Utah-born and bred Philocrites recalls how the Mormon anthem “Come, Come Ye Saints” moved him to tears when sung at King’s Chapel, Boston.
The closest experience I have had to this was at the Opening Ceremony at Nashville 2000 GA. Mind you, I think Opening Ceremony has been a disorganized rah-rah shambles and needs to be [...]
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I lift mine eyes to “Rocky Top Tennessee”
Entirely proper
Here’s what I promised, based on what we’ll have in worship this Sunday, as suitable for a commemoration
of George deBenneville.
first reading: Malachi 2:5-7 (see)
second reading: Ecclesiasticus/Sirach/Ben Sira 39:1-10 (see)
responsive reading: Wisdom of Solomon: 10:16-21 (here, NRSV, gently adapted.)
Wisdom entered the soul of a servant of the Lord,
and withstood dread kings with wonders and signs.
She gave [...]
DeBenneville’s Life and Trance
The Life and Trance of George deBenneville can be now found at www.universalistchurch.net/faith/lifeandtrance.html, which is another of my web persuits. Enjoy it with your July 26 G. deB. observances. I’ll work up a suitable list of “propers” (worship elements appropriate and particular to an occasion) to be posted here.
And I cannot help but notice in [...]
DeBenneville’s Life and Trance
The Life and Trance of George deBenneville can be now found at www.universalistchurch.net/faith/lifeandtrance.html, which is another of my web persuits. Enjoy it with your July 26 G. deB. observances.
I’ll work up a suitable list of “propers” (worship elements appropriate and particular to an occasion) to be posted here.
And I cannot help but notice in reading [...]
Eternal Ruler of the Ceaseless Round
There’s a hymn — sadly missing in the 1993 Singing the Living Tradition but present in the 1937 Hymns of the Spirit we use at Universalist National Memorial Church, Washington; you can also read the full text at CyberHymnal, even though I prefer it matched to the tune Stockport (Yorkshire)‘ — that informs my [...]
UU customs and growth
Do UU customs undercut new church growth? That’s a big question, so I hope my readers will excuse me thinking out loud. (I reserve the right to retract any statement later.) First, I’m not talking about a resistance to evangelism, real or imagined, but systems that discourage new churches from growing to their full potential. [...]
