Kim Hampton replied to my last post, writing:
It’s funny that you’re writing about this today. I’ve been thinking about fear for the past week or so (especially since Barack won in Iowa). I’ve worried the whole time that Barack has been in the race that he would get shot.
Yes, I’ve been harboring a fear […]
I attended the Christmas Eve service at the Swedenborgian Church of the Holy City: I wrote about this service in 2005 and 2004.
The service is essentially the same as I wrote in 2005 except there were more people present and it began at 5pm. I didn’t time it but think the whole thing took […]
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 […]
The more I read about what younger Jews are doing to revitalize worship and community, the more I want something similar for Christians. I often see themes of lay-centered, multi-participant and tradition transcending worship in groups (which have adopted the older and more general name minyanim; somehow the usual translation “prayer quora” doesn’t cut it) […]
While most Unitarian Universalist ordinands leap to the late Peter Raible’s ordination and installation guide — which has never much impressed me — I contacted W. Scott Axford, the minister of First Universalist Church, Providence. He has a knack for such things and was quite helpful for that day in 1999 when I was ordained […]
I’ve created a special purpose blog, BitB’s Universalist Church Year at http://boyinthebands.com/church-year.
It is very new, with little content. My goal is to add three or four weeks of the readings and collects appointed traditionally, including those used by Universalists, in the old one-year lectionary each week. Then when I’m done, I’ll start adding commentary, links […]
So I have this 150 year old prayerbook, The Gospel Liturgy: A Prayer-Book for Churches, Congregations and Families. Prepared by direction of the General Convention of Universalists. Apart from Sundays, what observances does it commend? Well, many are always on Sunday and I bet the rest got transferred to Sunday, but so I suppose I […]
As I mentioned a couple of days ago, if you used a lectionary in the pre-Vatican II/pre-CCT lectionary days — and you weren’t from one of the Eastern churches — it was almost certainly the traditional Western lectionary. While today its use is most associated with very conservative folks, this wouldn’t be true of past […]
As you may know, I write the day’s blog post the night before and I came home a bit tired on Monday, so the post I planned with have to be parsed out over a few days.
I have been comparing the collects and “Mass readings” — appointed Epistles and Gospels — [...]
Even before friend, blogger and minister Adam Tierney-Eliot wrote about using the Easum-Bandy Uncommon Lectionary for his church, I pondered the use of an older single-year lectionary. I had seen these worship reading lists for ages, but nearly all of them dried up in the post-Vatican II reforms, when the Roman Catholics moved to a […]
