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	<description>Scott Wells on the practice of Christian faith</description>
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		<title>&#8220;God of Concrete, God of Steel&#8221;</title>
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A win for the alternative-to-Google browser Clusty I started using yesterday.
Last year I discovered the site godofconcrete.org, then dedicated to the modernist hymn, &#8220;God of Concrete, God of Steel&#8221; &#8212; a kind of Benedicite opera omnia for the space age. Here&#8217;s the text. It&#8217;s definitely a love-it-or-hate-it hymn. I love it because it assumed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Google less</title>
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I wrote last at my infrequent, long-format blog Rev. Scott Wells that I was cutting back &#8212; cutting out, really &#8212; my meat eating, and less Google. I wonder what is more difficult.
While I wasn&#8217;t terribly clear in my blog post, it boils down to an unwholesome dependence on a company that&#8217;s quickly becoming a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ePub?</title>
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Dear readers &#8212; both of this blog, and readers generally &#8212; how many of you read long-format documents with a portable text readers in the ePub format? (The Amazon Kindle&#8217;s proprietary format does not count here.)
By reader I mean &#8220;conventional&#8221; tablet-sized readers, phones or laptops? Or even desktop computers.
And what do you read with it?


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		<title>Anti-clerical?</title>
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The Unitarian Fellowship movement was the most successful liberal church growth program in living memory. It was not perfect, but given how different these fellowships were from what came before, it&#8217;s amazing it worked &#8212; or was allowed to work &#8212; at all. 
The Unitarian Fellowships get a bad rap today, which I think odd [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Possible next steps after the UUA staff cuts</title>
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While it is pretty clear where I stand on some matters related to Unitarian Universalist Association staffing, it&#8217;s not to say I&#8217;d be happy to leave things as they were had there been no financial crisis. 
In a word, I think we suffer from over-consolidation. Apart from the theological schools and camps, it&#8217;s hard to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking about the UUA staff cuts</title>
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I&#8217;ve heard two attitudes that see some good come out of the staff cuts. One which disagrees with the Washington Office &#8212; though others will be losing their jobs too &#8212; for political, policy reasons and another which thinks the Washington Office shouldn&#8217;t exist for polity reasons. I have no sympathy for either argument. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad day for the UUA</title>
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Saw this, &#8220;oh crap&#8221; was the best I could think.

UUA eliminates Washington advocacy office
The Unitarian Universalist Association announced the layoffs of 15 employees February 26 as the first phase of a reorganization of the UUA’s staff.
The UUA’s Washington Office for Advocacy will be eliminated at the end of the fiscal year in June. Four of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The bigger winners today in D.C. . . .</title>
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. . . are the same-sex couples in Maryland.  I know: as a D.C. resident, I should be happiest the place I call home, but . . .
Last week, the Maryland Attorney General announced that, barring court action, the same-sex marriages contracted in other jurisdictions would be recognized in Maryland. This is good news [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://boyinthebands.com/archives/the-bigger-winners-today-in-d-c/</link>
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		<title>I officiate weddings in the District of Columbia</title>
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To remind my readers: I am an ordained minister with fifteen years&#8217; experience in performing weddings. I have credentials to preform weddings in the District of Columbia.
And, yes: I will talk to same-sex couples looking to marry. (Indeed, I am half of a same-sex couple.)  
As you might know, the District of Columbia will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://boyinthebands.com/archives/i-officiate-weddings-in-the-district-of-columbia/</link>
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		<title>Clergy sexual misconduct site resumes</title>
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I&#8217;m glad to see Speaking Truth to Power &#8212; a site addressing clergy sexual misconduct (CSM) resume. In its own words, &#8220;its specific focus is Unitarian Universalist processes for dealing with CSM.&#8221; Though popularly conflated with child sexual abuse, the risk of clergy sexual misconduct remains and in a congregational system there&#8217;s little natural recourse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://boyinthebands.com/archives/clergy-sexual-misconduct-site-resumes/</link>
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		<title>The winners with regions</title>
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I was a little amazed about the idea &#8212; from a special UUA Board meeting no less; where&#8217;s the fire? &#8212; that five regions should supplement and perhaps supersede the current nineteen districts. 
Chutney asks who the losers would be. Staff, to be sure. That&#8217;s what reorganizations are for. But I wonder who the winners [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://boyinthebands.com/archives/the-winners-with-regions/</link>
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		<title>My Lenten practice</title>
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Still getting my feet about putting longer-format, more-theological works at my RevScottWells.con blog. That&#8217;s where I put
&#8220;At Lent: less meat, less Google&#8220;


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		<title>Nonprofit license for mailing?</title>
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I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m reading this incorrectly, but it seems that a religious organization, whether or not it is incorporated (a state I wouldn&#8217;t recommend) or has an affirmative IRS 503(c)(3) ruling (that&#8217;s a recognition as a public charity by the federal tax authority, for my overseas readers) is eligible to apply for a nonprofit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To my stalwart New England friends</title>
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This journey, filmed by Joel Lawson, is my old neighborhood leading to my new neighborhood (and where my office is.)

Sunny today &#8212; just as snowy.


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		<title>The church noob</title>
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One way to distinguish a well-functioning church from one less well functioning is how it treats its novices &#8212; the &#8220;noob&#8221; or &#8220;newbie&#8221; &#8212; and that includes those entering ministerial life. We were all novices once, and failing to guide and shape the new and inexperienced is no credit to one&#8217;s expertise. 
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		<title>Naming this blizzard</title>
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The Chesapeake Bay watershed has been hit by a large snowstorm; indeed, two outsize storms since December, and a supplemental snowfall is due this week. 
The sidewalks are a patchwork of the clear and dry &#8212; a crown in heaven for those responsible persons who shoveled them &#8212; or, when, left uncleared like a wet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsletters: more on the &#8220;why?&#8221;</title>
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The snow has stopped falling here in D.C., and I&#8217;m tired of writing about it. Back to church administration.
Earlier, I wrote that much of the utility of newsletters &#8212; not e-newsletters, but the ones handed to you or sent by mail &#8212; comes from their physicality, thus providing a connection to the ministry that sends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D.C. church closings? openings?</title>
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I had a very nice invitation the middle of last week to fill in for a vespers service for a small church tomorrow. Since I&#8217;m not preaching these days, I was happy to be invited but asked . . . &#8220;what about the snow?&#8221;
They canceled, and I&#8217;m getting on the schedule. But it begs the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cooking for Armageddon</title>
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Reports of record snowfall &#8212; perhaps the worst since 1996, perhaps 1922, thus the worst I will have seen in my time in Washington, D.C. &#8212; have put our buttoned-up city into a tizzy. Snowmageddondc.com says it all. The groceries have been busy, and the nearby Trader Joe&#8217;s &#8212; always busy &#8212; last night was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting the newsletter</title>
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I have one, valedictory issue of the Liberal Christian to publish. At this point, I&#8217;m looking towards a spring date. 
That 2009 experiment was helpful, for me, for a couple of reasons and one was an appreciation of print publications for certain settings. Also my current Esperanto studies, since that community has been heavily dependent [...]]]></description>
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