Hymn reviews
Thursday, July 14th, 2005Jess’s reviews of the new hymnal supplement are good reading.
I’ll write more when I get a handle on this new keyboard.
Archive for July, 2005
The Dvorak keyboard
Wednesday, July 13th, 2005I’ve been teased for my interest in Esperanto, tofu, Universalism, Linux, and all manner of reformist “improvements” that (I know) causes some people to roll their eyes. Now I have a new one that might preserve my wrists: the Dvorak keyboard, and with it the possibility of becoming a touch-typist.
This little article took ages to […]
A little tonic
Wednesday, July 13th, 2005At Day Job, there’s a lot of talk about how apathetic the American people have gotten. Here’s my bit for being a part of the solution rather than being a part of the problem.
In long hand with blue fountain-pen ink on a small piece of writing paper:
July 13, 2005
The Hon. George W. Bush White House Washington, […]
Da bomb
Wednesday, July 13th, 2005This is my one-time-only blog entry from work.
When I got to my bus stop this morning, it was cordoned off with yellow tape. There were a bunch of police cruisers there and sealing off the street for more than a block in each direction.
Bomb squad. “Suspicious package.”
It took me forever to get a bus — […]
The funny places one finds resonance
Tuesday, July 12th, 2005I know I can be a scowling noodge at time, and some people pointedly question why I am a Unitarian Universalist. (Usually after I’ve said something distinctly Christian or critical of the current UUA administration, neither of which I consider valid reasons for having “the door” suggested.)
That said, I had one of those moments of […]
Policy Governance here, please
Tuesday, July 12th, 2005In the last posting, I asked for comments about the mechanics of polity and seemed to tap a nerve about Polity Governance, also known as the Carter Model.
I know little about it, and what I’ve read doesn’t do much for me. Plus it only seems to be thought fruitful for the largest churches in the […]
Church cooperative?
Tuesday, July 12th, 2005Let’s think for a moment of how a church is organized; not the theological justification for its being, but the social models for its running. Business models are common; so are models from civil government. So too hints from organized labor and mass social movements. Sometimes these borrowings are conscious and obvious and others are […]
Pray to ease pain
Monday, July 11th, 2005I know some of y’all out there are constant and dependable intercessors.
Emerging-church blog readers have surely seen the most poignant posting to date from the well-known blogger and minister Jordan Cooper about his neuropathy. Remember him and his wife in prayer.
My grandmother lives with chronic, debilitating pain so prayers for Mary would be […]
DC Circulator is good
Monday, July 11th, 2005A little local note.
The DC Circulator began operations today, and I think we have a winner here. It is essentially a simplified (no route numbers; two routes, intersecting at the Convention Center; flat $1 fare) and upscale (clean, airy, low-floor buses) bus route that should help tourists, intown workers, and folks like Hubby and me […]
Quick intro to emerging church
Sunday, July 10th, 2005In my last pastorate, I called PBS’s Religion & Ethics Newsweekly the “farm report” since it was some news I needed just before leaving to go to church Sunday mornings.
For a change, I was looking forward to a particular story that was getting a lot of buzz on emerging-church blogs about the emerging church […]
