Most recently, Matthew Gatheringwater said:
Wouldn’t your argument work better, however, if it related to a pre-existing uniform vesture among Unitarian Universalist ministers? By adopting a style of vesture that is uncommon if not singular among Unitarian Universalist ministers, aren’t you in fact emphasizing your distinctness, rather than your uniformity?
Uh, what I wear for the most […]
Add the United Methodist Church to denominations that have RSS feeds, intended mainly for United Methodist local church websites. (But it works in my browser-based reader, too.)
When I re-discover the blogger who shared the tip I’ll make a thanks-link.
United Methodist Church feeds
Well, it has happened, and I am neither surprised nor happy.
Joseph “God’s rotweiler” Ratzinger is now Benedict XVI, and I wonder how emboldened America’s theocrats — Catholic or not — will be at his elevation.
The only up side I can see (personally) is that I’m not as torn as those Catholics who feel even more […]
When I was a teenager at the (then called) Unitarian Church of Augusta (Georgia), I would sometimes skulk off to the church office during coffee hour to read the UUA Directory. I was just a sponge for information. (This is how I first learned that there were Christians in the UUA, though I wasn’t […]
There are two websites that have been brought to my attention, from a member of the Free Christian Yahoo! group. He also is responsible for the James Martineau website. (He doesn’t identify himself by name on the pages, so I won’t either.)
Not quite my theology, particularly the former, but probably quite close to a […]
Matthew Gatheringwater:
If your vestments were atavistic 145 years ago, what does that make them now?
Timeless and uniform. I think Theodore Parker got enough things wrong for me not to worry about what he thought. Of course, the same can be said about the following. We take our parts in turn.
In the low churches, with their […]
From the substance of Matthew Gatheringwater’s comment:
You are trying to emphasize the sacramental nature of Unitarian Universalism? Since when did we start having sacraments again?
I’m not sure where the sacrament comment came from since I’ve already commented that the stole is the garment associated with the sacraments, not the bands, which is more of a […]
Matthew Gatheringwater wrote this in the comments of High/Low:
Frankly, I don’t see what the high church/low church distinction has to do with the bands. You are trying to emphasize the sacramental nature of Unitarian Universalism? Since when did we start having sacraments again? Oh, I get it: Your religion is Universalism circa 1800. Now, if […]
In case you’re wondering if I’m blogging from my Day Job, I’m not. Just using the future posting feature of WordPress to space out my thoughts a bit. (I’ve been writing more than usual lately.)
But it has other uses, I think.
A group blog with WordPress, where the members assigned roles and held each other accountable, […]
Before I go back and address Matthew Gatheringwater’s now lost (and partially restored) comment about clerical garb — its propriety, how people understand it, what Theodore Parker would have thought — I need to ramp up by considering “high church” and “low church”
If I may be excused for quoting myself, let me pull forward what […]
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