Hubby and I watched the first two-hour installment of Cranford, an adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell’s atmospheric novel Cranford tonight on Masterpiece Theater, on PBS.
The first reason: it is very good and faithful to the book.
The second reason: I read the book is because he and I visited Knutsford, the Cheshire town Gaskell based Cranford […]
Since the recognized avenue for National Day of Prayer observances — supported by quite a few governors, but gladly not the Mayor of the District of Columbia so far as I’ve found; is yours one? — is a conservative Evangelical task force (Christian Science Monitor), I think I’ll keep my distance. But a couple of […]
Not much blogging in this quarter: I moved to WordPress, Hubby and I moved apartments and we got broadband, all of which took a toll. And a lot of what did go on was transcribed Universalist texts, which would be better reviewed later.
The Olympic tie-in
Sunday, August 15th, 2004
I know the canonical explanation of the flaming […]
Between rice rationing (purchasing restrictions at one store, really) in California and news of gasoline lines (and more widespread purchasing restrictions) in Britain, plus a flagging economy, well, makes everything seem very 1970s.
Should I swap my computer for a CB radio? (Solar powered, of course.)
So a question for the assembled wisdom. What 1970s musical standard […]
Unitatiarian Universalist Community Church of Park Forest
(Paging a copy editor. Paging a copy editor.)
As you may well have noticed, I’ve written relatively little about Unitarian Universalism lately and almost nothing about Universalism. Of course others have written about Universalism and that makes me happy. If you’ll forgive me, I’ve been writing about Universalism online since 1995 and I could use some help.
What themes and topics would be helpful […]
A few weeks ago, ads started appearing in my Gmail about Expelled, a film with Ben Stein that had the smell of a right-wing pity party. Boo-hoo: someone disagrees with him. Give me strength.
No link to it, but a link to Expelled Exposed, a rebuttal site. I don’t have a horse in this race […]
Died this day, Krister Stendahl, bishop in the Church of Sweden and professor emeritus of Harvard Divinity School.
I kind of thought he would live forever — and not in the way one speaks of Christian hope. He leaves a remarkable legacy. Let him rest in peace.
Link: Wikipedia biography including the Stendahl’s three rules of […]
A little light lunchtime blogging.
I love Donna Fargo, and especially this upbeat, optimistic, patriotic yet (in its own way) contrary number. Note that the version you see isn’t how it was originally recorded, but included in the spoken bridge:
And I will be proud to continue to pay taxes for the opportunity to live in the […]
Ah, Flickr, the photo sharing service has been drawing some significant image collections and I just saw some stereograph from postbellum Boston, from the collection of the Boston Library. Might I recommend the slideshow? (Go fast; the stereographs are sorted by topic so you’re bound to get a whole bunch of very similar images.)
The churches […]
