Another advertisement from the 1912 Universalist Register was for the “Cross and Crown” system of pins and accessories, to award Sunday School participation. You still see these for sale in old-fashioned church supply stores, but while there used to be named versions for all major denominations, you hardly see any other than Baptists today; the… Continue reading Universalist Register 1912: Cross and Crown!
Category: Religious education
It is like a dear home meal…
It is like a dear home-meal, a family supper, where the Elder and the younger brothers meet around their Father’s table. It is like a farewell meal just before a dear one goes away from home on a perilous journey. The breaking of bread together, the cup of wine together, the beautiful words of remembrance… Continue reading It is like a dear home meal…
Learning Javascript at Code Year: the other lesson
Code Year — a project of CodeAcademy — has taken off like gangbusters. At the end of 2011, I signed up to take lessons — easy to sign up; free of charge — to learn how to write code. I started my Javascript lesson today. No premininaries — just dove in — and nobody asked… Continue reading Learning Javascript at Code Year: the other lesson
Resource to accompany Universalist prayer book
Regular readers know my affection for the series of prayerbooks first arranged by Charles H. Leonard, Universalist minister and seminary professor, and later extracts and abridgments. The first dates to 1867; the last, a local extract, was printed in 1957. I type out the collects and readings from the former each week. Careful readers will… Continue reading Resource to accompany Universalist prayer book
A thought about organizing online trainings
If you’ve worked in a office long enough, it’s even odds that you’ve found yourself in an online or video-conferenced training. I’ve taken them, participated in testing them and have secured the vendors for hosting them. The appeal is obvious: it saves money. The presenter doesn’t have to hire a meeting space, so registration fees… Continue reading A thought about organizing online trainings
Interesting worship tidbit from Chicago
This is a follow-up from that post about posts that I intended to get around to — so I’ll keep this brief and get it out the door. Last June, I noted that two more Universalist worship books appeared at Google Books. One, from 1891, is from the then long-defunct St. Paul’s Universalist Church in… Continue reading Interesting worship tidbit from Chicago
Say no five times (sure to irritate everyone)
Two weekends ago, Hubby and I went to IKEA, going most of the way by subway. On the ride, we made a list of habits and practices that we would not accept in the new church. In a low moment, we thought the church just might as well have no people — that’s one way… Continue reading Say no five times (sure to irritate everyone)
The church noob
One way to distinguish a well-functioning church from one less well functioning is how it treats its novices — the “noob” or “newbie” — and that includes those entering ministerial life. We were all novices once, and failing to guide and shape the new and inexperienced is no credit to one’s expertise. A bit of… Continue reading The church noob
If faith formation shows where we’re going, where have we been?
How did I miss this organization all this time? Unitarian Universalist Religious Education History Group
Challenge: shopping with Secretary Clinton
Yesterday, among stories about technology deployment, I read one featuring State Department employees who noted, before Secretary Hillary Clinton, a desire have the Firefox browser. I can appreciate that — it’s a good browser — but when an undersecretary pushed back (correctly) that nothing is really, in deployment and maintenance, cost-free, the Secretary replied from… Continue reading Challenge: shopping with Secretary Clinton