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• initiation rituals, membership, UU, uus

  What congregational membership means

  02.26.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I want to lay out the perspective on congregational membership that I’ve been using in my work as a membership director in a large UU congregation over the last year or so. Maybe this can add to the conversation about the meaning and scope of UU identity and the importance of initiation rituals in […]

• membership, UU

  Pretend there are no members

  02.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Pretend there are no individual members of individual UU congregations. How would the movement go about being the movement?

• membership, UU, uus

  Clarifications about membership

  02.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  First, I love that the discussion is still hot (as in cool, not as in angry). Please accept this post (and all others) in this spirit.
  I want to say more when I have more time, but I want to make some clarifications about my last post.
  1. In saying that the entire movement depends […]

• belief-o-matic, beliefnet, fox news, UU

  Whither the Belief-O-Matic?

  12.05.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Most every time I lead a new member workshop, I ask if anyone found out about us by taking the Belief-O-Matic quiz over at Beliefnet.com.  Invariably, some folks sheepishly raise their hands.
  I didn’t find out about UUism from it, but it did help push me over the “I’m not really UU, am I?” edge.  So […]

• blogging, UU

  Should UUs ban blogging?

  11.25.07 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  The Southern Baptists passed a resolution passive-aggressively condemning “certain people … for divisive and destructive rhetoric at the expense of peace among the brethren.” Because the moderates took back the Southern Baptist presidency through a blogger-based campaign, this carries a certain edge to it.
  We UU bloggers are a polite bunch, I have to say. […]

• ad campaign, marketing, parody, UU, uua

  New ad an act of self-parody?

  10.19.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  The Christian blog Pyromaniacs call the UUA’s Time magazine ad campaign an act of self-parody. I’m pretty critical of these things as they go, but I can’t go that far with this one. (Hat tip to Chamblee54.)

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