Updated UUA Membership Statistics For 2009 Are Now Available And U*Us Can Thanks Me For Prodding The U*Us At 25 Beacon Street To Make Them Public. . .
The updated official UUA membership statistics for the American incarnation of The Tiny Declining Fringe Religion from the 1961 Unitarian Universalist "corporate merger" right up to 2009 are now available for all to see on the official UUA website here. The older "less than up to date" UUA membership statistics are still available on the UUA website here, and here are some partial UUA statistics for the period 2001-2005.
For the record The Emerson Avenger freely and responsibly prodded the "less than conscientious" U*Us at the UUA to finally get around to providing the updated membership statistics which were out of date by almost a decade when I suggested that it was time to update them and make them publicly available so that U*Us can see for themselves how The Tiny Declining Fringe religion is doing these days. . .
The Emerson Avenger takes note of the fact that the number of UUA congregations is "less than stable" and that the UUA only has a "less than lucky" 13 congregations more than it had way back in 1961.
Can U*Us say *stagnation*?
The Emerson Avenger *also* takes note of the fact that the number of UUA *fellowshipped* U*U ministers has dramatically risen from 856 ministers in fellowship in 1961 to an all time high of 1,752 ministers in fellowship in 2009. . . In fact The Emerson Avenger has been aware of this high number of U*U ministers for some time now.
Can U*Us say *surplus* U*U ministers and Big Fat U*U financial *deficit* in the same breath?
Maybe The U*U Movement could do worse than to purge itself of some of those "less than excellent" ministers that this blog talks about. Forgive me for being somewhat simplistic, but it seems to me that the UUA *could* defellowship a whopping 704 fellowshipped U*U ministers and still have one fellowshipped minister per congregation. I am not suggesting that the UUA do so however since there may well be some good reasons for *some* UUA congregations to have more than one fellowshipped minister. I am not convinced however that the UUA *really* needs 704 more fellowshipped U*U ministers than there are U*U congregrations. It seems that as many as two ot three hundred U*U ministers, especially those of the "less than excellent" variety, could be defellowshipped and there would still be plenty of extra aka surplus U*U ministers left behind as it were.
For the record The Emerson Avenger freely and responsibly prodded the "less than conscientious" U*Us at the UUA to finally get around to providing the updated membership statistics which were out of date by almost a decade when I suggested that it was time to update them and make them publicly available so that U*Us can see for themselves how The Tiny Declining Fringe religion is doing these days. . .
The Emerson Avenger takes note of the fact that the number of UUA congregations is "less than stable" and that the UUA only has a "less than lucky" 13 congregations more than it had way back in 1961.
Can U*Us say *stagnation*?
The Emerson Avenger *also* takes note of the fact that the number of UUA *fellowshipped* U*U ministers has dramatically risen from 856 ministers in fellowship in 1961 to an all time high of 1,752 ministers in fellowship in 2009. . . In fact The Emerson Avenger has been aware of this high number of U*U ministers for some time now.
Can U*Us say *surplus* U*U ministers and Big Fat U*U financial *deficit* in the same breath?
Maybe The U*U Movement could do worse than to purge itself of some of those "less than excellent" ministers that this blog talks about. Forgive me for being somewhat simplistic, but it seems to me that the UUA *could* defellowship a whopping 704 fellowshipped U*U ministers and still have one fellowshipped minister per congregation. I am not suggesting that the UUA do so however since there may well be some good reasons for *some* UUA congregations to have more than one fellowshipped minister. I am not convinced however that the UUA *really* needs 704 more fellowshipped U*U ministers than there are U*U congregrations. It seems that as many as two ot three hundred U*U ministers, especially those of the "less than excellent" variety, could be defellowshipped and there would still be plenty of extra aka surplus U*U ministers left behind as it were.
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