Thinking out loud, what would it take to produce a small hymnal suitable for the smallest fifth of Unitarian Universalist churches? (And by extension, new congregations and perhaps not a few overseas.) For the sake of argument, I mean the “UU mainline” that has a somewhat removed, but not exclusionary, tack towards Christian hymnody.
Later. A […]
The evangelist Tammy Faye died yesterday and her remains were buried today. Let her rest in peace.
I didn’t much care for the ministry she conducted with her first husband Jim Bakker. I didn’t and don’t understand her makeup fixation. I don’t pretend to know what role she might have had with Heritage USA, the Christian-themed […]
Does anyone know of the use of a flaming chalice qua real, lit object used in congregational worship that’s older than the work of the Congregation of Abraxas, say, before 1976? Before 1980 even?
I’ll be blogging less this and next weekend because Hubby (Jonathan Padget) is debuting his new musical: “The Blue Lagoon“
Come if you can — tomorrow, or next Saturday and Sunday — and read some of the media coverage here (I get a mention) and here. (These may not be work-safe, depending where you work.)
Liveblogging. For the Doctor Who watchers out there. Not to spoil anything, but did you sing along?
Spoiler below the fold.
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Anna Belle Leiserson (Faith and Web) took me very, very seriously when I suggested using The GIMP, a free and open-source image manipulation program as an alternative to Photoshop. Hard-card Photoshop users bloggers rehearse the limitations of the GIMP, but for most people I imagine it’s a reasonable, even robust alternative. But it’s most at […]
A while back, I mentioned that the tee-tiny Upper Delaware Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Beech Lake, Pennsylvania has a website that punches far above its weight, and that it is powered by the free and open-source Drupal content management system. I love Drupal to pieces and UniversalistChurch.net runs on it. But it can do far, […]
One of the things that annoys me the most about the popular retelling of the story of the Unitarians and the Universalists is how poor or lowly the Universalists were. But many Universalists did quite well financially. Neither the lie nor the fact is all that compelling; wealth alone isn’t a marker of good or […]
The Associated Press reported yesterday that hotel-goers are less likely to practice resource conservation in their rooms than at home. I guess the temptation of tiny bottles of shampoo and sheets changed daily is too much for many.
Which gets me back to a personal conviction: the only really green General Assembly or other church fellowship […]
