Brother Roger, 1915-2005
Tuesday, August 16th, 2005May he have the peace which the world can neither give nor take away.
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Photo: João Pedro Gonçalves
Archive for August, 2005
Cable access #1
Tuesday, August 16th, 2005DC has some wonderfully freaky religious cable access broadcasting, so nothing new there. But I’m just slack-jawed. I read “ancient astronaut”/UFOs in the Bible stuff when I was a kid, so I should be used to this, but I’m not. But I love this stuff.
The scene, a sound stage with talk-show chair and […]
“Unitarians Face a New Age” online
Tuesday, August 16th, 2005I looked again for the new Unitarian Universalist Association Commission on Appraisal report for download and it isn’t there yet.
But I noticed something else, quite useful and essential for seminarians. Formerly hard to get, now you can keep it on a hard drive: the landmark American Unitarian Association report Unitarians Face a New Age.
Note, it […]
Not thinking of an elephant
Monday, August 15th, 2005I’ve just started — and about halfway through; it isn’t long — George Lakoff’s Don’t Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate. Get two, read one twice and give the other to a friend.
Listening to some people, Lakoff’s presentation at General Assembly would have made attending worthwhile, but $10 […]
Next for the COA?
Monday, August 15th, 2005The UUA Comission on Appraisal asks for our input on its next subject.
I’m now wondering out loud, “What has happened to the scores or hundreds of ministers that come into fellowship and then vanish?” I was on the phone the other night with a regular reader and we easily reeled off the names of about […]
Another Universalist Publishing House location
Sunday, August 14th, 2005I’m categorizing and boxing my Universalist ephemera — remember the Hollinger boxes? — and found a cache of the Sunday School Helper “devoted to the interests of Universalist Sunday School Teaching.”
Some time in 1877 or 1878, the Universalist Publishing House moved in Boston from 37 Cornhill (a district with a long history of Universalist publishing) […]
Green burials
Saturday, August 13th, 2005Philocrites blogs about ecological burials, and I was going to write about this too because of how they were featured in the third-to-last installment of Six Feet Under last week. Poor Nate. But he is buried in a nice grove. In real life, a natural piece of field stone, discretely engraved, might mark the grave. […]
Having read “Nickle and Dimed”
Saturday, August 13th, 2005Am I the last person to have read Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed, the 2001 work of “investigative social commentary” describing the impossible situation of the working poor? My Day Job supervisor loaned it to me; the copy is making its way through the office.
http://www.nickelanddimed.net/
Like the film Super Size Me it isn’t digging up […]
Five years
Saturday, August 13th, 2005Today, I’m five years a Washingtonian.
There’s a joke that you become a native a six years and a day — one day more than a Senator’s term; more a joke about national politics than living in the District — leaving me a year and a day. And that sounds like a felony conviction!
Geek love (and grey boxes)
Wednesday, August 10th, 2005Anyone who has a history researching background — and is a certified geek — can appreciate my joy! My order of Hollinger boxes have arrived! Those lovely dove-grey archival boxes with the metal fittings on the corners. (I realized my collection of Universalist ephemera needed extra care.)
Good for church archives, of course. Quilters use them, […]
