Before I braved the crowds yesterday, I went to services at the Church of the Holy City, Swedenborgian. The Rev. Andrew Stinson was preaching. The appointed reading was John 21:1-19, where the resurrected Christ meets some of his disciples, Peter included, and commands him to “feed my sheep.” The disciples were fishing but catching nothing. [...]
A cool, rainy day in Washington, and life is back to normal. Just a minute to make a link to the offical Unitarian Universalist Association reportage of yesterday’s shin-dig. UUs Gather in Washington to Support the March for Women’s Lives Share this article Hide Sites $$(‘div.d283′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
I was wrong about the numbers. This event we had in Washington was far bigger than this wide-eyed boy met in 1993 for the March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Something Something and Liberation. I’d believe the claims of a million people. Now, to business. I’m a bit of a chant snob. (I realized [...]
On the whole, I like the police. Which is good, because today D.C.’s Finest were out in super-sized force downtown. Not in drips or drabs, either, but whole chains of them by car and on bike (see the photo I took from the bus on the way to the wedding I did today). I’m sure [...]
Well, that was a lot easier than I thought it would be. All the entries are back, but (1) not in the right category and (2) without comments. I’ll come back and fix those after I’ve gotten New Church Mission to this point. Plus, I took the time to clean up a number of typos, [...]
Well, the format rebuild is about 75% done, and all the postings for this blog are done to February 29, so there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. No search feature yet; I’ll see if I can have that up before the end of the weekend. Of course, I have other things to [...]
I was blogging off-line while my host was having crashes. I’ve been waiting to post this for four days. Note, this church does not (yet) exist, and it isn’t the first one I’d plan because some of the structures in this mock-up assume a functioning regional partnership (the “parish”). Feel free to add your wishes [...]
Well, in the last few hours, I got both blogs about 80% back in terms of format, and I found a Boy in the Bandsbackup from February 15. Since this blog is a spin-off of Boy in the Bands, they have a large number of early posts in common, so I dropped the backup into [...]
I am not happy. My service provider doesn’t back up the kind of database I used to make this and the New Church Mission blog, and they crashed a few days ago. (No warning about the inadequate database.) I can’t find my two-month-old backup, either. So while all the posts are preserved, they exist like [...]
My lectionary group met this morning, and there’s always a bit of check-in. My contribution was that I’m looking for secular work to support my eating and indoor-sleeping habit. The others agreed that pastoral ministry teaches you a lot of skills that are useful in the secular workplace. I’ve (obviously) found a few. A group [...]
