Dan Hotchkiss

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2010. “Funding Growth and Outreach.” Clergy Journal, July-August (republished as “Funding for Today and Tomorrow,” Alban Weekly, July 7, 2010).

2010. “Don’t Underestimate the System Delays.” Clergy Journal, May-June.

2010. “Who Owns your Congregation?” (excerpt of Governance and Ministry) UU World, spring.

2010. “When to Adopt New Technology.” Clergy Journal, Jan-Feb.

2010. “Putting Money Where your Mission Is.” Congregations, winter.

2009. “Stewardship and Simple Thinking.” Clergy Journal, Sept.-Oct.

2009. “The Leadership Retreat: Prayer, Practicalities, or Both?” Congregations, fall.

2009. “Why Pay the Preacher?” Clergy Journal, Nov-Dec.

2009. “From Mainline to Sideline.” Clergy Journal, July-Aug.

2009. “Planning and the Budget.” Clergy Journal. May-June.

2009. Governance and Ministry: Rethinking Board Leadership. An Alban Institute book.

2009. “Conflicts of Interest: How to Avoid, Identify, and Troubleshoot them.” Congregations, summer.

2009. “The End of Abundance?” Giving: Growing Joyful Stewards in Your Congregation, a publication of the Ecumenical Stewardship Center, Indianapolis.

2009. “The Art of Governance,” Alban Weekly, April 20.

2009. “Making Do with Less.” Clergy Journal. March.

2009. “Getting By when Churches Have to Make Do with Less.” Church Executive, March. Also reprinted here.

2009. “Ministry in Hard Times.” Clergy Journal, January-February.

2008. “Building for Worship.” Clergy Journal, December.

2008. “That’s the Way the Money Goes.” Clergy Journal, October.

2008. “The Trouble with Tithing,” Clergy Journal, September.

2008. “From the Pulpit to the Public Square.” Clergy Journal, August.

2008. “When Personal Loyalties and Ministry Responsibilities Collide: Understanding Conflicts of Interest is Imperative to Successful Board Governance.” Church Executive, July.

2008. “Planning Fallacies.” Clergy Journal, June.

2008. “Ask Alban: Searching without Dividing.” Congregations, spring.

2008. “Book Review: Speaking to Silence by Janet S. Peterman.” Congregations , spring.

2008. “Peace and Money.” Clergy Journal, April.

2008. “Who Owns a Congregation?” Clergy Journal, March.

2008. “Shaping Up for Ministry.” Clergy Journal, February.

2007. “Investing in Access to Worship.” Clergy Journal , December. Republished on the website of the National Organization on Disability Religion and Disability Program.

2007. “The Casino Quandary.” Clergy Journal, October.

2007. “Conflicts of Interest.” Clergy Journal, September. Audio podcast. Ask Alban version: “Controlling Conflicts of Interest.”

2007. “Planning to Grow.” Clergy Journal, August.

2007. “All I Really Needed to Know I Learned at Work.” Clergy Journal , May.

2007. “Action on Poverty.” Clergy Journal , April.

2007. “Yellow Tickets and the Way We Tick.” Clergy Journal , March.

2007. “A Discerner’s Guide to Congregational Governance.” Congregations: The Alban Journal, spring.

2007. “Ask Alban: Re-inventing Boards that Bore: Overcoming Micromanagement.” Congregations , spring.

2007. “The Stewardship of Risk.” Clergy Journal , February.

2006. “Committees and Control of Money.” Clergy Journal , December.

2006. “Why We Do What We Do.” Clergy Journal , October.

2006. “What is the Mission of ‘Missions’?” Clergy Journal , September.

2006. “Relocating the Clergy Ego.” Clergy Journal , August.

2006. “The American 21st Century Transatlantic Relationship with Europe and Eurasia,” Stolberg at the International Affairs Conference on Star Island. The Sandpiper 45, July.

2006. Pretending to Be Equal,” Clergy Journal , May-June.

2006. “Green Eyeshades and Rose-Colored Glasses.” Clergy Journal , April.

2006. “The Post-Construction Blues.” Clergy Journal , March.

2006. “The Tragedy of the Commons.” Clergy Journal , February.

2006. “Ask Alban: Choosing Your Next Clergy Leader.” Congregations , spring, 44.

2005. “The Elephant in the Boardroom: Review of Speaking the Unspoken about Pastoral Transitions, by Carolyn Weese and J. Russell Crabtree.” spring.

2005. “Planning for Social Ministry.” Alban Weekly, July 18.

2005. “Learning from nonprofits: How church boards can benefit from nonprofit practices.” Congregations, 28-34.

2005. “Ask Alban: Is it Wise to Hire Members?” Congregations, summer, 44.

2004. “Faith and Money.” Congregational Resource Guide .

2004. “Faith and Money.” P. 250 in www.congregationalresources.org: A Guide to Resources for Building Congregational Vitality . Edited by Richard Bass, Alban Institute.

2004. “Snapshot of Church Finances.” Alban Weekly , July.

2004. “How to Manage Money Morally.” Clergy Journal , February, 7 – 10.

2004. “Ask Alban: The Spiritual Challenge of Clergy Transition.” Congregations , summer.

2003. “What We Learned at Work.” Alban in Progress.

2003. “Reframing Financial Success.” Alban In Progress.

2003. “Money and the Spirit: It’s Time to Talk about Money at Church.” UU World 2003:14-17.

2002. “Book Review: The New Context for Ministry: Competing for the Charitable Dollar by Lyle E. Schaller.” Congregations , December, 33 – 34.

2002. “Book Review: The Big Book of Presbyterian Stewardship by Barnett, Gordon, and Hendrix.” Congregations , April, 32-33.

2002. Ministry and Money: A Guide for Clergy and their Friends . Alban Institute.

2002. “Salary Anxiety,” Congregations , October.

2001. “Looking Back: Wartime Origins of the Flaming Chalice.” UU World , June, 72.

Mann, Alice, David Trietsch, and Dan Hotchkiss. 2001. “Beginnings of a Theory of Synagogue Size.” Pp. 75 – 83 in Size Transitions in Congregations , edited by Beth Gaede. Alban Institute.

Mann, Alice, David Trietsch, and Dan Hotchkiss. 2001. “Searching for the Key: Developing a Theory of Synagogue Size.” Congregations 27 no 1 Ja-F 2001 .

2001. “Book Review: Ask and You Shall Receive by Kim Klein.” Congregations, June, 30.

2001. “Ask Alban: Setting Up an Endowment Fund.” Congregations, 36.

2001. “A Soul Decision: The Competing Claims of Faith and Money.” Congregations, December, 19 – 21.

2000. “When Ministers Call 911.” Congregations, June.

2000. “Mann’s Workshop on Synagogue Size Yields New Avenues for Research.” Congregations, December.

1999. “Ministry Committees Observed.” First Days Record, May.

1999. “Charles Joy and the Flaming Chalice Symbol.” Journal of Unitarian Universalist History 26.

1999. “Book Review: Four Spiritualities by Peter Richardson.” Congregations, February.

1999. “An Important Issue for UU’s: Becoming Staff.” UUMN Notes: The Unitarian Universalist Musicians Network Quarterly Newsletter , winter.

1998. “Conflicting Roles in Ministry.” Congregations , September.

1998. “Becoming Staff.” Newsletter of the Assn. of UU Administrators , fall.

1998. “Conflict Over Ministry.” Universalist Herald, January.

1998. “Becoming Staff.” First Days Record , September.

1998. “The Cat in the Transom.” Congregations , February.

1998. “Religious Institutions in the Information Age.” UU Voice , June.

1998-2000. First Day’s Record: A Journal of Liberal Religious Response , monthly contributor.

1997. “Book Review: Healthy Congregations by Peter Steinke.” Turnabout Topics , fall.

1996. “Defining Community Ministry,” paper written for the UUA Department of Ministry, August.

1995. Ministerial Settlement Handbook . Unitarian Universalist Association Dept. of Ministry.

1994. “Whom Do We Serve?” paper written for the UUA Department of Ministry.

1994. “Unitarian Universalist Statements of Purpose and Principle: A Brief History.” World Magazine .

1993. “The Flaming Chalice.” Unitarian Universalist Association Pamphlet Commission , 1994, 1998, 2001.

1991. YRUU: A Five-Year Review of UUA Youth Programs .

1991. “Criticism in Ministry.” in Resource Reader on Committee on Ministry , edited by Qiyamah A. Rahman.

1990. “The Flaming Chalice.” Quest .

1990. “Say Something Spiritual.” Quest .