As you may know, I write the day’s blog post the night before and I came home a bit tired on Monday, so the post I planned with have to be parsed out over a few days.
I have been comparing the collects and “Mass readings” — appointed Epistles and Gospels — [...]
Even before friend, blogger and minister Adam Tierney-Eliot wrote about using the Easum-Bandy Uncommon Lectionary for his church, I pondered the use of an older single-year lectionary. I had seen these worship reading lists for ages, but nearly all of them dried up in the post-Vatican II reforms, when the Roman Catholics moved to a […]
Chris Walton (Philocrites) brings to our attention the new hymnal Harvard University’s Memorial Church will dedicate tomorrow. This is that hymnal’s fourth edition; the third edition coming from 1964. Learning its lineage, I made a quick Google search and uncovered the first and second editions dating to 1895 and 1907 respectively. These may be downloaded […]
Stentor Danielson picks up on two kinds of churchly homophobia and I suspect the quieter one he mentions is the more toxic. (Debitage).
Lifehacker reminds us that the five-year window “Do Not Call” registry so many of us used will be re-opening next year. You can reset the [...]
I recommend fair-trade coffee, and that medium-sized and large churches purchase it from Equal Exchange, a workers cooperative. Unitarian Universalists may buy it through their Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Coffee Project. Other religious “gateways” include the Brethren, Catholics, Friends (AFSC), Lutherans, Mennonites, Presbyterians, the United Church of Christ and United Methodists. Good coffee, ethically sourced.
But […]
There’s some talk among Unitarian Universalist Christians if the current UUA ad slogan — Is God Keeping You From Going to Church? – caters to atheists. I don’t see that; I just think it isn’t particularly effective. But I knew I was coming from a particular minority opinion and as an insider.
So I asked someone […]
The new version of Ubuntu Linux looks like it’ll be relatively popular if the slow downloads today were any indication. Download by BitTorrent — quite legal — is your best and fastest best, or to wait a few days if you can.
Here for the torrent list; most people will want gutsy-desktop-i386.iso
But perhaps you wonder what’s […]
Much happiness.
The new version — the Gutsy Gibbon — of Ubuntu Linux has arrived, and it suggests an easier than ever upgrade. I’ll be trying it out.
You can celebrate by downloading it at Ubuntu.com
I got a pingback from I Herd the Werd, “christian faith. universal salvation. a UU blog in process” — and I’ll certainly be watching it.
19 October. A new subtitle: “Christian faith, Universal Salvation, and misc. commentary on the global Christian Church”
I know some of my readers are keen Ubuntu Linux users, and tomorrow the new release — codenamed Gutsy Gibbon — comes out.
Do you plan on installing it? Investigating it?
Please comment, especially if you are a minister or church employee or leader, if this is your first time with Linux (or Ubuntu Linux) or both.
