Taylor B. Russell is the Innovation & Engagement Research Specialist for the UCC Center for Analytics, Research & Development, and Data. She is also the administrator for Access UCC, the online version of the Yearbook & Directory. This week, we’re highlighting a Special Report from the 2022 UCC Statistical Profile, written by the Rev. Roberto Ochoa,…
There is an old joke about a dog food company that was failing. The CEO called her top executives together and railed at them. “Why is our product such a loser?” she snapped. “We have the best people, the best kitchens, and the best marketing and advertising campaign. We deliver our product to the best…
The last church I served was so rural that the pastor who followed me opened the church door one day to find a groundhog charging down the center aisle of the sanctuary. A church member not much older than I could remember her one-room schoolhouse. These days I serve a church just a few miles…
Does the United Church of Christ (UCC) have a big-city, big-church, liberal bias? I’ve been hearing UCC lay people—and remarkably, pastors—level this charge, in three different Conferences and in various churches, since my “privilege-of-call” days in the Potomac Association of the Central Atlantic Conference in the early 1990s. Two recent instances: This past spring, a…
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