Perhaps I’m just grouchy or it’s a side-effect of not going to church very much any more, but I don’t have much patience for mainline Protestant worship. The Maundy Thursday service I attended tonight wasn’t bad as such, but could have been made much better by few changes. So I make these recommendations with love [...]
I know it is a convention — at least in Unitarian Universalist circles — for preachers to end a sermon with amen and sometimes other codas, like blessed be or shanti. This is about amen, if not the others. Stop it. Stop it now. Carl Scovel (boy, I wish he blogged!) broke me of the [...]
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I really enjoy religious education professor Mary Hess’s Tensegrities blog. Yesterday she promoted a new World Council of Churches publication Love to Share, of which she herself is a contributor. You may download it here as a PDF and it is licensed in such a way that you may share copies. Get past the typically [...]
As they say, deaths come in three. First Gary Gygax and now science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, aged 90. I rather thought he would outlast all of us. While Gygax informed by geeky childhood, Clarke tapped my imagination. Did anyone else read the short story “The Nine Million Names of God” (in an anthology [...]
I’m experimenting with microformats: structured information presented in a human-readable way that makes automated cataloging easier. Microformat support will be a part of the forthcoming Firefox 3.0, so I want to practice before I advocate. There’s a WordPress plugin, thus the last (and surely future) less-than-conventional blogposts. Share this article Hide Sites $$(‘div.d2483′).each( function(e) { [...]
Hurray! Hubby and I had our first date seven years ago tonight. He’s at work, and I’m thinking deeply and fondly of him. Last night, he and I were shopping for groceries and, in frozen foods, the conversation turned to our Easter observances. To tell the truth, I was thinking of a lo-cal or vegetarian [...]
Any current or former seminarian will know about those d****d growing edges. Places where you can improve, explore, consider. And since public self-reflection is both a discipline for Holy Week and honored in the New England Christian tradition, here are some of my next steps for greener living. If that’s not too sick making. Find [...]
I started this blog in May 2003 and am closing in on 2,300 posts. Here and there, I’ve started series of posts, usually developing or pointing to resources. Some projects, too. This list is as much a to-do for me as a menu of coming attractions. Hold me to that. Church planting resources (like this) [...]
