RevCyn

In the last two years, I've known some ministers who attend GA without attending GA.  That is, they come to the city of the General Assembly, but don't register for General Assembly.  In doing so, they save registration costs, but are still able to have lunch and dinner meetings with colleagues, or churches, if they're in search, or meet with denominational committees if necessary.  There are a few GA events that are open to the public, as well -- Sunday morning worship, and the Service of the Living Tradition, and the exhibit hall on Sunday.  This year there are even more, since any person can attend the witness events that are held outside of the convention center, and that includes more events this year. There are always good UU events to be found outside of the General Assembly programming, too, and this year I find myself, although registered for GA, interested in attending more of it.  One high-profile example is an event hosted by the Unitarian Universa...

In introducing the special offering this week for the Haiti earthquake relief funds, I made the following remarks:            It was hard for me not to drop my entire sermon that I had planned this week and preach on the situation in Haiti .  There’s much to be said about the religious response to sorrow and suffering, and what our theology has to tell us in times like this.  And so, since I can’t help myself, really, I wanted to say a little bit about it here, because I am doing the sermon later on the previously announced subject.             We often refer to Unitarian Universalism as a liberal religion.  And that’s different from what liberal means in a political sense.  But it’s often hard to articulate what that difference is, and what being a liberal religion means.  Not so this week.  Our liberal faith becomes clear, in sharp contrast to the co...

This from the UUSC webpage:  UUSC is accepting donations to provide aid to the people affected by the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. If you would like to  donate by check , please make it payable to "UUSC/UUA Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund" and mail it to UUSC, P.O. Box 844001, Boston, MA 02284-4001. If you wish to donate online, go to < https://secure2.convio.net/uusc/site/Donation2?df_id=1720&1720.donation=form1 >.

I missed my regular blog post last week, and I'm sort of cheating this week. Meanwhile, thank you readers, for some really excellent comments and questions on the subject of church growth. I'll return to that subject soon. Next week I'm on vacation and may not post, but if not, I'm committing to returning to the subject of church growth the following week. Meanwhile, this week I'm addressing the UUSC's "Justice Sunday" in worship, and thought this blog would be a good place to post this video on the subject.