July 2006
The Archives
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blessed-community, congregationalism, ekklesia, ordination, seminary, upaya
Follow up: The gifts and graces for ministry
07.31.06 | Permalink | 7 CommentsA People So Bold and Boy in the Bands have each responded to my recent salvo on what ministry is and ain’t. Some further thoughts: 1. Ministry is not a profession. The professions—law, medicine, and psychology, most typically—are necessarily self-serving guilds. By credentialing and policing their members, they preserve the power to control public access […]
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ministerial-formation, ordination, seminary
The gifts and graces for ministry
07.28.06 | Permalink | 6 CommentsIt’s no secret here that I grew up in the crossfire between free range charismatics and institutional Methodist bureaucracy, so it should come as little surprise that I have strong feelings about seminary, denominational credentialing and ministry. One half of my church life taught me that anyone with the gifts and graces for ministry was […]
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children, laptops
The $100 laptop
07.27.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on The $100 laptopIt’s almost here. Minimum order of one million units required. A model for grown ups is not yet in the works.
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20/30s, church-growth, young-adult-ministry
How we grew a huge 20/30s group
07.27.06 | Permalink | 2 CommentsFollowing up on a comment thread over at Yet Another UU, it seems that my Unitarian congregation is not the only one that has faced challenges welcoming twenty- and thirtysomethings. But we’ve mostly done it, boasting a mailing list of almost 180. Here’s how.
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accountability, aristotle, bloggers, blogging, blogs, ethics, improv-comedy, pseudonyms
Blogging, accountability, and improv comedy
07.27.06 | Permalink | 3 CommentsWho are we bloggers accountable to? I imagine two families of accountability models when it comes to blogs. Professional models: Journalism vs. tabloid gossip. Academia vs. plagiarism. Footnotes, cited sources, and the lack thereof. Attribution and cheating. Personal models: Named vs. pen named. “In relationship” vs. hyper-individualist. “This is really me” vs. “I’m just playing […]
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karma, sin
Sinny sin sin
To excellent Scriber posts on sin, karma, and progress: one from a Buddhist, one from a pagan.
