I couldn’t bear another go-round with the UCC this Sunday, so returned to the Church of the Holy City, Swedenborgian, down Sixteenth Street from my apartment, and near my former church. Because of its proximity, I have been there before, and enjoyed it.
This is a very small congregation, and there were eleven of us today. […]
OK, here’s a place to show all that Lenten discipline. A jaded, somewhat gun-shy non-Christian asks: So, what’s a Christian? How do you answer, without using jargon or stained-glass sentiments.
Also, while we’re at it: what parts of Christian life do you know you couldn’t give a good answer for? We can help one another, here.
Put […]
In private discussions, off-blog, I have agree with others who insist we need well formed ministers, but I worry that the system we have sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t, and is always expensive. My large monthly check to SallieMae doesn’t even include the extraordinary amount of money that my seminary put into my education, via its […]
The Internet has so many resources for our hypothetical churches: too many perhaps. Here are my favorite four, and I’ll only add more if they are at least as good as these.
Online Revised Common Lectionary, with texts in New Revised Common Version Oremus: “daily prayer and prayer resources on the internet” Textweek, which is my favorite place […]
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I know I give the Church of the Larger Fellowship a hard time about being a “legal fiction” or an exception to every rule a congregational-polity association should have, or about useless for Christians. But that doesn’t mean I don’t think they belong, or are doing a good thing.
In fact, I think the CLF is […]
There’s an article in the Village Voice that’s getting links from bloggers all over. Thanks to My Irony, on whose blog I first saw it.
If you’re under 40, this is probably your life (not that we talk much about it) and if you’re over 40, you need to know what’s going on. This certainly sums […]
Those looking for new content should also look at my other blog, Boy in the Bands for the series of entries commonly entitled “Prayer Book Blues” — it is about adapting worship for very small congregations, and so might be seen as a mission for old churches. After all, God works there, too.
Now that you have some sense of the words and the surroundings, we can move on to the customs. High-church Baptists and priestless Anglo-Catholics (neither is a contradiction in terms, just minority realities, like “trinitarian Universalist”) would likely apply the same rite in different ways. Members in a blended setting, like an expat Anglophone church […]
Melanie, commenting the last post, is right: the old mainline is, on the whole, very dispirited. What I miss, and what I hope to find, is church that can have a bit of backbone without either being a Dutch Uncle or “Howard Dean at his worst” pontificating.
If Riverside Church, New York City, was closer, I’d […]
