define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); Comments on: We have to BUY the report?? http://www.makingchutney.com/2005/06/23/we-have-to-buy-the-report/ One part facial hair. Two parts moxy. Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:24:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Roger Kuhrt http://www.makingchutney.com/2005/06/23/we-have-to-buy-the-report/comment-page-1/#comment-2531 Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:24:01 +0000 http://www.makingchutney.com/posts/2005/06/23/we-have-to-buy-the-report/#comment-2531 If you are truly interested in the subject (our core) it would be worth checking out the Lecture Robert Bellah gave to the UUA a few years back. I think it was the Ware Lecture. If you google Bellah his site will come up and he has included those remarks there.

Cheerfully, Roger Kuhrt
PS: I think his presentation is much for informative that the COA report!

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By: Boy in the bands » Blog Archive » Show me the report! http://www.makingchutney.com/2005/06/23/we-have-to-buy-the-report/comment-page-1/#comment-2529 Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:20:12 +0000 http://www.makingchutney.com/posts/2005/06/23/we-have-to-buy-the-report/#comment-2529 […] hat to buy instead Show me the report! I had the same response as Chutney: why isn’t the Commission on Appraisal report available online? […]

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By: Roger Kuhrt http://www.makingchutney.com/2005/06/23/we-have-to-buy-the-report/comment-page-1/#comment-2528 Thu, 23 Jun 2005 18:01:55 +0000 http://www.makingchutney.com/posts/2005/06/23/we-have-to-buy-the-report/#comment-2528 Well the Report says it isn’t the end of a process, but the beginning and everybody on the Commission wants to learn–so teach ’em! I bought it because I want to stay up with what is going on, but I am also kind of living off savings and a free pdf would have been nice. My cursory reading of the report was disappointing as it appears to report the obvious. I suspect it is a decent compendium of our current “issues”, but it does not point much of a way to any creative resolutions. The biggest disappointment for me was the scant numbers of persons who bothered to engage the process–and this included a definite lack of participation by clergy. I think a much more substantive “report” could be made by taking a representative number of published sermons and doing a content analysis and jotting down what’s being suggested by this “theological” dialog between pulpit and pew. The same could be done with Church Newsletters if you want to get a sense of the current praxis within the congregations.

Cheerfully, Roger Kuhrt
Semi-retired Minister
Tacoma, WA

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