Here’s a winter holiday “for the rest of the rest of us.”
Zamenhofa Tago — Zamenhof Day — is the birthday of L. L. Zamenhof (b. 1859), the founder of the international auxiliary language Esperanto. Esperantists enjoy Esperanto literature and have parties.
Can’t promise you that the party will be large — and I have no idea […]
Stephen Lingwood (Reignite) asks if a Christmas carol service can be missional. Sure: I’d think you’re more likely to get people in the doors for a carol service than any other single service of the year, except perhaps Easter.
I don’t understand the UK religion scene, but I bet the following are true:
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Timing. Does the service […]
It’s the year 2000 in Ethiopia, according to their traditional calendar. The government is making much of it. That seems a happier even to mark today than other options. While Washington has some of the best Ethiopian restaurants in the diaspora, I’ll celebrate quietly at home, listening to chants. Or something like that.
BBC coverage
Wikipedia article on […]
I’ve listed below the fold seven annual observances recommended by the Universalist General Convention; I’ve pulled this list from the 1907 Universalist Register. Why?
I’ll be writing about the use of a church year and lectionary
the subject of Association Sunday (October 14) is live in the [...]
This is the time some church people plan for all of the next year (if not earlier.) I noticed that Easter is coming very early next year; if one tends to plan just a bit at a time, better to know it now.
The last time Easter fell on March 23 was 1913 and it won’t […]
Goodness — I’ve let the church calendar slip away from me. I nearly missed Ascension!
Nothing new to say, so please look back to the last few years’ worth of Ascension Day posts.
Hubby and I were having Thai last night when he asked me if I was going to church today. I said no, that I had taxes to do, that I had laundry to do and that — being the week after Easter; also known as Low Sunday or Quasimodo Sunday, but no fair swinging from […]
Apart from having a lively discussion with Hubby after church (and over a lamb curry) about the propriety of clapping in worship, I’m not feeling gung-ho about discussing Easter theologically. I’ve done that before and shall again. I suppose I was expecting too much of worship and the iffy sermon left me underfed, even as […]
PeaceBang, this is for you.
I have a mold, and might finally make one. Will post pictures if I do.
Hubby and I were rounding Dupont Circle last night, off to get dinner and run some errands. (”Were are the uniformed Secret Service?” I asked, as we passed the Iraqi embassy. “There were three cruisers here on New Year’s Day.”) Like much of the US, the weather was freakishly warm; some revelers were in t-shirts.
We […]
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