A former parishioner loaned me his copy of The Da Vinci Code about three years ago; I got about thirty pages into it was bored yet irritated with it and returned it. This is disclose I never finished the book and don’t intend to see the film. It will pass soon enough. (Anyone still talking, […]
This is the time of year a lot of ministers (and other people) think about moving. “J.D.” at Get Rich Slowly suggests using used cardboard boxes, commercially available in many cities, if your needs outstrip the local liquor and grocery stores.
See that article for details and strategies.
There seems to be some pro-Venezuela street demonstration down Fourteenth Street NW, even as I type. A woman with a bullhorn is crying out slogans about sovereignty and socialismo. I’ve seen one or two similar marches in the last couple of years.
US out of Cuba! US out of Bolivia! US out of Haiti!
Oh dear, it has devolved […]
Philocrites asks “Is Textpattern the CMS solution for Coffee Hour?” in the Miscellany section of his blog.
Uh, no, I don’t think so.
Textpattern, in my experience, was by its eccentricities more trouble to learn than it was worth. Each time — and there were several, as it promised to be the solution to several projects — […]
Who says Americans don’t care about Canada? Note one and all that the Canadian Unitarian Council is having its Annual Conference and Meeting beginning today in St. John, New Brunswick.
The site ought to be a model for UUA district assemblies, which run about the same size. Nice, too, to see a national assembly of a […]
ChaliceChick highlights an online chat featuring Washington Post Executive Editor Len Downie, Jr. in part because if the Executive Editor is God, my own dear Hubby would be a cherub. At least I think he looks cherubic.
That, and defending using the right words. I’ve noticed a rising laxity among educated people in clear and accurate […]
When I was looking for Orthodox monastaries that sold beeswax candles, I came across St. Antony Coptic Orthodox Monastery in the California Scete, in Barstow. “OK, I get it. Desert fathers. Mohave Desert.”
I’ve said it before: the Copts in America have some really good websites and are keen to preserve their liturgical culture in the […]
The next installment.
Did anyone catch the flaming chalice-evoking moment during this evening’s (series finale) Malcolm in the Middle?
Or Rev. Lovejoy’s bitter reference to the Episcopalians and “their vibrating pews” before it on the Simpsons?
I’ve gone off on illegible demonstration signs and General Assembly banners before (see the old article for other resource links) but reading the headline immigration story at UUA.org today reminds me how miserable the state of this essential democratic handicraft is. Scrawling a Sharpie on poster board doesn’t cut it. On the other hand, perhaps […]
