I’ve been in a blogging funk lately. I have a couple of big articles I can’t bear to write, a house that Hubby and I need to begin packing, and when all else fails, I’ll blame the Washington August malaise.
I have however, been cleaning out more than a decade of old floppies and CD-ROMs, with […]
Funny what you’ll find when you look. A couple of weeks ago, I was reading old Universalist General Convention minutes, available at Google Books. The proceedings of the 1874 convention, in New York City, were particularly interesting.
The sixty-seven delegates served a different role than our General Assembly delegates today. For one thing, the General […]
After the jump, see a set of pictures of Universalists on their 1915 “California Pilgrimage” to General Convention, held that year in Pasadena. I mentioned it in a comment tonight and wrote about it three years ago.
You may now download this short book at Google Books. Note the Temple at Salt Lake City in the […]
I caught a rumor that there was a Google Maps Street View camera vehicle in D.C. If anyone knows if that’s true, please leave a comment.
It’s about time. I’m a little miffed that some very out of the way places have been filmed but not Washington, D.C. Case in point? I found New Harmony Universalist […]
The Universalist General Convention commended the second Sunday in June, or as near as convenient, as Children’s Sunday. Don’t know if there was a fund-raising or denominational programatic piece — bet there was, though — and will report back if I find anything, including the resolution that began the observance.
There will be a series of summer services at the Heritage Center — the rebuilt historic Universalist church of Winchester, New Hampshire — of the Universalist Heritage Foundation on several Sundays this year.
Details and more at the UHF’s well-designed and informative Web site. Do spread the word; I don’t think it’s getting the attention it […]
A reader asked where he might get a copy of the 1941 Universalist prayerbook. This is how I replied:
The 1941 (and lesser known 1943 Harrisville, R.I. prayerbook) were simply abridgments of the 1894 servicebook, with the 1935 Washington Avowal in place — in the appendix — of the Winchester Profession and a new introduction by […]
What does a Shakepearian villain, the author of Utopia, a pioneering Universalist minister and record-making building have in common? A single place
Crosby Hall (1, 2) was a late medieval merchant’s house in the Bishopsgate section of London, near the even older (and surviving) St. Helen’s Church. Among its famous early residents were the Duke of […]
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