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 […]
The Ultimate Nightline Experience
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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 […]
Sorry, dears. I’ve been terribly busy for the last three days and my half-formed posts need some work before I publish them.
That, and PeaceBang has engaged in an interesting dialogue with her “nemesis” at Beauty Tips for Ministers. ( I actually fall somewhere between the two.) Regular and first-time commenters have made this the must-read […]
I wrote before that I was concentrating on lay-related matters for the next little while, with one noticable exception. This is it. I’ve made Geneva bands my schtick because it plays in so well with a gay male Protestant minister pun, and there aren’t a lot of those. You gotta use what you got.
When the […]
