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Showing posts with label Church growth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Church growth. Show all posts
Saturday, June 1, 2019

Why do people go to church?

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Why do people go to church?  Fewer and fewer people go to church these days especially in mainline religions in the U.S. and Europe. Ch...
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Sunday, May 26, 2019

Brockport Unitarian Universalist Fellowship - BUUF - Birth and death of a UU congregation

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The idea for the Brockport Unitarian Universalist Fellowship was born on Mother's Day in 2009. This interview with Don Zimmer was done...
Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Success stories - How congregations grow.

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"Success stories" is a regular feature of the UU A Way Of Life ministries blog which appear on Wednesdays. Ashley: What's ha...
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Monday, September 18, 2017

Why do you or don't you go to church?

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Celebrate the ties that unite us is a sermon preached at All Soul's in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Sunday, 09/17/17. It is a wonderful sermon th...
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Tuesday, September 5, 2017

UU: Sunday morning fellowship or a way of life?

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Bill you asked how UU A Way Of Life got its name. It comes from several sources all of which contributed to the idea that Unitairan Univer...
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Monday, August 21, 2017

Lack of security contributes to UU unhappiness

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Dear UU A Way Of Life: I don't find UUs an especially happy group. If anything I find them the opposite. They seem ready to argue over...
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Sunday, July 9, 2017

Is Unitarian Universalism losing members because it demands too little of them?

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Some UUs have asked why their denomination is shrinking and losing members. In the U.S., religious affiliation has been declining with the...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Is it too easy to become a Unitarian Universalist?

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I orignally posted this article on another blog, I used to write, called "ChaliceFire" when I was a member of the Pullman Memorial...
Friday, February 11, 2011

BUUF - From Good To A Great Church

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I want the Brockport Unitarian Universalist Fellowship not to just be a good church, I want us to be a great church. Jim Collins wrote a b...
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.

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In Kate Tweedie Erslev's book, Full Circle: Fifteen Ways To Grow Lifelong UUs, she quotes a person who commented on her survey: "I ...
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Sunday, April 25, 2010

As far as religious identification goes, the "nones" are growing rapidly

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Yesterday, Steve Caldwell, posted an excellent article on his blog Liberal Faith Development, entitled "UUA Demographic Trends and ...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

Why do people go to church?

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Why do people go to church? Perhaps, I should do a qualitive research project and ask people why they come to church. What are my hypotheses...
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Monday, April 19, 2010

Dealing with conflict is an important part of growing our congregations

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In reading Kate Tweedie Erslev's book Full Circle: Fifteen Ways To Grow Lifelong UUs, I've come to the chapter entitled, "Prepa...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Many are called but few are chosen

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I am wondering if part of the problem of declining membership in the UUA is that the denomination tries to be too many things to too many pe...
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

UUA membership declining

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The UUWorld reported on 04/12/10 that the UUA membership is declining. "A year ago UUA membership declined by 132 members for a total ...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

What kind of a community are we? - Rev. Michael Schuler

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Rev. Michael Schuler preached a great sermon on 09/13/09 entilted, "What Kind Of A Community Are We?" That's a question that a...
Sunday, February 28, 2010

Here's how you grow a church - Watch carefully

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Friday, February 26, 2010

Do the people at First Unitarian Society at Madison have balls bigger than an elephant?

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"The First Unitarian Society of Madison has for better than two decades presented a countercultural message and has seen our membership...
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Is the purpose of church transformation?

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Yesterday I received my copy of the new book, The Growing Church: Keys To Congregational Vitality, edited by Thom Belote. The first essay is...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

Purpose of the church

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Father Richard Rohr tells the story of the Lifesaving Station which becomes a comfortable social club whose function winds up being self mai...