There’s been a lot of hand-wringing (myself included) over the question of church planting in the Unitarian Universalist Association, but I think we set ourselves and each other up for failure. In particular, I’m thinking about minister-organized churches but there are other applications for our failing system. First, why aren’t there more new minister-organized churches? [...]
Prophet, Priest, and King is the usual description of Christ’s tripartite office. Prophet and king have come up in blogging lately — including Clyde Grubbs’s timely entry on not choosing prophets — but I’ve not added my piece both because of wrist conservation, and because I’m meditating on the “missing” priest part. No public ideas, [...]
I got an interesting email today: a small publisher emailed me wanting me to promote a Unitarian Universalist author of theirs. I declined, as I’ve never been keen on this writer’s works and his ego is obviously strong enough to do without my promotion. That said, I have a similar job at Day Job and [...]
Well, I saw the series finale of Six Feet Under and if you have too, I invite you to leave comments and observations. I think it’ll be shown a third time, but if you’d rather just get a spolier synopsis, read after the jump. It was a good series, and open a lot of doors [...]
If PeaceBang can talk about attending a musical, so can I. Hubby and I went to Urinetown at Signature Theater last night. How do I describe it? a Brechtian comedy? The Crucible for a self-aware urban hipster generation? Perhaps a grim morality melodrama with fabo singing? That’ll do. The Big Bad is a corporation that [...]
Shawn Anthony — bless his heart — is having agita over the cost of seminary textbooks (“The Campus Bookstore Lament”) but a rather warm feeling towards his bound paper children. My advice: get over that feeling right now. Last night I was culling my groaning bookshelves, and it seems to be a task I do [...]
I’m trying to make a carp-al tunnel joke, but failing. At the moment, both wrists are in braces. I’ll be keeping the blogging short and light for a few days. Share this article Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1056′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
At the risk of being the man in the Geneva gown calling the kettle black, I love this story at Odyssey about how a bootleg copy of Revenge of the Sith got translated in Chinese and incorrectly subtitled back into English. ChaliceChick, this one is for you. Darth Vader a Presbyterian? Share this article Hide [...]
Finished George Lakoff’s Don’t Think of an Elephant and have already passed it off (I’ll buy more copies for friends) and have ordered his Moral Politics. His big point is that conservatives and progresives have, respectively, dominant Strong Father and Nurturant Parent worldviews, which apply to the nation which fills the role of family. I’m [...]
Tonight, I’m going to a candlelight vigil in support of Cindy Sheehan at Lafayette Park, in front of the White House. Similar events are being held across the country, but I only found out today about it at Day Job. Is anyone else vigilling? The schedule, if you read this in time. Share this article [...]
