Even though I took Portuguese as my required language at the University of Georgia, I never really got the hang of it, and so after twenty years I go to Google (rather than my own skill) to read the site of the Congregação Unitarista de Pernambuco, no Brasil. That is, in Brazil. (And that’s about [...]
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Quiet worship in a public place
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 [...]
Nice thing from the Christian Scientists, part 2
Worth mentioning a few things Hubby and I saw at church last Sunday that I thought were very clever. Worth mentioning now since said church is more more likely than ever to be demolished.
No printed orders of service. Of course, why would a Christian Science service need them, seeing as they’re a regular as an [...]
Bible marking tool from the Christian Scientists
While the Obamas went to services at St. John’s (Episcopal), Lafayette Square, Hubby and I went to Third Church of Christ, Scientist — a block north — for Easter services today. (Universalist tie-in: before they built this building, they owned the former Church of Our Father (Universalist), now demolished.)
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I’ll later write about a [...]
Liberal churches with liturgy online
Perhaps it’s the nature of Unitarian, Universalist and kindred churches that have established liturgies, but I’ve noticed that the more of a church’s liturgy is online, the more historically aware and traditional in tone it is.
I’m thinking of First Universalist, Providence, and the Chapel in the Garden, Bridport, with tidbits here and there.
But perhaps I’ve [...]
Difficult orders of service?
To round out the Order of Service Trilogy: for religious leaders and administrators (paid or volunteer) — what parts of the producing a printed order of worship cause you the most trouble? What, if anything, could make it easier?
Coming from a small church background, I know that the print pieces were always more trouble [...]
Disasterous orders of service?
Derek’s comment in the last entry — about what not to do — is likely to ring more bells than an appeal to the best and brightest in the Exciting World of Orders of Worship.
So please leave your peeves and horror stories here.
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Exciting orders of service?
I ask without irony: is anyone doing anything exciting in the typesetting of worship orders of service (service sheets)? Seen anything interesting? Please comment.
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English-language Buddhist liturgy handbook for the asking
I just rediscovered a copy of the 1992 Daily Service, published by the Jodo Shinshu Buddhist Churches of America. Back pre-Web, I used to collect small liturgical works like this, but I think it would be better if it was in the hands of someone who would actually use it. (I think I got [...]
“A Practical Wedding”
That’s the name of a blog I just started reading. (HT: Get Rich Slowly) No, I’m not getting married again. But the “wedding industrial complex” has bothered me for years, and I’ve seen the ideal of the perfect wedding get in the way of what it seemed the couple (or at least one half the [...]
