# MOC · United Church of Christ ## Founding-era primary source - [[Horton — The United Church of Christ — Source Passages]] — Layer 1, 89 passages, `P-####` IDs - [[2026-07-25 The United Church of Christ — Reading Notes]] — full Work the Book chain, Prompts 0–13 - [[UCC Statement of Faith]] — literature note on the 1959 founding doctrinal text, connected to [[A Revision Is Legitimate in Proportion to Its Auditability]] rather than duplicating that permanent note ## Insider critique - Gunnemann, *United and Uniting: The Meaning of an Ecclesial Journey* (Readwise, aqua highlights) - Gunnemann, *The Shaping of the United Church of Christ* (Readwise) ## Corrective histories to seek - Zikmund, ed., *Hidden Histories in the United Church of Christ*, vols. 1–2 - Court records, 1950–53 New York litigation, and contemporaneous Congregational Christian dissenter pamphlets ## Derived notes - [[Perm · Integrating a marginalized groups separate structures can transfer their authority upward]] - See [[MOC · Voluntary Federation Governance]] for the polity-derived notes ## Live gaps - Chapters IV (Sacraments) and XI–XV (regional bodies, mission boards, 86 pp.) and XIX unread - The dissenters case — characterized by Horton, never stated - Black leadership in the denomination, absent from a 1962 chapter on race - Womens institutional power before and after the 1961 integration of mens and womens work ## Church communications & worship (DevRel cross-application) - [[Digital Evangelism Creating Community with Social Media]] — UCC church-communications webinar whose claims cross-apply directly to DevRel community management - [[A Collective Voice Signals a Living Community Not One Broadcaster]] — permanent note distilled from the digital-evangelism webinar - [[Intentional Engagement Builds Durable Community Better Than Reach]] — permanent note distilled from the digital-evangelism webinar - [[Open and Affirming Sunday (June 28, 2026)]] — UCC ONA worship kit; its welcome-vs-affirmation claim was already captured in [[Affirmation Blesses What God Has Blessed Rather Than Merely Tolerating Presence]] - [[A Single Controlling Metaphor Forms Worship More Durably Than Many]] — permanent note distilled from the ONA worship kit's single-controlling-metaphor claim - [[Fostering Vitality - Liturgical Resources for a Faithful and Vital Church]] — mainline UCC liturgical-planning resource, cross-linked to the Discipleship Deficit literature note on the same measurement-tension theme - [[Institutions Facing Numeric Decline Can Relocate Success Toward Faithfulness]] — permanent note distilled from the Fostering Vitality liturgical resource ## Practice context St. Johns UCC, Chambersburg worship recordings (Readwise) · UCC [Constitution and Bylaws](https://www.ucc.org/who-we-are/constitution-and-bylaws/) · UCC [official history](https://www.ucc.org/who-we-are/about/history/) ## Synthesis additions (2026-10-05 — registering a disability-inclusion note) - [[3. Resources/Permanent Notes/A Low-Cost Worship Kit Lets a Congregation Without Budget Begin Disability Inclusion]] — from the Access Sunday 2026 stream: a denominational worship kit and practices that the speakers say cost little can let a congregation begin disability inclusion without waiting on a budget ## Synthesis additions (2026-10-14 — denominational communications) - [[3. Resources/Readwise/Articles/UCC Reporter's Roundtable LIVE]] — UCC News roundtable on the year's top stories, presented by UCC employees; several claims carry no source in the transcript. - [[3. Resources/Permanent Notes/An In-House Newsroom Earns Trust by Stating Its Independence Rule]] — the captured transcript shows editorial meetings but no stated rule for covering the denomination's own leaders.