I meant to highlight this weeks ago, but it was right when I was going to Georgia for my grandmother’s memorial service. Dan Harper wrote an excellent article and persuasive advocating progressive religious education.
He highlights the shortage of resources in the field, which prompted me to buy a book on the subject, namely Sherwood Gates’s […]
PeaceBang, I knew it was just a matter of time. Today she wrote (”Why I’m getting more Calvinistic“):
I just don’t think we can’t be trusted with just plain Self-Culture in the manner that Emerson preached it, and toward which Channing and Henry Ware, Jr.’s optimistic Christianity pointed us.
Yeah, that’s what I said a while back, […]
Stephen Lingwood has been riding hard the hymnody found in British Unitarian churches. His most recent comment is in reference to the General Assembly Opening Ceremony just past:
By the last hymn I would have been holding my hands out, if it wasn’t for the fact that the last hymn was to the tune of ‘The […]
The General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, our cousins in Great Britain, have begun meeting. Stephen Lingwood of Reignite has started reporting.
The most remarkable fact is how he took (only) two hours by train to get to Chester, the GA host city. That’s like from here to Philadelphia (maybe) or the northern outskirts […]
I was going to write about the UUA Board of Trustees’ revisiting the Principles and Purposes by means of a review committee, as required by the Bylaws and now overdue. The I got sick — better now — but Philocrites picked up the theme and a number of people have commented there.
I get the feeling […]
I’ve been sickly in bed, away from work, watching movies, and coughing.
I come back to see whose been posting and commenting and see that PeaceBang’s comments about Easter and — quelle horrible! — her profession of Christ’s bodily resurrection has become darling of the UU Blogosphere. Perhaps I should start spouting off about the […]
Past are the cross, the scourge, the thorn, The scoffing tongue, the gibe, the scorn, And brightly breaks the Easter morn! Alleluia!
(A. C. Jewitt)
The next installment.
Despite some grave problems I had with Greyhound recently — no, because of them — I was looking around for alternate long-distance bus services. And dang if the UK based Megabus didn’t start US service a few days ago. In the Midwest only, I’m afraid, and hubbed out of Chicago. There might be some good […]
“Employee of the century” Arthur Winston died today peacefully in his sleep, aged 100. He retired last month after seventy-two years of service with Los Angeles’s transit authority. I don’t know what part of this story stuns me most.
Read details at his Wikipedia article.
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