Retention, Community and the wide circle of the net.
There are five or six major questions that relate to every tradition, and I have long felt that UEW answers the vast majority of them well. We know, better than most, who we are and where we come from and (I think) where we are headed. (In my mind, we are headed towards a larger and more robust community, with a multiplicity of leadership voices and elders, as well as people with different levels of participatation.)
One question another trad has asked itself is "how do we keep the people who are interested in our tradition in our tradition?" I would modify this, for UEW is not (and should never be!) the tradition for everyone. "How do we keep the people who are beneficial to and benefit from our tradition, without attracting people who are a detriment to our tradition and would benefit better from a different trad?"
Who are these people? What do they bring to the table? How do we keep them involved?"
Other question I encountered recently was centered around the idea of community? What makes you feel a part of the uew community? What doesn't work? What does? What do we need to put more work into?
How do we define this "community," anyways? Is a person who has read All One Wicca but never encountered another UEWwie a part of the community? And what of the many groups out there? How do we involve them in our community? Do we? Just some thoughts....