If there’s going to be one Christian service of communion in a Unitarian Universalist (or Universalist or Unitarian) churches in a year, it will probably be in Holy Week: at Maundy Thursday, Palm Sunday or perhaps (a bit eccentric, but probably a surviving morsel of Victorian liberal theology) Good Friday.
There’s a hint, but not […]
I am disturbed that
the UK Home Office will deport 19-year-old gay Iranian Mehdi Kazemi back to Iran, where his life is most surely in danger. (He was studying in the UK.)
there isn’t a strong campaign to pressure the UK government to allow him to stay there.
Kazemi’s […]
Tap water is cheap, democratic (in that water authorities provide a public good) and remarkably safe. It doesn’t take enormous amounts of oil to be bottled and shipped. Apart from the rare, unavailable bottle — mostly when I’m hot and exhausted in tourist areas of D.C. and there’s no fountain, or when I’m visiting someone’s […]
Part of the benefit of the ill-named Web 2.0 shift is that
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the read-only web can now be both read and written (wikis, personal blogs, YouTube etc.) a great deal of its strength comes from networks and shared resources
Here’s one that’s easy to learn, use and share: del.icio.us, the link tagging service
Get a […]
The buzz today was less about oil touching $108 a barrel than New York governor (and Clinton superdelegate) Eliot Spitzer touching — er — something else. And doing the deed in my fair city!
Not only here, but at the nearby Mayflower Hotel. Here’s the Universalist tie-in: the Universalist General Convention in 1935 met at the […]
. . . and because faithful people are more effective when connected freely, I’ve decided to take Michelle Murrain’s suggestion and install Flock, a social networking-empowered web browser, based on Firefox.
To tell you the truth, Firefox has gotten so bloated lately that I was looking for other options, at least for occasional use. Like her, […]
I almost missed the fact that members of the Pullman Memorial Universalist Church, Albion, New York (21 members) started group-blogging church events, as Chalicefire. While unofficial, I shouldn’t wonder if the blog will become the de facto church site — as Google records — in time and the tone is pleasantly and lightly outwards-reaching.
A model […]
I have made it a point to avoid Unitarian Universalist youth and young adults politics long these many years.
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Even when I was a teen, I thought youth groups were boring. If you dare criticize the acronym-heavy youth and young adults, you can expect to be condemned by them, or as often, by […]
The pressure on world grain production — crop failures, diversion of biofuel production — has created huge price increases and I have a hard time imagining how millions of the world’s poorest people will manage to eat when they get priced out of the cheapest food available.
Point one: Cyclone and storm damage leaves Bangladesh’s […]
I’m enjoying David’s Dish, the new blog by David Gillespie, a ministerial colleague serving the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spartanburg as its Lifespan Faith Development Director. Southern, Christian, Unitarian Universalist: a rare combination, but like attracts like, no? And he writes about evangelism, too. What’s not to like?
“Sandlapper?” you might ask. That’s a South Carolinian […]
