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UU 2.0 - The Emergent Church and New Media

Required/Recommended Readings/Activities - Spring 2009, April 27 - 29, 2009

Required readings

Whence Hermeneutic Authority (both the paper and the Power Point slide show) by Tony Jones, Wheaton Conference, 2007

The New Connectivity: How Internet Innovations are Changing the Way We Do Church by Andrea Useem (Alban Institute) - pdf file

Read and view the following websites until the next convocation

The UU Two Point 0 blog on the Greenfield Group site where readings, papers, presentations and responses will be posted
BLOG IS LIVE - Enter the blog here!!.

Emergent Village- http://www.emergentvillage.com

UU Planet - http://www.uuplanet.tv/

Reverend- X - http://liberal-religion.org/

Discover UU - http://www.discoveruu.com/

Pick and follow two UU blogs and one podcast for 6 months

Tony Lorenzen's is Sunflower Chalice - http://www.sunflowerchalice.com/

Rosemary McNatt's is Rev. Rose - http://revrose.com/

Join two social networks and articipate in these networks until the next convocation

Facebook (the entire UUMA is on by now it seems) - http://www.facebook.com/

Creative Worship Tour - http://www.creativeworshiptour.com/

Recommended  Web Sites and Readings

Here are two great links relevant to the Spring Convocation

Here's video on new media literacies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEHcGAsnBZE&eurl=http://www.religioused.org/tensegrities/

And here is a great new post on Creative Worship Tour

http://www.creativeworshiptour.com/profiles/blogs/planning-nontraditional

Here are the Recommended readings

1. The Almost Church: Redefining Unitarian Universalism for a New Era by Michael Durall

2. The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier by Tony Jones

3. Silver Screen, Sacred Story: Using Multi-Media in Worship by Michael G. Bausch

4. Worship that Works by Wayne Arnason and Kathleen Rolenz

5. Inventing the Great Awakening by Frank Lambert

6. Mr. Lincoln's T Mails: How Abraham Lincoln used the Telegraph to win the Civil War by Tom Wheeler

 

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