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Improving your User Experience (UX), online and in person (Part 3)
In this day and age, peoples’ experience with our UU congregations and groups typically begins online. They engage with our websites, Facebook pages, and Twitter feeds, and the feelings and conclusions...
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It Starts And Ends In Love
The following post by Rev. Cynthia Cain was first featured by Standing on the Side of Love. Dedication of Black Lives Matter sign on August 23, 2015. Sign was defaced 10 days later. Not long after I...
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What if membership was a spectrum?
Created by Carey McDonald, UUA Outreach Director, Lori Emison Clair, Consultant, and Marie Blohowiak, Congregational Life Coordinator and UUAMP Vice President As Unitarian Universalists, we have a...
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Deepening Faith: How Can We Reverse The Trend?
This past year, we’ve been busy looking at ways that youth engage with their congregations, Unitarian Universalism and new trends in youth ministry. We surveyed over 350 youth about their favorite...
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Multi-Site Ministries: contrasts merging, moving forward together
Partnerships sometimes emerge in strange but exciting ways. The Partnership of the UU congregations in Binghamton NY and Cortland NY is a mix of contrasting sizes, ages and histories. But these...
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Partnership across the River
Augusta Bridge Reflections by Gene Bowker The sister Unitarian Universalist congregations of Augusta, Georgia and Aiken, South Carolina straddle either side of the Savannah River. But the fact that...
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I’m Lost, But I’m Making Record Time
I heard the quote in the title of this blog as a young pilot many years ago. A World War II pilot radioed that report in –he had no idea where he was, but he was making great progress somewhere. As a...
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When Superman Goes Home: Pastoral Care in A World of Limits
At Lake Country Unitarian Universalist Church our pastoral care team, the Caring Circle, was and is an amazing group of people. They get a call and they spring into action. Food. Transportation. Lawn...
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Gingerbread and Engaging Space
On my way to work in Boston I walk past the Boston Society of Architecture. Its storefront is attractive, but hasn’t been overtly noticeable to me until this holiday season. I do see people through...
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Becoming a Multi-Everything Faith
When I was asked to do a presentation for my start-up at the First Unitarian Church of Honolulu in 2011, I immediately thought of a growth strategy that didn’t just involve numbers and finances (the...
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Faith Forward
Newcomers to First Unitarian Church of Dallas arrive at our doors seeking a path. The Unitarian Universalist tendency to tell people they can believe whatever they want and get involved in whatever...
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MultiSite Ministries: Economies of Scale
The Rev. Peter Morales, president of the UUA said, “Growth and sharing our faith is a moral obligation.” Beginning with the 2013-2014 church year, the UU Church of Canandaigua NY and First Unitarian...
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Meaning Makers
“The closest UU congregation is far away and I don’t have a car” “There’s no UU group at my college” “I work the brunch shift Sunday mornings but I still need spiritual community” “I miss the peer...
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This Here Is Some Radical Polity
The subject of the email was: “If we set a date, it will happen”. It was sent to a small group of Canadian Young Adults who’d been talking in pockets and clusters for a while about how to “do...
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Reflection on Moving, Wisdom, Humility, and Reaching Out
Last week I took a quick trip to Boston to attend Terasa Cooley’s good-bye party and to meet, in person, with several colleagues who normally are only in my zoom room on my computer screen. The...
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Road Trip! We’re better together!
We’re better together. You’ve heard this before. And often it is in the context of pooling resources to create something larger than we could offer as a separate entity. I’m hear to tell you that...
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4 Things Crowdfunding Can Teach The Church
I became a Unitarian Universalist for one reason, and one reason only. You might have many reasons why you became a Unitarian Universalist, or remained one if you grew up within the faith. I have only...
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Tops Picks for Growth at General Assembly
Are you looking for new ideas to grow your congregation? General Assembly is just around the corner, and there are a dozen workshops on growth to choose from. Here’s a list, sorted by topic for you to...
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Sophia Fahs Sunday 2016
So many of us are longing to be a part of an authentic multigenerational community. A place where children, youth, adults, and elders share, learn, worship and grow together. We believe one of the most...
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Starting a RACI Conversation
Photo used and cropped with permission: http://tinyurl.com/j4ygsuh At first glance, it seemed like the evening news did a good job of covering this year’s Pride Parade. After all, the Minister of the...
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