The Actor’s Temple, so progressive in its founding that it admitted the once less-respectable entertaining class, has been getting by in its Hell’s Kitchen location, but the risk of insolvency has moved the small congregation to modify its space as — what else? — a performance space. It isn’t always easy — well-loved pews vanished […]
It would be stretch to say I enjoy travelling by intercity bus and sleeping in hostels, but if without these accommodations I could not travel, I manage and make the most of the experience and there’s usually some story to tell afterwards. Because the New York Marathon ran over the recent UUCF Revival, I stayed […]
The Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship Revival conference begins next Thursday at Fourth Universalist Church, New York. Here’s a picture of 4th U.
I didn’t take this photo. “wallyg” did and thank you. I am using it because wallyg licensed its use under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license, outlined here. This is the least restrictive of […]
James (Pereginato) pointed out that the Masonic Hall, where the Washington Universalist parish met when Walt Whitman was a visitor (c. 1870), was not demolished as I had feared. In fact, it is in a vital part of downtown across the street from the National Portrait Gallery (which has been closed for renovations for six […]
In a comment, Mitchell Santine Gould wrote:
A preacherman with Ubuntu. Wow, that’s even hipper than worshipping The Flying Spaghetti Monster. PS Do you have any quirky and exotic stories about Universalism in the nineteenth century?
Steven Rowe put up a picture of the old Universalist Herald building, Canon, Georgia, on his blog.
I was formerly the minister at Canon and it brings back memories. But unless it is now disguised, the building is gone.
SC Universalist
As my regular readers know, I am keen to find solutions for unusual churchly needs, and will gladly use a “secular” resource. (Such as the time I pointed out an IKEA candle holder as a better-than-average flaming chalice base.)
Hubby and I were at Target yesterday in a failed quest to find new chairs. (We took […]
I’m using my Christmas scanner to digitize hundreds of photos. Found this photo of the interior of Rockwell Universalist Church, Winder, Georgia. The church is extant, but no longer in the UUA. The photo is from the late 1990s.
Anna (Call and Response) thanked me for pointing out tin tabernacles, in which post she adds she likes like tiny houses. I like those, too. (One was featured on one my favorite shows, Small Space, Big Style)
Well, if you like that, you may love the late Samuel Mockbee’s Rural Studio, of Hale County, Alabama.
Rural Studio’s […]
The 1998 PBS series, From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians continues to impress me, and I’ll still point people to the legacy website. Good to keep bookmarked if you study theology, teach in church, or preach. A particular page called Why Did Christianity Succeed? The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Considers History — excerpted from […]
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