I was bad and was asked to leave the General Assembly plenary hall one year.
Oh, I wasn’t alone. This was Before Blog, but there were two or three other current bloggers with me. We were cutting up and talking too loud. (We could pipe down or leave; we left.) I, for one, had felt obliged […]
I was thinking about how much GA costs. Whether one self-pays, gets assistance or volunteers, there are opportunity costs for this kind of meeting.
I think the first piece of literature — whether it be a position paper, a pamphlet or webpage — I think any new Christian church needs to get down is its understanding of and relationship with non-Christians.
There’s too much to unpack in a format as brief as blog writing, but having a Christian church — […]
I’ve been thinking: what would it take for Unitarian Universalism to be healthier, so that would could meet some realistic goals for improving the material and spiritual estate of this corner of liberal religiousity? If we’re going to fight, it might as be for something epic. If we’re going to struggle, it should be more […]
While I don’t believe that Free Church ministers (including Unitarian Universalists and United Church Christians) attain an ontological state through their ordination that fundamentally distinguishes them from the laity — made priests forever — neither do I really feel “that Pastor Jones is Mr. Jones on the train between his calls” as the old chestnut […]
A while back, Kevin D. Johnson (Reformed Catholicism) wrote about the strain megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll faces and the Faustian bargain that megachurch pastors often make. Now Driscoll just gives me the creeps, but I can imagine some would be quite jealous of what he’s accomplished.
A cautionary tale of getting what you ask for.
Perhaps it’s the kind of blogs I get syndicated, but I’ve now read about three nifty and geek-cred-enhancing craft projects in two days.
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has an idea about making leftover electronics parts into wine glass charms.
Marcos at Instructables makes a fabulous whisk brush out of [...]
Jane Jacobs, writing in her landmark The Death and Life of Great American Cities, remembers Ebenezer Howard, whose ill-named Garden Cities were essentially an anti-urban utopian impulse and, unfortunately, an inspiration for much of the disastrous Urban Renewal of the post-war era.
His aim was the creation of self-sufficient small towns, really nice small towns if […]
I was reading the Faith of the Free blog, noting its author, Ron Stevens came in “through the Universalist door” and is organizing a church in Summerville, S.C., outside Charleston. (I also noted he was for a time a member at All Souls, Tulsa, where I interned in 1994-95 and was known by some as […]
So the Swedes trust IKEA more than church? (Who doesn’t? Right meatball lovers?)
Certain francophone Canadian friends clued me in — right before the Quebec City General Assembly — that all the ripe swear words there are church-related. GetReligion takes on the story (through I doubt their take [...]
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