After a recent blog post, I ordered the 2007 National Association of Congregational Christian Churches (NACCC) hymnal Hymns for a Pilgrim People, published by (nominally?) the Congregational Press and GIA, better known for its Catholic hymn resources.
I’ll review it in bits as I have the occasion.
First, it comes as a relief. We’re in a trough, [...]
You are currently viewing the monthly archives for July 2009
Monthly Archives July 2009
Congregationalist hymnal is here
Liberal Christian #4 pushed back
Who says it gets quiet in Washington? Between day job work and a much needed vacation, I will push back the publication date of the Liberal Christian magazine to give it justice. Look for it on August 24 instead of its scheduled August 17 release date.
Not ideal, but I suppose disclosure is something.
Share this article
Hide [...]
The best PDFs in review
I recently backed up my home computer, reinstalled Ubuntu Linux and decided the terabyte-sized external hard drive was a must. (I recall my younger self backing up with floppy disks. A quick calculation suggests it would take 7510 pounds of those old disks for my current data. And I’m nowhere close to using up that [...]
Effective evangelism observed
Last weekend, Hubby and I observed a clever and (I think) effective episode of personal evangelism. Take notes.
The up-escalator was out at the Dupont Circle Metro station, so we waited with a small crowd at the elevator, some of whom had been there a couple of minutes. Two women — who had a visiting conventioneer [...]
Web media should be accessible, too
Piggybacking on Kim Hampton’s first-things-first approach (do read it) to ability and accessibility, let me humbly ask that all producers of online audio or video media create a text transcript to accompany it.
This is a matter of access in these ways:
Some people cannot see and other cannot hear. Text allows people to read, to hear [...]
Destination Moon
Having just turned forty, I tend to mark my life in terms of distance from events of the summer of 1969. And forty years ago today the first human beings stepped upon the Moon: the only place apart from our own home-world where we have set foot.
I was very young when humanity reached the Moon, [...]
Henry Allingham, 1896-2009
While people will (rightly) remember Walter Cronkite, I want to recall Henry Allingham, who died today. At age 113, he was the world’s oldest man and one of the last surviving veterans of World War One. He was also the last surviving founding member of the Royal Air Force, and in his last years [...]
UUA Elections thought #1: public financing
Since the newest storm concerns a proposal to radically change the way the president of the Unitarian Universalist Association is elected, I thought some of the unspoken (or less-spoken) issues should be teased apart. I’d love to hear what you have to think.
One meme goes thus: “the UUA presidential race is expensive, and so only [...]
Challenge: shopping with Secretary Clinton
Yesterday, among stories about technology deployment, I read one featuring State Department employees who noted, before Secretary Hillary Clinton, a desire have the Firefox browser. I can appreciate that — it’s a good browser — but when an undersecretary pushed back (correctly) that nothing is really, in deployment and maintenance, cost-free, the Secretary replied from [...]
What hymnal to choose for UU Christians?
Saturday night, Hubby and I watched the pilot episode of country-church-based Britcom, The Victor of Dibley (1994). I remember that from the look of the hymnals and the announced numbers that it was Hymns Ancient and Modern. Not a bad hymnal to have as a reference work; I do.
That year was about the end [...]
