Dispatches from the Religious Left: The Future of Faith and Politics in America, edited by Frederick Clarkson, will be available October 1st (or you can pre-order now)!

Over at Welcoming Websites, a subdivision of Lightbulb First Consulting, we're pleased to be starting work with a new client, the Universalist Unitarian Church of Riverside.

Earlier this week, Shai and I checked out the Boston Drupal Meetup, at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. Drupal enthusiasts gathered to give short talks about how they are working on and using Drupal.

We heard presentations from Andy Chase, who is working on the re-release of the User Autorole module, and from Moshe Weitzman, who is creating the new Devel_Themes module.

The Devel_Theme module will be available for Drupal 6, and will make it easier for developers to identify the functions, variables and template files impacting the look of a given page. In addition, the module will include a "duration" measurement that tells how much processing time was taken up by each component.

Local developers also gave talks, explaining how they use Drupal to create sites for educational clients, religious organizations, and a well-known entertainment celebrity.

We had a great time. It was exciting to see what other people are doing with Drupal in our area, and to learn about some of the new features available in the next release of Drupal. We certainly enjoy being part of this vibrant and creative community!

Making Trouble is a film created by the Jewish Women's Archive that spotlights six Jewish women comedians: Molly Pican, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner, and Wendy Wasserstein. Welcoming Websites, a division of Lightbulb First Consulting, recently worked with the Jewish Women's Archive to provide a new administrative back-end for the Making Trouble site, helping JWA staff manage content on the site more easily.

This month, Lightbulb First opened Welcoming Websites, a new division that provides website development services to religious organizations.