For the ordained gentlemen out there: my weight loss means I have two clergy shirts that no longer fit me. These are black, cotton-poly blend, short-sleeved, neckband Friar Tuck shirts.
If you have a United States address (including APO/FPO) and you wear a size 17 or 17.5, you’re welcome to it. Contact me through the contact […]
Anglican priest and blogger Andii Bowsher (Nouslife) notes a new company in the UK that makes and sells fairly-traded clerical shirts. That’s good news. One downside is the US dollar exchange rate against the British pound. (Not that clerical shirts are particularly cheap in the first place.) Also, in my experience 100% cotton black shirts […]
Even after showing pictures of my Transylvanian Unitarian stole, I could have hardly expected the Apartment Therapy blog — that directory for so many lovely items — to identify Transylvanian hemp and linen cloth.
But they have.
I remember the day I got this as a gift from Judit Gellerd, the forever-advocate for Transylvanian Unitarians and herself now ordained, ’cause I felt I might actually make it through seminary and enter ministry. (But the stole stayed off my public shoulders until I was ordained.)
I mentioned it at PeaceBang’s Beauty Tips blog and […]
For a Broad Churchman (with more than a passing antipathy for the Anglican Communion), I have a remarkable admiration for Percy Dearmer and his magnum opus, The Parson’s Handbook. (Wikipedia)
I can think of no work that has been more influential in shaping Anglican worship, taking the High Church standards and making them the norm. In […]
While I was reading the Class Matters site, promoted by Victoria Weinstein, who heard it from Hafidha Sofia (Never Say Never to Your Traveling Self), I noted
the UU blogger who left a comment, which as a state land-grant university educated person I appreciated.
how it hurts a little [...]
Welcome PeaceBang readers: here’s the stuff.
Everything I’ve written about clericals, vestments, ministerial garb, favorite vendors and GENEVA BANDS (but not BANJO) is here.
You can see what I look like in gown, collar and bands (for preaching) in this 2005 photo; this is what I mean by a medium-height neckband collar.
Since the Washington, D.C. Capitol […]
TCM is playing a month’s worth of gay cinema this month, including the extraordinarily depressing and unnerving but pioneering 1970 film, The Boys in the Band. (It was also an off-Broadway play the year before, year of my birth.)
This blog’s name riffs on it (and Geneva bands) a bit ironically. But every time I think […]
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“Ordination season” is coming up, and a bunch of clergy who might not otherwise gown will gown, and a bunch of ordinands will get getting gifts, gowns included. A thought about maintaining your vesture.
I own two gowns — one too many in retrospect — and the older is about eleven or twelve years old. I […]
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