Some Revival pics
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006My camera isn’t that good in less than sunlit places. But here are a few photos from Revival within Fourth Universalist Society’s church building.
Archive for November, 2006
Sights in Manhattan Chinatown, food for religious thought
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006I spent Monday, after Revival, in the Lower East Side and Chinatown. I noted Jewish merchants with and without earlocks, and wondered what the difference in their faith customs were. I followed one of the later into a bakery on Hester and had the best hamantashen I’ve had in years. I heard (then saw) a […]
Download Pendle Hill pamphlets
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006Paper has hardly been better used than by the gems of Quaker spiritual wisdom known as “Pendle Hill pamphlets” but have the form of extended tracts. (Universalist and Unitarians once used this genre extensively, now almost completely lost.) Now, that famous Philadelphia-area retreat center has some of their classic pamphlets available for download. A great […]
Revival update
Sunday, November 5th, 2006A quick note from New York. Revival turnout was smaller than I expected — more about that when I get home — but the keynoter I heard — the Rev. Dr. Gary Dorrien, of Union Theological Seminary has made up my reading list for the next year.
Off to Revival
Friday, November 3rd, 2006I’ll try to post photos of New York. Leave your comment here if you have requests.
Why worry? Go fake.
Friday, November 3rd, 2006Philocrites wrote about a now-tabled resolution in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts that would have asked clergy not to solemnize marriage, but only to go so far bless civil marriage. I hate this cut-nose-spite-face business, especially if there’s an underlying benefit of getting church-shopping brides and grooms off your back. Philo also knocks some big […]
Can I post by email?
Friday, November 3rd, 2006Just a little test to see if I can do it. Haven’t tried in ages.
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To Revival (and bringing Ubuntu discs)
Friday, November 3rd, 2006The Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship Revival is underway in NYC. I’ll be taking a bus at 2:00 a.m. to participate in the Saturday and Sunday sessions. PeaceBang, Philo, Adam, Ron and to ye non-blogging friends — I’m coming!
I’ll also be bringing discs with the Ubuntu Linux operating system (the stable, long-supported 6.06 release, which is […]
Two things notable from the former parish
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006Ordinarily one files the happenings of one’s old pastorate under “let sleeping dogs lie” but there was two items of note (after a quick scan) in the November newsletter from Universalist National Memorial Church that I thought I’d point out.
First and of more general interest, the PDF download version — perhaps the print version, too […]
UCC “E word” resource worth getting, emulating
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006Mock-euphemizing evangelism as “the E word” is a bit twee and a bit 1990s, but the point is well understood: the UCC has an evangelism toolkit to download offered with a wink. The UCC, like the UUA, has a cultural problem with evangelism and without sensitivity to that feeling it will never be overcome. I […]
