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Developing Spiritual Community: July 2011
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Saturday, 30 July 2011. What attaches people to their community. Surfing the Internet for something about soulful community I came across a site. About a project called Soul of the Community. What makes a community a desirable place to live? What draws people to stake their future in it? Are communities with more attached residents better off? Whilst our meeting houses, chapels and churches are not neighbourhoods it is worth thinking about these three characteristics. Friday, 29 July 2011. We have to be ...
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Governance4Unitarians: Some resources for looking after buildings
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Saturday, June 23, 2012. Some resources for looking after buildings. Video on church maintenance. The sound is fine but I had problems getting the visuals. English Heritage Maintenance Plan. Free risk assessment tool kit. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Adrian Worsfold's Blog 'Pluralist Speaks'. Communication Commission's summary of Unitarian blog. Living in the Question. You, Me and Religion. Some resources for looking after buildings. View my complete profile.
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Governance4Unitarians: November 2011
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011. How to win friends and influence people. Was in a discussion about the future direction of the Unitarian community. The thread started by an EC member (the only one who engages on Facebook) begins thus. I'm on the EC. Throw things if you like! But I think he was only joking! My contribution was summed up by him as. Louise Rogers questions's Jen's view that youth are essential to our future . So I did not say that the choices weren't difficult just that they were similar to w...
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Governance4Unitarians: July 2011
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Saturday, July 30, 2011. Working with our beneficiaries. Having an interview certainly does stimulate my thinking. One of the questions that is often asked at an interview for voluntary sector jobs is about user-involvement. This can be a bit tricky especially if you are a user-involvement cynic like myself. I know which one I'd choose. When the choice made is user-involvement, more professionals get employed and money gets taken from front-line services. If we think about our own communities we talk mor...
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Developing Spiritual Community: March 2012
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Thursday, 22 March 2012. A sense of place. Local communities are about people. But is that all? Our Meeting House was built on a shoestring in 1717 so it is not per se a beautiful building. I am not a particularly visual person and cannot imagine any photograph could encapsulate what I feel about the Meeting House or the chapel within it. When we use the word 'home' we can feel a warm fuzziness full of emotional content. How would I encapsulate that for our beloved Meeting House? Tuesday, 13 March 2012.
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Governance4Unitarians: Collective responsibility
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012. This blog represents what I think, it does not represent what my local community thinks. But how can we be sure that people understand which hat (or none) we are wearing? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Adrian Worsfold's Blog 'Pluralist Speaks'. Communication Commission's summary of Unitarian blog. Living in the Question. You, Me and Religion. View my complete profile. Ethereal template. Powered by Blogger.
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Developing Spiritual Community: August 2011
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Wednesday, 31 August 2011. The nature of services when developing spiritual community. One thing that I have noticed at our Meeting House is that our services are moving away from 'services' and developing into conversations. There is often no sermon. The question, 'what does this all mean for our community? Is never far away. The service then becomes an open conversation within the community about what is valued and our developing spirituality. S about whether we can agree about what ministry is about.
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Governance4Unitarians: June 2012
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Saturday, June 23, 2012. Some resources for looking after buildings. Video on church maintenance. The sound is fine but I had problems getting the visuals. English Heritage Maintenance Plan. Free risk assessment tool kit. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Adrian Worsfold's Blog 'Pluralist Speaks'. Communication Commission's summary of Unitarian blog. Living in the Question. You, Me and Religion. Some resources for looking after buildings. View my complete profile. Ethereal template. Powered by Blogger.
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Developing Spiritual Community: Rocky roads
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Saturday, 26 May 2012. When we are attempting to do this within a faith community we have to work out for ourselves how we deal with our frustrations - personal and community-focused. We are all called to have faith. Faith in the road - not necessarily any particular direction - but in the imperative to keep putting one foot in front of the other on this road. Or 'Am I really with the right people? There are times when we feel that our needs are not being met - perhaps we have changed or other people hav...
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Developing Spiritual Community: April 2012
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Tuesday, 17 April 2012. Long may my local community contain people who are moved by experiences of the divine. Long may it contain those who don't. And long may we continue to explore these things amicably together and amicably apart. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Adrian Worsfold's Blog Pluralist Speaks. Living in the Question. You, Me and Religion. View my complete profile. Ethereal template. Powered by Blogger.
