Archive for July, 2008

Marriage happiness

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Obscured by the Knoxville shootings, there is good news from Massachusetts, where the legislature has repealed the 1913 anti-miscegenation law, which rose again vampire-style to prevent out-of-state same-sex couples from marrying in the Bay State. The governor is set to put a stake in to the heart of the law Tuesday, and the law will […]

Knoxville: Sympathetic reportage from non-Unitarian Universalists

Monday, July 28th, 2008

I figured it was worth a look to see if there were any “they deserved it” posts in the blogosphere, particularly from self-identified Christian sources. (Had there been, though, I doubt I would have brought it up, and certainly not now.) While I’m sure there’s some crank out there, especially since the notorious Fox News […]

Shooting in Knoxville

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Alarming news from the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, where a gunman open fired and seven people were hit.

http://www.volunteertv.com/home/headlines/25960934.html

I’m trying to remember if this was the church were my aunt sometimes attends. Keep solidarity in prayer and word. More later.

Later. According to WBIR, one person has died.

The age of the mailing list is over

Friday, July 25th, 2008

The email mailing list, I mean. The social Internet mode many of us started with.

For myself, I’ve read, organized, managed and written on mailing lists for well more than a decade, but these days I can hardly be bothered. Most of the ones I read have dried up. The ones I’ve recently started hardly […]

A blog mirror

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

I have an odd set of interests, or odd enough to seem distinct. But the Internet is a big non-place and finding a parallel is inevitable.

I’m terribly fond of a blog — UbuntuCat — described as “Random musings from the radical feminist Christian antiracist left - some having to do with Ubuntu.” If you […]

Getting insurance for church

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Insurance for churches: an expensive necessity, which I’d bet is sometimes difficult, sometimes avoided in smaller and newer churches. How do you know that you’re getting the right coverage at the right price?

I saw a good article a little while back on Blue Avocado, a newish site about nonprofit management sponsored by nonprofit insurers, which […]

UniversalistChurch.net under repair

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Been a busy weekend here; blogging suffers. Hubby and I placed a bid on an apartment, but didn’t get it. So we were a bit distracted.

Distracted enough, on my part, to start fiddling with my long-neglected UniversalistChurch.net site. It hasn’t been what I hoped, and an increasing number of texts available at Google Books means […]

We need transportation options

Friday, July 18th, 2008

I want you to call your representative, or better call your representative’s legislative assistant on energy or transportation, and say you support the newly introduced H.R. 6495, “To authorize programs and activities to support transportation and housing options that will assist American families in reducing transportation costs, and for other purposes.” (OpenCongress, missing full text […]

Google Docs support templates: handy for admin

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Google today made another step towards having your (church) office online. Let me back up.

It’s pretty clear the fine folk at Google have their sights on Microsoft, or really any operating system. Why have anything as pedestrian as software on your own computer if you can have access to software on a Google server? The […]

Good riddance to HIV travel, immigration ban

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

The ban on persons with HIV to travel and immigrate to the United States — a legacy of fear and the late Senator Helms’s power — seems to have died. This long-overdue piece of legislation has passed the Senate and now, likely to avoid conference, goes to the President’s desk. A good piece of news […]