Cyber-Sermon Surfers are
volunteers who search the Internet
for potential cyber-sermons for FUUCI
to distribute.
While they search for the very best in UU thinking,
they also identify sermon lists already on the Internet
which might be linked from the Cyber-Sermon
Registry:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/Y-SERNET.html
Each
month, the members of FUUCI
are asked in a special update to 'fans',
which of the three proposals for cyber-sermons
they would like to read next.
The proposal with the most votes is distributed
as the cyber-sermon-of-the-month.
The UU movement
produces
literally hundreds of new sermons each week.
At least one or two of these should be appropriate
for
transformation into cyber-sermons to be
distributed by FUUCI
and posted on the FUUCI website.
And ministers who write their sermons on
computers
will find it especially easy to create much
shorter versions.
To
find the best candidates
for cyber-sermons,
go to the following URL to begin browsing
for good sermons:
http://www.uua.org/CONG/congmain.html
This URL a listing of UU congregations with
websites.
They are organized alphabetically by state
or province.
Within each state or province,
they are alphabetical by city or town.
In
order to avoid duplication
of effort,
Cyber-Sermon Surfers choose one or two states
as their primary hunting ground.
These are listed here:
In
2003, James Park surfed
all of the Prairie Star District:
Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska,
North Dakota, South Dakota, & Wisconsin.
(The eastern part of Wisconsin is in the
Central Midwest District,
but it is more convenient to do the whole
state,
which is the way the list of congregations
is organized by the UUA
and by the Cyber-Sermon Registry.)
These 8 states had 46
congregations with websites.
12 of these had sermons posted on their
websites.
If his proportion holds for other states,
about 25% of congregations with websites
will have full-length sermons posted for
all to read.
(This proportion has probably risen significantly since 2003.
Hence there are probably many more UU sermons on-line.)
So
far, all other areas are unclaimed.
To claim another area—a
state, part of a state, or several states, etc.—
indicate your area to the webmaster,
James Park: PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU
,
who will post it here to avoid duplication
of effort.
ADD SERMON LISTS TO THE CYBER-SERMON REGISTRY
Cyber-Sermon Surfers should
encourage the minister or webmaster
to have their local collection of full-length
sermons added to
the comprehensive listing of full-length
sermons on the Internet:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/Y-SERNET.html
Simply follow the style set by the previous
listings:
Full Name of the congregation
Geographical location of the congregation, including country
URL that leads directly to the sermon list
Approximate number of sermons in the collection
Name of the minister or ministers
When a Cyber-Sermon
Surfer locates a full-length sermon
that might be appropriate as a cyber-sermon
for FUUCI,
he or she should send an e-mail to the author
explaining what a cyber-sermon is
and encourage him or her to create a one-page
proposal
(a synopsis and outline of the proposed
cyber-sermon)
which can be voted on by the FUUCI members.
This process of making a proposal is explained
more fully here:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/YO.html
This URL also lists several proposals already
received.
Read the reflections of
some Cyber-Sermon Surfers
.
For a full explanation
of the Cyber-Sermon
Registry
,
click those words.
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