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freaks-and-geeks, google, marketing, UU, web-ads
Write the web ad: “Come join the UU freakshow!”
08.19.07 | Permalink | 24 CommentsJeff W. wrote in the comments to the last post, Maybe UU churches should try marketing themselves with banners that say “Come join the freakshow!†How would you market UUism online? This question has gone around the UU blogosphere before, so let’s make it very specific this time. We’re talking viral advertising, not broadcast. 1. […]
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nerd-party, UU, welcome
Are UUs freaks and geeks?
08.18.07 | Permalink | 14 CommentsThis one from the wife: Are we a movement that attracts more outsiders than most? Or as frequent commenter 4alarm puts it, are we a nerd party?
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comments, widgets, wordpress
And our top commentators are…
08.16.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on And our top commentators are…Since there’s been such a wonderful flurry of comments, I added a new thingy to the sidebar to give linky goodness to the most frequent commenters. Spread the love and give them a click.
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empire, gnosticism, good-earth, kingdom-of-god, material-world, naturalism
Good earth gnosticism
08.16.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Good earth gnosticismGnosticism gets a lot of guff for seeing the material world as something to be escaped from. I think that’s a caricature of gnosticism. Sure, the Used Car Salesman who created the world set up a lemon of a universe, but that doesn’t mean gnosticism has to be anti-body and anti-earth. Even if many flavors […]
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baptists, homemakers, seminary
Did your seminary have a class on homemaking?
08.16.07 | Permalink | 6 CommentsThis one’s going to. I suppose it’s a prereq for an MRS degree.
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gnosticism, hbo, john-from-cininnati, sophia
The gnosticism of John from Cincinnati
08.14.07 | Permalink | 4 CommentsI don’t know how many of you watch HBO’s John From Cincinanti. The long and short of it is that the Second Coming has come to a run down stretch of beach south of San Diego. Instead of Jesus of Nazareth, he’s John from Cincinnati. A recurring theme is John’s incomprehensibility. He just almost makes […]
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