About the District (for non-Unitarian Universalists)
For all the grief I give the UUA leadership — and sometimes I worry deeply about strategies and priorities from Boston, but that’s for another time — I’m increasingly fond of the Joseph Priestley...
View ArticleHow many new congregations?
I’m trying to get the lay of the land, respecting new(ish) churches that have joined the Unitarian Universalist Association. I wrote about the batch that were welcomed at General Assembly 2006 —...
View ArticleSo all those churches since 2003
As I mentioned in the last post, I’ve gone back to see how many churches have joined the UUA since GA 2003. (Was that the last GA I attended?) It’s as if someone turned the tap down to a trickle. New...
View ArticleMapping the UUA
These days, if you use the church finder at UUA.org, a nice map of your state pops up with it. I’m not ungrateful, but I did want a global view — perhaps with a bit of clarifying detail; see below —...
View ArticleSoul searching, again
More short-form blogging. Wondering out loud what to make of the UUA staff and growth advocates meeting this week. Deeply suspicious that there’ll be any positive development. Not that there aren’t...
View ArticleOnly one new congregation this year?
I see the UU Congregation of Petoskey, Michigan joined the UUA (PDF) in January, with 35 members. Is that the only one that joined in 2012?
View ArticleWanted: a comprehensive list of Universalist, Unitarian and Unitarian churches
No April Fools, but an honest request. One of those resources that other communions have that we do not have is a comprehensive list of every Unitarian, Universalist and Unitarian Universalist church...
View ArticleRevisiting “Rekindling the Mainline: New Life Through New Churches” (and UUA...
This four-year-old comment (thanks, Derek) led me to revisit Stephen C. Compton’s 2003 Rekindling the Mainline: New Life Through New Churches (link for reference) to see what’s still applicable and...
View ArticleResetting the new congregation clock
I had previously mentioned that Unitarian Universalist Association board was scheduled to consider the membership application of the Iowa Lakes Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in its October...
View ArticleCongregation count at the current UUA Board meeting
The Board of Trustees of the Unitarian Universalist Association is in the middle of its October meeting. No great thought on my part, but I did note that there is a net loss of two congregations, per...
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