Boy in the Bands
Later. What? It’s Wednesday? Long week. Tomorrow is Ascension.
Long-time readers know that I love the feast of the Ascension, when Christ took leave from his followers and figuratively lifted up humanity. Leaving the office just now, I chatted with Office Mate, with whom the subject turned to how well parsed the Wikipedia entry for [...]
Preaching this Sunday, 5pm, at Church of the Holy City. Would love to see you there.
Oh! and there’s a concert there, beginning at 3:30.
Music of the Angels FREE Concert — May 20th, 2012, 3:30 P.M.
Mary-Victoria Voutsas, piano
Elena Maria Liberatore, clarinet
and collaborating Chamber Musicians
performing [...]
People of the Left, I’m home sick so I’ll make this brief. Show some self-respect.
The President said as little as possible about supporting same-sex marriage — and how much would he have said had the Vice President not spoken first? — and look how it’s gotten your juices going. Forget this not: everything is [...]
Livehoods makes the kind of map — only three cities so far — that suggest where people think the neighborhood boundaries are. Shouldn’t there be a Unitarian Universalist presence in each of them?
I imagine the continuing notices that the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Beacon Hill “headquarter” properties may be sold will cause a stir. I see it as a continuation of the heroic but interior mode the UUA leadership has trapped itself in; that is, it’ll resolve little and must surely frustrate the work-a-day programs that congregations and [...]
Today is the annual open day for non-EU embassies. (EU is next Saturday.) Long lines for a pamphlet and, sometimes, a taste of the local cuisine. I go to look at the buidlings and out of an internationalist sympathy.
Having done this a few times I’ve learned that the smaller the country the better chance [...]
So what do y’all think of this theme? (I would be changing the typeface if I keep it.)
Note to self (and others): after nine years of blogging, I think I’m going to keep blogging — I like it — but move to a shorter format, with occasional project-oriented longer pieces and perhaps some theological items. (And the weekly preaching texts and prayers to finish up the year.)
More tumblr than features. Perhaps [...]
Free Church Book of Common Prayer (1929)
Fourth Sunday after Easter
O Almighty God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men; grant unto thy people, that they may love the the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of [...]
I’ve not been blogging lately because I work for the Sunlight Foundation — these words are my own — and we just hosted our big in-person event, TransparencyCamp 2012. (When I make comments about Unitarian Universalist events, I do so honestly.)
The camp has been getting some major press; indeed, I [...]
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The Boy in the Bands is a record of the passing thoughts of Scott Wells: keeping an eye on the Unitarian Universalist Association, suggesting church administration hacks, and adding his bit for sustainable living in Washington, D.C. (I'm proud of my employer and colleagues, but the opinions here are mine.)Contact me
