There are those time I wonder how I ever ended up among the Unitarian Universalists. Then there are those times I go, “Oh yeah, there’s that . . . .”
The pocket Esperanto hymnal I won on eBay arrived today.
When I was looking for Orthodox monastaries that sold beeswax candles, I came across St. Antony Coptic Orthodox Monastery in the California Scete, in Barstow. “OK, I get it. Desert fathers. Mohave Desert.”
I’ve said it before: the Copts in America have some really good websites and are keen to preserve their liturgical culture in the […]
Stephen Lingwood has been riding hard the hymnody found in British Unitarian churches. His most recent comment is in reference to the General Assembly Opening Ceremony just past:
By the last hymn I would have been holding my hands out, if it wasn’t for the fact that the last hymn was to the tune of ‘The […]
I got an email last night from Richard Hurst, deacon and (a rather talented) liturgist at Universalist National Memorial Church, my immediate former pastorate, asking me to note his new blog. I do, gladly. You may know him from his now-dormant blog, Universalist Sundays. The new blog is Hymns of the Week, which keys liturgical […]
Hubby and I went to a church today where sung was one of the — what’s the right word? — most darling hymns out there. Almost as cute as “I Sing a Song of the Saints of God” which wins the prize. Normally I’m not keen on it because it’s rarely sung with the verve […]
Jess’s reviews of the new hymnal supplement are good reading.
I’ll write more when I get a handle on this new keyboard.
Unless you’re a German-speaking Anabaptist, hymnals don’t last forever. The twelve-year-old Singing the Living Tradition has reached or passed its half-life, and so a supplement is in order even if it means — joy! — having two (or more) books in the pew racks.
The UU Enforcer has bought it, and has a review […]
Despite the obvious capacity for listening to music, I got my MP3 player to listen to sermons, talks, and other resources — in other words, to learn something on the bus to and from Day Job.
I’ve started loading the MP3s from the Lutheran Liturgical Prayer Brotherhood — which I blogged about earlier — and thought […]
The matter of finding a suitable XML-based format took another turn when David Warnock noted that ThML is a dead end, and has been for three years. (And yet scads of new texts are being pumped into it.)
He suggested OSIS, but alas it has no support for hymns.
Yet CCEL has hymn texts in OSIS, ThML, […]
David Warnock posted about trials he’ll be making in a hymn XML microformat.
I think I’ll look deeper in the Theological Markup Language (ThML) hymns option, founded and championed by the folks at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. It looks a bit more robust, even though Br. Warnock has ideas so well digested that I […]
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