I have the scantest, dimmest personal memories of flannelgraph: probably from some Vacation Bible School experience. To review, flannelgraph is a visual aid for teaching Bible and other lessons using printed felt cutouts that stick to a cloth frame. Gentle and simple and still around, it seems, in some quarters. (You can buy flannelgraph figures […]
I could think of a worse fate for an old church building. The Maastricht branch of the Selexyz bookstore in the Netherlands uses a medieval church with an innovative design by architects Merkx + Girod.
Photographs and details at thecoolhunter.
Stephen Lingwood (Reignite) asks if a Christmas carol service can be missional. Sure: I’d think you’re more likely to get people in the doors for a carol service than any other single service of the year, except perhaps Easter.
I don’t understand the UK religion scene, but I bet the following are true:
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Timing. Does the service […]
Today is the first day we’ve had sticking snow in the District of Columbia — yesterday we had rumors of early flurries — so the city is a bit quieter.
But none the less busy here . . . for some reason UniversalistChurch.net is down. Will have to look into that.
Back about a year ago when I was without a Day Job, I twice interviewed with a Catholic political lobby; there I learned the concept of subsidiarity.
I’ll recycle the current Wikipedia article’s content, since it wraps up the idea pretty well.
the principle which states that matters ought to be handled by the smallest (or, the […]
Even though Day Job is around the corner from the CBN News office, I don’t think much about that candidate for America’s #1 lunatic: Pat Robertson.
The readers at Towelroad, using a YouTube-d video grabbed by Right Wing Watch, is having a “I can’t believe it” moment.
Seems the 700 Mob now thinks I-35 is […]
The case of Gillian Gibbons — the “Sudan teddy bear teacher” — makes me sick, but I’m a little disturbed how the law is given a pass in the editorial pages, focusing instead on Gibbons’s misunderstanding, naiveity or somesuch.
I don’t have much hope in the Sudanese legal system, it being a failed state. But perhaps […]
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