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April 2005
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Stay-at-home saints
04.08.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on Stay-at-home saintsEvery church leader’s new favorite blog, Church Marketing Sucks, points to a nice investigative piece (being charitable to my former people here) in charismatic magazine Charisma. (I still fondly remember columns by the late editor Jamie Buckingham.) The article asks, plainly, why are there "stay at home saints?" Some of the answers:
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Church marketing sucks
04.08.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on Church marketing sucksThe Revealer points to a deliciously honest blog: Church Marketing Sucks. If this claim is news to you, please (please!) resign from any and all committee positions you happen to hold. You’re part of the problem.
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Life by the book
04.08.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on Life by the bookI’m finally going to answer ChaliceChick’s summons and answer these bibiophilic questions. You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be? Lao Tzu’s Tao te Ching. It has to be the only book I want to know (in some deep, wisened sense of that word). Plus, it would lend itself to interesting […]
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Bruising talk about our beloved community
UU Enforcer kicks your turtle ass, punk. Don’t believe me? How about this little pep talk about GA, the annual UU meeting: "GA has become our own mega-church it meets once a year for a week and every fucking UU gypsies shows up along with tons of ministers." Take that, beeyotch. You got any fucking […]
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Well, well, well…
04.06.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on Well, well, well…Progressive Protestant has been kind enough to transcribe a recording of a short talk Henry Nelson Wieman gave on the “god question” in 1965. Here is the transcript.
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