Just so it wouldn’t get lost, here’s the PDF file from the 1917 Hymns of the Church of the hymn used at the 1903 Winchester Profession observances here in Washington, mentioned below. It will fit on an 5.5 by 8.5 inch leaf, for the usual order of worship. Download here: thouwhosewide.pdf (48 K) Share this [...]
I can tell the hurricane is coming. I tried to turn off the window fan in the kitchen; it wasn’t on, but the wind was blowing cold air in from outside. My sinuses are throbbing; the barometer is obviously dropping. Call this entry my hurricane day journal until if-and-when the power goes out. I am [...]
In the last entry, Derek Parker [blog is extinct, 14 April 2005] mentions an ordination hymn in the comments. This is a good place to do a little hymnological archaeology. For my own ordination, at Canon, Georgia, I looked up the meeting of the second Georgia Universalist Convention in 1839 the proceedings were published in [...]
If you come to Universalist National Memorial Church this Sunday, you’ll see the following in the order of service (or something like it) The Universalist General Convention and First Universalist Church, Washington (Church of Our Father), this church’s predecessor, held Winchester Profession Centennial observances in October 1903. The first and third hymns this morning were [...]
Time flies, blog entries grow stale, and unless new entries are made, Movable Type will empty the blog in what seems to be a very short time. I’ve noticed that most [Unitarian | Universalist] blogs are a bit spare this week. So, back to Matthew Gatheringwater’s blog. [Defunct; quite a loss.] He refers to English [...]
Matthew Gatheringwater doesn’t have TrackBack, so this will have to do to respond to his rather harrowing tale, entitled, “My bus fare and Jesus.” That, and it has been four days since I’ve made an entry, and don’t want to seem to have gone AWOL. In short, our writer, in south Chicago at night (like [...]
The ever-dear Suburban Blight made me think, in putting me in her Cul-de-Sac, that though this is a special purpose blog, it needn’t be so serious and dull. (But bless her heart, while I sometimes feel like a YR here in Babylon-on-the-Potomac, she can still make me look like a lefty and realize I like [...]
Facilitating Paradox mentions his current inspiration in Justo Gonzalez’s The Story of Christianity (vol. 1). (Hear that Jim?) I know “the Gonzalez” (as we always called it) is a classic textbook, and that it serves a particular function, but for my money and shelf space, I’m more partial to Linwood Urban’s A Short History of [...]
Everyone welcome the two new bloggers new in that they have their own private blogs at UUChristian.net Watch and Pray, a.k.a. Derek Parker, and Humble Parson, a.k.a. Steve Cook. 1/1/2005 Neither are active any more. Share this article Hide Sites $$(‘div.d43′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
Everyone take a gander at what Tom Schade wrote: Prophet Motive: Scott Alexander on the Present Situation Share this article Hide Sites $$(‘div.d42′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
