One of my favorite repeat episodes of The Simpsons was on tonight: the one telling the story of the first Halloween. The one where Marge turns out to be a witch, and where she and her sisters inaugurate trick-or-treating. (Remember? Salem Flanderses: “Wouldn’t you rather have gingerbread children?” “They’re boneless.”)
It is also the one where [...]
Colleague Rosemary Bray McNatt, the minister of the Fourth Universalist Society, New York, has a blog called Guard the Vote. Seeing as its url is universalist.typepad.com, I hope she keeps and morphs it into something after the election.
But see what she has until then:
Guard the Vote
or the church’s vastly improved website.
The new buzz at Coffee Hour (the UU group blog) is the new book by Michael Durall entitled The Almost Church: Redefining Unitarian Universalism for a New Era. Oh, dear.
I want to want to read it. But I’ve been around the UU block a few times, and the one constant is that we’uns get all [...]
Like Terrance and Katharine, as a native Georgian, I please with sensible voters of my home state to vote No on Amendment One. It is unnecessary and extreme.
Even if you believe gay marriage is a bad idea, a Yes vote will ripple to attack gay couples’ ability to care for themselves, will pull rights of [...]
There were two witnesses to Virginia Universalist before and at the 1790 Philadelphia Universalist Convention; this remarkable since Virginia was a very thin spot in the history of Universalism.
What I’ve been able to find of these little-known pioneers comes from an account in the first installment of Richard Eddy’s Universalist Conventions and Creeds (Universalist [...]
I am a strong believer in not reinventing the wheel, and a stronger believer in using resources that others provide free of charge if its “wheel” is as good as one sold. At root, Christians make up one spiritual body and I’m not embarassed to say someone else is on a better track tham me.
To [...]
I am quite happy to see unaffiliated (to the UUA) Universalists whenever I find them, even in a town with one of the last Trinitarian Universalist churches anywhere. Even if their web ads tout a herpes treatment.
A link: http://www.providencebiblestudents.com/index.html
They “profess Winchester” by the way.
My Day Job includes buying some children’s books. Thus, I was online, at the Scholastic website — they’re the nice folks who publish the Harry Potter series among zillions of other titles — and came across the company credo, which was nicely bullet-pointed:
We believe in:
The worth and dignity of each individual
Respect for the diverse groups [...]
This is mainly for the Demosthenians, or those who care about my reading list.
As I mentioned earlier, I”m reading E. Merton Coulter’s College Life in the Old South. The chapter on the literary societies is required for induction into membership of the Demosthenian Literary Society . . . so I have read this before (several [...]
Following up on the open source software in the church office idea –
Just found this ministry. Just the thing. How did I miss it?
What is the Freely Project?
The Freely Project was setup for the promotion of Open Source Software (OSS) and Linux within churches. Members of the project have a range of technical abilities and [...]
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