Archive for April, 2005

RSS from the United Church of Canada

Friday, April 22nd, 2005

Deat at Heal Your Church Website highlights the United Church of Canada website: its overall quality, and who it describes its news syndication feeds. Note, RSS is syndication; XML is the format. Talk about RSS if you mean feeds.

If you haven’t guessed, I like RSS feeds and wait impatiently for UUA.org to add […]

Winchester’s first sermon

Friday, April 22nd, 2005

According to the Universalist Register and Almanac (1840), Elhanan “Winchester preached his first Universalist sermon, 1781.”

Kansans: help DC gay families

Thursday, April 21st, 2005

DC gay couples and others have been watching the deferred but inescapable action of DC government around the recognition of same-sex couples married in Massachusetts. Will these marriages be recognized in the District of Columbia, a place, according to the Washington Post has more gay residents and couples than any place outside of San Francisco? […]

Relly’s walk

Thursday, April 21st, 2005

David Warnock is as glad for Google Maps (in beta) being released for the UK as I was for their release in the US. (Thanks for the tip.)

Now I can fulfill my whistful wish and show you the relative distances between (the site of) Whitefield’s now lost London (Moorfields) Tabernacle where early Universalist James Relly […]

The earliest entries

Thursday, April 21st, 2005

I’m going back and adding the earliest entries of this blog — from May 22 to August 3, 2003 — that I self-coded. Not all of them because they were ephemeral bits of fluff, but the ones that have real content. (Including my own rules about when I wore a clerical collar, for instance.)

Anything I […]

“Live flesh” links

Wednesday, April 20th, 2005

No, be nice, not that kind of “live flesh” — but a rough rendering of the Greek-Latin URL zoecarnate.com for Sites Unseen, a remarkable links resource by two “former roomates and alumni from Berry College [who] are part of a house church community in the metro-Atlanta, Georgia, USA-area.”

OK: perhaps “life [in the] body” is more […]

Creed or uncreed

Wednesday, April 20th, 2005

Paul Wilczynski asks one of those naked questions that deserves some answers. Boasting about not having a de jure creed isn’t so impressive when there is a de facto one, or nearly so.

I think it is about time we started getting down to some refined, careful language around belief. As a religious fellowship, we’re way […]

The pilgrim and the pope

Wednesday, April 20th, 2005

Jim, a.k.a. Pereginato, has written more about Benedict XVI and has said what I would want to say if I were feeling clement.

Habemus Papam: We Have a Pope

Matthew Gatheringwater on Patton

Wednesday, April 20th, 2005

The dialogue with seminarian Matthew Gatheringwater has been stimulating, and the following responds to his most recent comments, where he shares about his first time out in a robe.

Before I say any more about clerical garb, I’d like to hear more about the episode of which you wrote. Was it a funeral?

As for Ken Patton […]

Saviour of All Fellowship

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

One of the sources of Universalistiana I most enjoy and found most endearing arrived in the mail: the newsletter of Saviour of All Fellowship. It is a one-page newsletter (in the sense of a newsy, photocopied letter) that I get in sets of three. It is like looking into an extended family bound, not by […]


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