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Comment on Occupy Your Faith – A Boston Unitarian Universalist Revival by Scott Harris

Scott Harris — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:20:15 +0000

We need to do this in the Seattle area!!

Comment on Announcing my departure from the Ballou Channing District by Giving Speaks

Giving Speaks — Sun, 06 May 2012 20:47:53 +0000

Congratulations, Peter! Thank you for your service to our BCD congregations and beyond. I wish you the very best. Laurel

Comment on Announcing my departure from the Ballou Channing District by Nate Walker

Nate Walker — Sat, 05 May 2012 02:45:41 +0000

I’m excited for you, Peter! Best wies! ~ Nate

Comment on Announcing my departure from the Ballou Channing District by greygoddess

greygoddess — Sat, 05 May 2012 00:51:07 +0000

Celebrating your Ministry of Communications, Peter ~ go forth and share the good word with our UU congregations AND with the wider world… may this ministry live long, and may it prosper! Theadora

Comment on Announcing my departure from the Ballou Channing District by Peter Bowden

Peter Bowden — Fri, 04 May 2012 23:56:49 +0000

Thanks, Lincoln. Looking forward to it. See you in Phoenix.

Comment on Announcing my departure from the Ballou Channing District by Lincoln William Statler

Lincoln William Statler — Fri, 04 May 2012 20:36:27 +0000

Woo hoo!!!!

Good luck on your next leg of work!

Comment on Congregations and Beyond by Peter Bowden

Peter Bowden — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:55:09 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Ron. I’m expect we will soon see many more congregations using live streaming, chat and new membership categories to allow people to participate in “local” congregations I this way. What CLF is pioneering via online worship will, I suspect, become part of what many congregations will offer in the not too distant future.

Comment on Congregations and Beyond by Ron Stevens

Ron Stevens — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:27:31 +0000

In my present “longtime UU but presently un-churched” status I rely heavily on the internet resources of local congregations, especially those from All Souls in Tulsa (my former congregation before I moved to another city). All Souls still is, in significant ways, my home congregation. If they were to start some form of extension or hybrid-membership status I would be happy to pledge my support to that, and I believe there are others (in this country and beyond) who also would do the same.

I’m currently in conversation with their media people to have their live-streamed Sunday services made available on their All Souls Livestream.com page so that we can also use the chat feature to interact with one another (globally) before, during and after the services, even though we are unable to physically attend the services. (CLF does something similar with their pre-recorded services.) This combination of live streamed video and personalized interaction (possibly including staff from All Souls) I think is very much in line with the Congregations and Beyond philosophy.

And, yes, I also agree with June that the congregation’s sense of vision and mission must precede and make possible such extension activities, rather than vice versa.

Comment on Rev. Marlin Lavanhar on Trayvon Martin and the New Jim Crow by JO

JO — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:45:19 +0000

Calling Rev. Marlin Lavanhar, some hoodie wearing youths need your attention:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/brutal-attack-by-philly-teens-on-wounded-vietnam-vet-caught-on-video/

Comment on Rev. Marlin Lavanhar on Trayvon Martin and the New Jim Crow by JO

JO — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:27:52 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom

Where was Rev. Marlin Lavanhar? Did he wear a T ball cap in support of the victims?