Haruo — whose blog blends two of my interests: hymnology and Esperanto — notes a poll of favorite hymns at Semicolon. It ends tonight so I spent some time sorting my favorites so to add my favorites. (She was only asking for the top ten, but this includes everything on my short list.)
Guide me thou, [...]
The tourists are coming to Washington, D.C., and despite the recession I can imagine numbers will be high. Once you’re here and housed, it is a remarkably cheap place to visit with the leading destinations free to the public.
So I have a request of local residents and recent visitors: what would you recommend to other [...]
Just got back home from an hour-long rally at Dupont Circle, organized under the banner of Join the Impact — I wondered, why not outside the White House — in opposition to the Proposition 8 decision in the California Supreme Court. But the strong subtext was preparing the assembly — I’m guessing there were about [...]
Does anyone still mark Memorial Day as Decoration Day, with cleaning and visiting graves, and taking lunch on the grounds?
Please comment if you do, or know someone who does.
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Today is Ascension Day, one of my favorites in the church calendar and one the Universalists historically paid especial attention to.
It isn’t about Christ leaving (read: abandoning) us any more than self-satisfied jokers suggest that he was launched like a deep-space probe. Rather, it reflects a spiritual truth. As the bridge between God and humanity, [...]
I’m accepting manuscripts for the third issue of the Liberal Christian, which must be released to me in the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license. (See http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 for what this means if you’re not familiar with liberal licenses.)
Themes related to governance (including coverage of the past UK Unitarian and Free Christian AGM and forthcoming UUA GA) [...]
I went to a conference last month and got a tote bag full of crap, better known as swag. Useless promotional material — I glanced at most pieces before tossing them into the recycling — and plastic doo-dads branded with a company I don’t care about. (I do like promotional flash drives, especially the one’s [...]
Unitarian Universalist congregations come in a number of varieties, and one of my favorite — and amazingly little spoken-of — are the “First Unitarian” and “All Souls Unitarians” in the middle of the United States, founded before 1930.
These churches tend to be (or were) more churchly in tone, but with a universalizing theism, or a [...]
I’m a member of the church of where?
Unitarian Universalists will own up to our historic traditions, but get much before 1825 (foundation of the American Unitarian Association) or 1644 (the Cambridge Platform, the North American basis of congregational polity) and the claims get pretty nebulous, even if the legacy is readily apparent.
I’m presently thinking of [...]
I knew this was going to be a stretch, but if I was going to take the new so-called “Google challenger” Wolfram Alpha seriously, it would have to get past its comfort zone of mathematical and financial data. And so far, the new “computational knowledge engine” — a term that’s a bit steampunk to not [...]
