If you’re a Linux user and work on the command line and care about church calendars . . . well, perhaps you’ve missed this as long as I have. To find the date of Easter for a particular year according to the Western churches, say 2009 type: $ ncal -e 2009 For the Eastern churches, [...]
Dear readers: I have a question for you. What do you think is the best organized or best typeset (or both) hymnal. Ideally something I could get my hands on. And while I’m at it: have any of you seen evidence of a hymnal published in an electronic format like PDF? Share this article Hide [...]
As I confessed in my last post, I shopped today — vegetables, dish soap for the office, a yoga mat — on this countercultural Antifeast, Buy Nothing Day. So what? It’s clear that the polish has warn off the observance. After all, isn’t deferring a purchase by a day the economic equivalent of security theater? [...]
I thought I would chime in on the bus ad campaign by the American Humanist Association. Bill Baar (Pfarrer Streccius) and Steve Caldwell (Liberal Faith Development) have said their piece, but I’ve actually seen one of the ads. Just a few minutes ago, and I’m not impressed. I’ll admit: I’m hard to impress with respect [...]
Made crepes according to Julia Child “The Way to Cook”. Used some of the clarified butter from the crepes to put a sear on the parcooked potatoes and squash. Cooked remaining onion and mushrooms in clarified butter, too. Thinned the gravy and strained over the mushrooms. Reheated crepes, added slivers of cheese, filled with mushrooms [...]
Add a half-cup of flour to the butter-stewing vegetables, browning to a dark roux. Kettle of water boiling. Water in to make a gravy, add tomato sauce, gravy browning, sage, thyme, pepper. Simmer, add more herbs and some salt. Cut off heat. Grr. There was no celery to be had last night. Potatoes perfect, knife [...]
Up at 9am. Halved and seeded acorn squash. In a dish with a bit of water. In the microwave for 7 minutes. Peel and chop a large carrot and onion. Reserve about a quarter-cup of chopped onion. Ah, no tomato paste. But there’s a half-cup of leftover tomato sauce. Sweat onion and carrot in a [...]
For the third year, Hubby and I are having a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner. Why? I feel bad for the turkeys, and the customary “pardon one, slay millions” political theater is terrible theology. This is a Universalist blog, you know. And besides, what could we possibly use with all that food: the turkey meat and the [...]
I got an email from a universal salvation Facebook group that included some links, including the Indian Hills Church, North Little Rock, Arkansas. It was founded — and was until 2004 affiliated — Southern Baptist, but its universalism, or more accurately restorationism — is pretty obvious in its still-Baptist-formatted statement of faith and who they [...]
On Saturday, Hubby asked where we might go to church the next day. We settled on the farmer’s market — a bit of grim humor; in fact, we didn’t go — because the church options nearby are so unappealing, particularly when compared with the life and energy I see among those looking for organic greens [...]
