Bless his heart: the UU Enforcer has put a number of photos on his blog of the graves of famous Unitarians and Universalists, including Hosea Ballou and John Murray. The latter is, of course, the much-noted “father of American Universalism.” Much-noted, but little understood. Indeed, the honor is really haigiographic since the idea of […]
Now that I’ve gotten a new feed reader, I can scan through fresh RSS feeds even faster, and pick up some blogs that I had to drop from being overwhelmed. One of this second class is the ChangeThis newsletter, which points to new manifesto titles at ChangeThis.com. A manifesto is a prima facie argument and […]
Steven R. — is your surname public? — comments here regularly, and so it was natural I should follow the link he left with his last comment. That and he’s one of the few people I know with whom I can share stories about Newberry and its Universalists. (Hubby, a Sandlapper, indulges me.)
Bless […]
I’ve asked my good friend, the Rev. Derek Parker to comment on the state of the much vaunted intended-to-be-large new-start church in Texas. I can’t image he and I would have been talking much about it if it had been locally funded, or if the UUA had a more comprehensive new church start program. But […]
Thanks to ChaliceChick and her Linguist Friend for coming to see me preach at the Church of the Holy City. The afterwards visit and lunch were fun, too.
See bloggers, people to meet in real life, and even though I don’t get to blog events, I do exist.
I liked reading the Rev. Dan Harper’s blog — Yet Another Unitarian Universalist Blog — but I hated looking at it. Was an AOL blog ya’ know. I’m glad he’s moved to WordPress and his own domain. Good going! Now I can enjoy it all.
You can now read it here.
I thought typing out another obituary or two, though not of young ministers, might be a handy way of avoiding my sermon. This is from the 1904 UGC Trustees annual report.
Rev. James H. Park, of Gratis, Georgia, [a locale west of Athens — SW/BitB] died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Julia Thurman, at […]
Bill Baar posts some photos of the the condemned former Universalist church in Elgin, Illinois.
I used to be sad when I heard news like this — with Queen’s Another One Bites the Dust bumping along as a mental soundtrack — but without a congregation (of any denomination, to my mind) then a churchly building is […]
My local readers might want to know I’ll be preaching at the Church of the Holy City (Swedenborgian), at the corner of Corcoran and 16th Streets, NW, Washington this Sunday at 11:00 a.m.
From the 1911 Universalist General Convention Board of Trustees annual report.
Richard A. Lenz . . .,
of the class of 1909, Canton Theological School, died in Nunda, N.Y., where he had been pastor less than a year, March 20, 1911. A short time with the church in Clarendon comprised the whole of this young man’s ministry. […]
