Hubby and I watched the first two-hour installment of Cranford, an adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell’s atmospheric novel Cranford tonight on Masterpiece Theater, on PBS.
The first reason: it is very good and faithful to the book.
The second reason: I read the book is because he and I visited Knutsford, the Cheshire town Gaskell based Cranford […]
Ah, Flickr, the photo sharing service has been drawing some significant image collections and I just saw some stereograph from postbellum Boston, from the collection of the Boston Library. Might I recommend the slideshow? (Go fast; the stereographs are sorted by topic so you’re bound to get a whole bunch of very similar images.)
The churches […]
Even small churches need a place to worship and carry out the work of formation and mission that makes them into full (if not filled) places. The smallest churches tend to fall into one of two solutions:
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Rented or borrowed space An owned space, often built when there were many more members
Given my […]
The Web site for Indianapolis Star reports today about a flagship former Methodist Church’s conversion to secular use.
But see about a half way down to read how the old 1911 All Souls Unitarian Church building — which the church left for new (and current) digs in 1959 — became “a combination of residences and studios.”
The […]
Yesterday, the finance blog Get Rich Slowly offered a video from 1950 of Christmas celebrations around the world as a kind of video greeting card. The United States segment was a (typical) post-war homage to the white clapboard meetinghouse in snowy New England.
I bet dime to a doughnut that the church is either Unitarian […]
I could think of a worse fate for an old church building. The Maastricht branch of the Selexyz bookstore in the Netherlands uses a medieval church with an innovative design by architects Merkx + Girod.
Photographs and details at thecoolhunter.
Today’s Washington Post has a front-page article by Paul Schwartzman about how development has helped save or fortify unstable congregations is worth a look by anyone in a historic city-center church.
As it happens, I know of most of the churches in the article. Yes, Mount Vernon Place United Methodist — until recently an architectural […]
When reading works suggesting liturgical directions — “the ceremony” — you’ll quickly come across compass directions: north, south, east and west.
These don’t mean the same things in churches as they might if you were hiking. Traditionally, altars in Christian churches — in the West anyway — faced east towards Jerusalem. So anytime you face […]
I was a little surprised to see Percy Dearmer — known for his landmark work in The English Hymnal — suggest in The Parson’s Handbook that parish choirs be smaller than the custom then and now, and that they might well be put in a west gallery if the church has one. The chancel — […]
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Michelle Murrain, writing from her Zen and the art of Nonprofit Technology blog, points out how the United States Social Forum is running on free and open source software. Fabu. Drupal and Linux (Ubuntu and Debian) love [...]
