that these young adults took the idea to CLF, which saw some value in it that I can plainly understand. At the moment, CLF does better ministry-at-a-distance using e-mail and the Web than any other institution in the UUA. That model makes sense for a lot of younger young adults. I also understand that CLF chose to focus the program only on young adults, since ain't nobody gonna do your youth ministry if the local congregation won't. I’m not going to get into your general concerns with CLF itself, since I don’t think I understand some of them and probably disagree with others, but I do want to clarify something: I think you’re talking about the “Church of the Younger Fellowship” idea — a proposal that was spawned by the young adults over at FUUSE, who for whatever range of reasons identify with the denomination but find local congregations a hard nut to crack. (They are, unfortunately, especially for college students.) My understanding is that these young adults took the idea to CLF, which saw some value in it that I can plainly understand. At the moment, CLF does better ministry-at-a-distance using e-mail and the Web than any other institution in the UUA. That model makes sense for a lot of younger young adults. I also understand that CLF chose to focus the program only on young adults, since ain’t nobody gonna do your youth ministry if the local congregation won’t.

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