I think ChaliceChick is just right about creeds. Where there is a void, we will attempt to fill it. Where there is an obsession, we will often been consumed by it. So this putatively creedless faith gets tied up around creed issues that liberalish confessional churches don’t bother with.
From my experience, the UU Christians have […]
For Easter Eve, I nearly went to a Missouri Synod Lutheran church and decided to put aside my scruples about attending churches that bar communion to me. The neighborhood LCMS church — one door down from an ELCA one, which is a a liberal end congregation of the moderate Lutheran denomination — […]
There has been a discussion on a Mailing List That Shall Not Be Named about clericals and vestments. It is one of those confidential lists that I like to write on, but really want to recycle to material for the blog — so I’ll pull my own words and anonymize the rest. (More about that […]
I just read on the wires that Terri Schiavo was given communion, and I’m glad to hear it.
This is from an Associated Press account, by Mike Schneider:
Schiavo’s husband, who a day earlier denied a request from his wife’s parents that she be given communion, granted permission Sunday to offer the sacrament.
The Rev. Thaddeus Malanowski said […]
This is, of course, the Easter Homily of St. John Chrysostom. He is risen!
If any man be devout and loveth God, let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast! If any man be a wise servant, let him rejoicing enter into the joy of his Lord.
The Ecclesiantics (formerly Mystery Worshipper) board at Ship of Fools has a current thread about a Good Friday service at a Unitarian church, perhaps in Surrey.
Which comes first? - communion practices
2008 May 5. Link dead.
Regular readers know I have an interest in using technology to simplify or enhance the work of churches. I was reading Heal Your Church Website when I came to this passage by MeanDean (the author)
Together, the need to outsource office work and to support off-site lay-workers has given rise to the need for […]
I have a new toy: an online book at Making of America:
Malcom, Howard. Theological index : references to the principal works in every department of religious literature embracing nearly seventy thousand citations, alphabetically arranged under two thousand heads. ( 1868)
It is what it says it is, but the nice thing is that it gives citations […]
About 150 years or so ago, the Wellses were in Lafayette,Tippecanoe County, Indiana. How nice to learn that there was a Universalist church there. And better yet, the missionary was the famous Erasmus Manford, author of Twenty-five Years in the West.
Churches in Lafayette, Indiana
A reader — I love y’all; keep those cards and letters coming — asked
Question: what prayer books, if any, do you recommend for daily use?
The only one I know of is the Anglican/Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Are there others?
Universalists had a liturgical movement, sparked originally (I believe) by convert from the Episcopalians Menzies […]
