Archive for December, 2005

Marti Keller jumps in

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

Actually, the Rev. Marti Keller has had a blog and an affiliated website www.martikeller.com for some time, but thanks to Philocrites for pointing it out.

As I would expect of her, it is quite well written and I look forward to reading the back posts, online sermons, and all the nooks and crannies. She was a […]

PeaceBanging the movies

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

Hubby and I have seen two films in two days. First we saw The Producers in Chinatown after a lovely Christmas dinner of Singapore Sling, hot and sour soup, and cuttlefish in XO sauce. Last night we saw Brokeback Mountain last night in Bethesda. Talk about “no room at the inn” — it is only […]

PeaceBanging ministerial debt

Monday, December 26th, 2005

PeaceBang wrote an indignant and largely correct comment to reply to an earlier comment in Philocrites’s posting, “A religion still seeking definition” (which itself pointed to something I wrote, thus coming full circle.)

In a nutshell, she says if you want ministers trained for advanced theological reflection and production, the common fellowship is going to have […]

Top ten articles for 2005

Monday, December 26th, 2005

Like Chutney at MyIrony.net, the following is the top ten most accessed articles here at Boy in the Bands this year, in order starting with the most popular.

Who are we? An invitation to consider tradition
The worst site
Church names
Guest: What [...]

New model for ministerial compensation

Monday, December 26th, 2005

Despite the small buzz around the PDF release of the Commission on Appraisal Engaging Our Theological Diversity report, I wonder if the more important report for the future of the Unitarian Universalist Association concerns the mundane — but not unimportant — matter of ministerial compensation.

I’ve written before about fair compensation for ministers and church […]

Merry Christmas

Sunday, December 25th, 2005

A blessing to your home and for New Year.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude […]

HumanLight? Newtonmas? Festivus?

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

Did anyone observe HumanLight yesterday? Newtonmas tomorrow? Festivus at all?

If yes, please comment. Include what was (or will be) eaten.

O Cooperative tree

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

Among the most potent of Christmas images is the Christmas tree: a decorated evergreen. It is so iconic that it can be reduced to almost any cone shape, or even a green, white, or silver triangle. That’s graphic power. But there isn’t any theological reason to tie a conifer to Christ.

Here’s a nice thought for […]

Last minute decoration

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

I went to Wikipedia earlier to link to a sibling project, the Wikimedia Commons. This less-well-known project has visual and audio files with as open a license as the better-known Wikipedia texts.

If you haven’t decorated yet, I guess you could put a nice wallpaper on your computer monitor.

I like Wikimedia Commons because you can get […]

Fiddle-and-lecture Christmas

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

OK: now I wanna know if Reginald Fessenden was a Unitarian.

I asked because I noticed on the Wikipedia article for December 24 that on this day in 1906 the “The first radio program, consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, is broadcast” by Fessenden. The solo was O Holy Night, […]