|   Hello! July  was a vacation month for me. Well, a vacation two weeks. The upside was  that I worked like a demon and got caught up on everything before I  left. The downside was that it rained on our vacation, in July, for  several days, in a place that rarely sees much rainfall, and was 'cool'  for most of the vacation. Not so good for swimming. Worst weather on  vacation, ever. Ah, well. 
 
  DEGREES FROM THE SEMINARY - I've had  people ask me recently about the Master of Ministry from the Seminary.  Some people have asked if it's possible to specialize their training and  degree. I like the idea. Let me know what you think and if you'd like  to have others than what I'm listing below.
 
 Or should it be Christian Master of Ministry, Pagan Master of Ministry, etc.? Suggestions appreciated.Master of Christian Ministry/Dr. of Christian MinistryMaster of Pagan Ministry/Dr. of Pagan MinistryMaster of Spiritual Ministry/Dr. of Spiritual Ministry 
 
 
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  Please join us on Twitter and FB.  If you don't want to deal with  checking Twitter regularly, check the front page of the site  periodically and you'll see a Twitter feed there that updates with the  latest all the time. I've posted more videos. One is about FB and  Twitter.              Please check out and subscribe to our Youtube.com channel. http://youtu.be/Yo9StISJhKs - this is the link for the video in case it doesn't embed.
 
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  SALE FOR AUGUST   - I'm putting the Bachelors, Masters and Drs. of Divinity on sale again  this month. I had someone specifically ask, and I do my best to  deliver. :) http://www.ulcseminary.org/store/product_info.php?products_id=193 - Bachelor
 http://www.ulcseminary.org/store/product_info.php?products_id=192 - Master
 http://www.ulcseminary.org/store/product_info.php?products_id=68 - Doctor
 
 
   LINK REQUEST - The  one part of this job that is a bit of a pain the butt, but is  unfortunately, necessary, is the need to get backlinks. By that, I mean  links that go from other people's site to the Seminary. Because the  monastery took the site from its original owner, people often left the  old link, or added the link to the monastery's newer site, even though  they are no longer affiliated with the original ULC in Modesto, where  most of you all were first ordained. The monastery has since bought  about 250 domain names and have the money and manpower to put sites on a  lot of them, so they keep on top of the search engines. 
 
   With  the Seminary, it's all me when it comes to any web content, marketing,  etc. This means that instead of working on new programs and keeping up  with mailings, I have to spend my time trying to figure out how internet  search engine stuff works, along with everything else. So this is a  request. If you have a website or blog, would you please put Universal Life Church with  our link of http://www.ulcseminary.org, somewhere on your site? If you  write the word and highlight it, then click the button that shows a  chain (or a figure 8 on its side), that's how to create a link (for  those who don't know). It would be greatly appreciated. If I could get  caught up on links, I could spend more time putting together more  material for the site. I really appreciate it. 
 
   LATEST LESSONS  - I spent this month getting ready for vacation, then after two weeks,  spent a week catching up from vacation. So, objectively-speaking, I  guess the month was about vacations. lol. (that's 'laugh out loud' for  those who don't know and are afraid to ask.) 
 
   ARTICLE DIRECTORY  - We have an article directory  that I mentioned before. Unfortunately, we had a problem with it and  the articles that were previously published were inadvertently deleted.  So please, if you have a sermon you've written or other writings of a  spiritual or religious nature, please go to http://www.ulcseminary.com  and submit/re-submit them. Once you've been approved, you can submit  your articles and have them appear immediately. I apologize for any  inconvenience. Below is a link to a video I did about the article  directory. It's supposed to be embedded, but things don't always work as  they are supposed to. :) http://youtu.be/LuW1cxEjH2U
 
 
   SPAM - INCLUDE A SUBJECT LINE PLEASE - If  you want a response to your email, include a descriptive line. Anything  with no subject is automatically deleted. Anything with 'hello' or 'hi  amy' is also usually deleted. 98% of those are spam, so I apologize if  yours was one that wasn't. 
 
   Thank  you to all of you who respond to the kind words mailings. Even if I  don't respond, I do enjoy your replies. As answer to some questions I  receive, I do write every one of those and no, not everyone is getting  the same message at the same time. 
 
 Warmly,  Rev. Amy LongPresident of ULC Seminary
 
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