I knew this was going to be a stretch, but if I was going to take the new so-called “Google challenger” Wolfram Alpha seriously, it would have to get past its comfort zone of mathematical and financial data. And so far, the new “computational knowledge engine” — a term that’s a bit steampunk to not [...]
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Google Reader? Do you share your favorites?
Dear Readers: I share my favorite feed-reader distributed articles (including blog posts) with a few friends and they share theirs. I’ve found many helpful leads to important information — indeed, it reminds me of what I used to do by phone (referring to print articles or television shows) years ago with other ministers looking for [...]
“The Duties of Hard Times”
As a way of testing my PDF scanning workflow, I wanted to publish a document that was plainly in the public domain and potentially interesting to my readership.
I had on hand a sermon by the Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, the minister of the (Unitarian) First Church of Boston, preached there April 23, 1837, entitled “The Duties [...]
Good Friday service visit
I almost didn’t go to the midday service at nearby Luther Place Memorial Church (ELCA) but I’m glad I did. My liturgical experiences at this church have been hit-and-miss in years past, but the church conducted worship well and I wanted to comment on what made it successful.
The music was very good. In particular, [...]
Preachers: don’t amen yourself
I know it is a convention — at least in Unitarian Universalist circles — for preachers to end a sermon with amen and sometimes other codas, like blessed be or shanti. This is about amen, if not the others. Stop it. Stop it now. Carl Scovel (boy, I wish he blogged!) broke me of [...]
Share your links (’cause that’s how the Web works)
Part of the benefit of the ill-named Web 2.0 shift is that
the read-only web can now be both read and written (wikis, personal blogs, YouTube etc.)
a great deal of its strength comes from networks and shared resources
Here’s one that’s easy to learn, use and share: del.icio.us, the link tagging service
Get a del.icio.us account
Use the Flock [...]
Wikipedia helps for preaching
If Google Docs can help me loose weight, why not Wikipedia for preaching? (Not that I’m preaching much these days.)
Not for fact-checking (though I find a well-cited article is helpful for follow-up reading) but for style. Wikipedia has a house style that helps improve reading and factual quality while smoothing out writer idiosyncrasies. While [...]
Sermon writing workflow?
A simple request. Do any of the preachers who read this blog have an accustomed workflow for preparing sermons that you would like to share?
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Preaching notes: the Flood and the farmers
Here’s one for the preachers out there looking for some new material when you get back ’round to Noah and Company.
An ancient flood some say could be the origin of the story of Noah’s Ark may have helped the spread of agriculture in Europe 8,300 years ago by scattering the continent’s earliest farmers, researchers said [...]
Liberal resources in the old lectionary
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 [...]
