The new Calling Ministers blog gives me some hope. Examining discrete pieces of church life from a particular, non-bureaucratic voice — here, as subtitled “Examining and interviewing for UU ministry” — is where blogging is ideal contribution, and this is an area of particular, overlooked concern.
I look forward to many more entries.
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I just rediscovered a copy of the 1992 Daily Service, published by the Jodo Shinshu Buddhist Churches of America. Back pre-Web, I used to collect small liturgical works like this, but I think it would be better if it was in the hands of someone who would actually use it. (I think I got [...]
Thank you.
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Or ordained for the second time, but as so much with early Universalism, the first was irregular enough to be legally suspect.
John Murray was the minister of the Independent Christian Church, Gloucester, Massachusetts; the record of the ordination follows after the jump, from Universalism in Gloucester, Mass. (1892, 191 ff.) A polity note: [...]
NASA commemorates the Christmas Eve broadcast from Apollo 8, where the iconic image of the Earth rising over the lunar surface was broadcast to the world.
Said Jim Lovell: “The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.”
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British Unitarian minister and blogger (CAUTE) Andrew Brown announces the Christmas Eve service at his church, the Memorial Church (Unitarian), Cambridge.
You may download PDFs of the Christmas service, within which communion service takes place. I scratched my head in a couple of places. First, I’m prone to worry when someone takes the Universalist ministerial [...]
That is, next year’s Annual General Meeting of the [British] General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches will have a “hymnb[oo]k panel” on Thursday, April 16, to be held in Chester
That’s about right. The official hymnal, Hymns for Living dates to 1985 and the unofficial but popular (and one I like much) Hymns of [...]
The longer I ponder a response to Barack Obama’s invitation of Rick Warren to give the invocation at the Inauguration, the less likely I’ll be to finish it. So here’s the nub.
An aside to Mr. Obama:
We know you’re not a liberal, but a lot of liberals, labor people, environmentalists, feminists and others supported you [...]
And I have good reasons. And thoughts about the various responses in the Left.
While I’m consigning them to words, go over to Open Left and follow Matt Stoller’s last few post on the subject. (Disclosure: I know him professionally.)
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Was the once-much-acclaimed youth and young adult site FUUSE.com simply a victim of social networking concentration — mainly to Facebook — or is there something more to the story? ‘Cause I went over there to see what was new and it’s a ghost town.
Not that I have much love for anything name with a pronounceable [...]
