Archive for May, 2004

“Super Size Me” to See

Monday, May 31st, 2004

My everloving partner and I saw Super Size Me, to bew documentary about the journalist who examined American obesity by eating an all-McDonald’s diet for a month.

See it if you can, especially if you’re trying to summon courage for dieting but not if you’re prone to nausea. I’d recommend that kids under 16 not […]

Prayer after Sermon (3)

Sunday, May 30th, 2004

Prayer after Sermon (3) God of Truth, let Thy blessing for ever rest upon us, in the assurance of Thy perpetual presence. Thou goes by, and we see Thee not: Thou passest on also, and we perceive Thee not: yet art Thou very nigh to every one of us. The darknes hideth not from Thee, but […]

Back from Safari

Saturday, May 29th, 2004

Philocrites brought to my attention that this blog was hanging when he used the Mac Safari browser. Thanks to him, and my long-suffering Mac-using partner, I just gave up on the three graphic images currently in use and reduced the number of days of readable entries to a more customary seven.

It seems to load well […]

Prayer after Sermon (2)

Saturday, May 29th, 2004

We beseech Thee, O Lord, to follow with thy richest blessing the religious meditations of this hour. May Thy holy word sink deep into our minds, that our souls may take hold of it as the hope over everlasting life. May we feel its transforming power, and be doers of its heavnly lessons, lest the […]

Prayer after Sermon (1)

Friday, May 28th, 2004

Those morning prayers last week called on a prayer from pages 60 to 52 in the Gospel Liturgy. Time to add those.

O Lord our Salvation, whose goodness and mercy have continually followed us: Grant us Thy helpful grace, that our souls may continually follow Thee. Enable us to make religion the daily experience of our […]

Christian formation

Friday, May 28th, 2004

Better than “religious education” the idea of “Christian formation” gets to what I hope to accomplish personally and in any new church. I think that, as a practice, it has a better idea of the Church as a spiritual unity (and not just a corelative to a school) and puts life-long development back into a […]

A word from Quillen Shinn

Thursday, May 27th, 2004

I ran across this tonight.

I see not why one ever things of being a Universalist minister, unless they are willing to go wherever called or enter every field where souls are hungry for our message. I may not have enough of this spirit, but this this I know, I hardly ever pass a schoolhouse […]

Collect for the Evening (Gloria Patri Revised)

Thursday, May 27th, 2004

O Blessed God, who neither slumberest nor sleepest, take us into thy gracious keeping for this night; and make us mindful of that night when the noise of this busy world shall be heard by us no more. O Lord in whom we trust, help us by thy grace so to live that we may […]

UUCF at GA

Wednesday, May 26th, 2004

This is the roster of Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship events at General Assembly, mirrored here so that more people will see it. Wish I were going, gang, but I’ll see y’all next year.

Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship Schedule of Events for General Assembly 2004 June 24-28, 2004 in Long Beach, CA

Jesus in the 21st Century: Lecture by Rev. […]

Where John Murray was baptized

Wednesday, May 26th, 2004

The church where John Murray was baptized, St. Lawrence, Alton, Hampshire has a website, but no reference to him, or the plaque presented by the Universalist General Convention in 1925.

Well, the parish has a Norman foundation, so perhaps a wayward son, known mainly in America by a small sect, doesn’t rate.


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