Thursday, 09 September 2010, 02:52 am PDT
Featured Ministers
Ghost Bicycle
Two Ghost Bicycles have appeared in my life, both on the same street, my major commuting street, about five miles apart. Ghost bicycles commemorate bicyclists killed or severely injured, usu... [read more]
iMinister
Get mad at Girlfriend, Kill a bunch of people.
It's a common formula. It happened today, here in Albuquerque. It happens a lot. Here are some of the most infamous. .which is to say, the ones where more than two people died. T... [read more]
iMinister
The Secret of Kells
Our son the animator took us out to see this lovely film tonight, an imaginative, loving, and visually rich little story about how one of humanity's greatest books might have come into being. ... [read more]
iMinister
Thirty Years in Ministry
There was a kind of strange movie out a few years ago, called “Into Great Silence” It was a movie about a monestary so austere that the monks live in silence and solitude, eating most mea... [read more]
iMinister
Let's Lose That Word, "Hate".
I'm sorry to say that I know Hate. I know it from news of young men tied to fence posts and left to die in a snowstorm because other young men were afraid of their sexuality. I know it... [read more]
iMinister
Macaroon Season
i Minister has a friend who has been writing a Passover Haggadah for about a decade (It's a very cool interfaith sort of Haggadah which has finally been published with layout by my husband. .. you... [read more]
iMinister
Facebook-Security
The Rev. Cynthia Landrum has some good tips about Facebook's security settings. .. a good review for everyone, which you can find here [read more]
iMinister
adddendum to Multi-site Bibliography
Alban Institute's Susan Beaumont has written about the emerging area of multi-site in mainline congregations here: She has some interesting observations from her work, and the differen... [read more]
iMinister
The Blogger's Hot Stove, week II
This will be most of the news that's fit to print about the matchmaking between UU churches and ministers. Here is the list of candidates as far as I know them. I hear that five chur... [read more]
iMinister
Facebook for Ministers -Boundaries
A colleague has asked about Facebook for Ministers, specifically, how to use Facebook without encouraging or (heaven forbid) engaging in boundary violations, and how to use Facebook without it... [read more]
iMinister
Facebook: A Time Sink?
If you've decided to use Facebook in your ministry, then you will want to use it efficiently. The most important way to do this is to use the "hide" function. If you hover your... [read more]
iMinister
Why Facebook for Ministers?
A colleague has asked me why she should be involved in Facebook, what the boundary issues are, and how to not let it be a time sink. Good questions. Here are my answers. One reason to b... [read more]
iMinister
Guest Postings
The Rev. Harlan Limpert, VP of the UUA, has asked to be an author on this blog to get input and feedback about ministerial matters from this distinguished group of readers. He will write more about... [read more]
iMinister
Blogger's Hot Stove
The real "hot stove" list of invitations from churches to ministers to candidate is being kept on Facebook this year. Some people are still slogging away without Facebook, and f... [read more]
iMinister
Hot Stove II: The Cooperative Enterprise
Posting all the candidates for new UU pulpits as they are announced in the next week is a big job and I'll need lots of help. For starters, the list of churches in search is always a work in... [read more]
iMinister
the "Hot Stove"
Because my church has an intern and staff member in search and is itself in search, and because I was listed as a reference for several colleagues in search, I've taken a greater-than-usual intere... [read more]
iMinister
Twittering
i Minister has made a discipline of studying the Tao Te Ching for many years. At the moment she has set herself to creating a twitter reminder of each chapter. (Twitter rules: only 140 charac... [read more]
iMinister
Thought for the Day
I have three treasures Simplicity, Patience, Compassion -Tao Te Ching [read more]
iMinister
Multi-Site Bibliography
One church meeting at multiple locations is a very hot trend in American church life, for lots of reasons. I wish it were a hotter trend in the Unitarian Universalist world, but two churches are a... [read more]
iMinister
Continuing the dialogue on credentialing
Earl Koteen replies here to Wayne Arneson's post which is, here. Here are my thoughts on his thoughts:On the subject of who should be involved in credentialing ministers. .. I think that our curr... [read more]
iMinister
More on Ministerial Credentialing
Some interesting comments about the MFC and our credentialing process here [read more]
iMinister
What Would I Do About Credentialing?
David asks what I would do. The most important thing I would do is study, talk to people, and learn, not only in our denomination but from other faith communities, for the potential for unintended... [read more]
iMinister
A Modest Proposal on Credentialing
I am remembering back about 15 years, when John Weston re-worked the settlement process. When I first entered ministry, the process could only be described as paternalistic. The Settlement Direct... [read more]
iMinister
Yet More Voices on Ministerial Credentialing
Polity Wonk has an interesting, extensive reform proposal here. Calling Ministers asks the crucial question, "What does a minister look (sound, feel) like" ( in a credentialing inter... [read more]
iMinister
Blogging, Facebook, and Collegial Conversations on Credentialing
This Blog appears automatically on my Facebook page, and I have noticed in the past few months that there are more comments on my blog on my Facebook page than on the blog itself. So, if you want ... [read more]