The anonymous author of the UK Unitarian blog praises the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Poconos for opening a bookstore. OK, I think, if it is a second-hand store for fundraising, or if combined with a coffee shop, again as a fundraiser or as a community focus point, then fine. But the economics of such […]
Just back from church: Grace Reformed Church, UCC, (no web site), the church Hubby and I attended last week, and which is warming on me. Down the alley from us, and uses a liturgy — influenced by the same nineteenth century “catholic” influences that shaped “high church Universalism” — that is almost identical to the […]
The next installment of Ballou’s Treatise of Atonement.
Another reason I like out-of-the-way churches (if not so out of the way as Tristan da Cunha or South Georgia Island) is that they tend to cut through to essentials. If there are only a scant number of English speaking Christians in Country X, you had better not appeal to a strict form of churchmanship […]
Tristan da Cunha is a veritable metropolis next to South Georgia Island, which has no permenant residents but a museum and research station, yet more tourists, and countless penguins. The only settlement — if you can call it that — is Grytviken.
It has a little church of Norwegian origins, and remarkably enough, witnessed its first […]
My regular readers know I have an odd interest in remote places. There’s something fascinating about the romance of adventure and a more immediate, to-the-soil-or-sea way of life: a romance I prefer to observe by Internet. And there’s a resonance of God seeking out the lost or liminal. As a subset, I’m fascinated by Christian […]
Having finished transcribing part one, chapter three of Hosea Ballou’s Treatise on Atonement, I move (at Dan Harper’s invitation) to part three, chapter two. The sections are individually longer, so I will type out and post three at a time, rather than five as before.
I’m hard to upset, but the news about the upcoming halving of Darfur rations did it. If I put my mind to it, when trying to loose some flab, I can maybe eat 1500 to 1800 calories, knowing I have plenty to spare on the waistline.
The current Darfur ration is 2100 calories — to become […]
The Dan Harper-led transcription of Hosea Ballou’s Treatise on Atonement is going well. One of the benefits of typing a text out over scanning and repairing is that you really get to read the text at a speed that you better understand it. So typing benefits you and the general public.
That said, I hope to […]
The next installment, ending part one, chapter three.
