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What you can’t say
08.02.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on What you can’t sayAre you morally fashionable?
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The work ethic of the lillies of the field
Middle class lockdown prophet Joe Bageant links to a hefty review of The False Gospel of Work by Eugene McCarraher. Among the book’s bold claims: The work ethic’s boss is Mammon. We have a triune birthright: rest, product, and pleasure in work. Talking about consumerism is a way of not talking about capitalism. “Productivity” is […]
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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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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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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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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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