This journey, filmed by Joel Lawson, is my old neighborhood leading to my new neighborhood (and where my office is.)
Sunny today — just as snowy.
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The snow has stopped falling here in D.C., and I’m tired of writing about it. Back to church administration.
Earlier, I wrote that much of the utility of newsletters — not e-newsletters, but the ones handed to you or sent by mail — comes from their physicality, thus providing a connection to the ministry that sends [...]
I love churches in liminal places, so when I was fixing corrupted links in past blog posts, I found that the Greenland diocese of the (Lutheran) Church of Denmark has its own site: http://groenlandsstift.dk
There are few (in theory) resources in English, but the site reads in Greenlandic (Kalaallisut) or Danish. I thought “who do I [...]
Anglican priest and blogger Andii Bowsher (Nouslife) outlines a service of worship conducted around a table, say at a cafe or restaurant. The key is low-volume, shared participation. Which isn’t too strange: people hive off to coffee shops for meeting all the time here.
I don’t know if I’d come up with what he did, but [...]
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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Cranky Cindy wrote about mountaintop coal mining, and the environmental disaster is causes.
Universalist fun fact: the much-reported town deluged by coal ash, Harriman, Tennessee, was the site of the church extension project of the Young People’s Christian Union, a predecessor to Unitarian Universalist young adult ministries.
Not-so-fun fact: coal is not clean. It pollutes the air, [...]
No pony jokes.
Careful readers know I have an interest in far-away, sparsely inhabited areas. I’m grateful to the Internet — and before that shortwave radio and a childhood spent reading encyclopedia — to keep up with goings-on in the far corners of the world.
So I’m pleased to find a wiki dedicated to the Shetland [...]
To make the most impact, I give to only a few charitable organizations, and one is the Friends of the World Food Program. The World Food Program has a good history of food relief, with an excellent record of efficiency and the capacity to make a real difference. The Friends is the US support affiliate.
With [...]
I’m looking at some major Christian united-uniting churches to see how they define church membership and turned to the ever-interesting Uniting Church of Australia. More about that later; I found something even more interesting.
As you may know, the Australian interior is multi-ethnic but very thinly populated, making for special social accommodations — like radio schools [...]
There’s a truism I heard at seminary of the ol’ days — Victorian, Edwardian eras — when women weren’t widely ordained that they could do overseas what they couldn’t do at home. Lay ministry meant more if you were a missionary.
A bit closer to North American and European shores — but not too close — [...]
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