Less deep UCC mystery
I got my first (and unsolicited) reference as a UCC blogger from Respect the Comma. What makes this particularly nice is that the author is himself joining the UCC church he found in nearby...
View ArticleI hear Lo-Fi like Hi-Fi
R.E.M.’s “(Don’t Go Back to) Rockville” is playing as I re-read Shawn Anthony’s recent post about his Christian faith and how this puts off the Unitarian Universalist Association ministerial formation...
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GA evening worship, so strange?
One of the nice things about slipping out of the inner UU orbit is that I get to be a bit of a newcomer again with the UCC, and that I can make disinterested (and I hope helpful) comments about the...
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Rudolf Koch for typefaces in UCC publications
One of the reasons I love typography is that it is one of the sources of art and design that nearly everyone sees and at some level appreciates. I was looking at the work of German calligrapher and...
View ArticleOught a theological center be the goal?
Of all the angst-ridden group processes Unitarian Universalists have endured in recent years, none has promised so much and produced so little as the quest to find a “theological center.” I think that...
View ArticleJoined Grace Reformed Church
Well, I’ve made another major step United Church of Christ-ward by joining Grace Reformed Church, UCC, Washington this morning. I have the certificate of membership and box of offering envelopes to...
View ArticleUCC “E word” resource worth getting, emulating
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,...
View ArticleOh, this can’t be good
Songwriting contest will lead to new ‘UCC praise songs’ companion to hymnal (United Church News)
View ArticleAssociate Fellowship
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...
View ArticleE&R liturgy?
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...
View ArticleCan any national meeting really be green?
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.Â...
View ArticleUCC to stream its business
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,...
View ArticleBlogger: Matthew Davis Fox
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...
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New UCC site: get me my lemon reamer
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...
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Let’s help the UCC
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...
View ArticleUCC.org: an interim step
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...
View ArticleUCC.org: the step they took
Later. If you care about UCC.org, or church websites in general, see Anna Belle Leiserson’s break-down of the facts at her Faith and Web. Well, if you go to UCC.org now, you get your choice of high and...
View ArticleGA 2008: pimp my seminary
Psst! Theological students, over here. If I wanted to improve the profile of my seminary — particularly if I’ve heard that it has a soft reputation, a problem with enrollment or that my denomination is...
View ArticleGS 2007: blogging Synod
UCC minister Kirk Moore (Kirogitation) is blogging regularly the events of the United Church of Christ General Synod in Hartford, Connecticut. They have an interesting program today; I would rather...
View ArticleHans for President
A person more politically astute than I noted this state presidential campaign site and remembered the UCC site with the “Hi! I’m Hans” flash animation.
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