Archive for August, 2003

Baptism I: Me or Us?

Wednesday, August 6th, 2003

As I mentioned in the old “boy in the bands” blog, there’s been a little stir on UUMA-CHAT, but since that’s a confidential list for Unitarian Universalist ministers, I can’t go into detail. But I can share what I posted, with the understanding that any sense of urgency will be misplaced since you are reading […]

Remembrance of sermons past

Tuesday, August 5th, 2003

Later this month, a lay preacher will give one of my predecessor’s old sermons. Seth Rogers Brooks (d. 1987) was minister of the Universalist National Memorial Church from 1939 to 1979, and leaves quite a shadow. He was one of the leading voices against the 1961 Universalist and Unitarian consolidation, and this hasn’t helped his […]

2 Samuel 13:1-22

Tuesday, August 5th, 2003

I was looking up the daily readings appointed in the Oremus Lectionary for today, and the first is 2 Samuel 13:1-22. I haven’t had a daily reading discipline for some time, and it never seems to last long. Perhaps this time . . . .

Is it a bad omen that this is the passage commonly […]

Heartbreak at a lost church

Tuesday, August 5th, 2003

I cannot approve of what seems to be a last-minute derailment tactic by conservative Episcopalians in the nomination of Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire.

And I also cannot pretend that the conservatives are not faithful people, and, if this vote passes, they will personally lose something.

Consider this excerpt from a presentation by […]

Something stinks in Minneapolis

Monday, August 4th, 2003

Philocrites sums up my sense of what’s happening with Bishop-elect Robinson.

A change of venue

Monday, August 4th, 2003

Well, it took long enough but I was able to

(1) learn Movable Type, and

(2) get it loaded onto one of the hosts I have, but clearly not the one that supports uuchristian.org. (Lesson to self: keep all your websites hosted through one, convenient service.)

So welcome to all of those who have read “boy […]