A future for Bible wall art?
I got an email offer today from a religious publisher for, among other things, religious wall art. Which made me think of framed flocked Victorian mottos eagle-emblazoned God-and-country plaques Jesus...
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Universalist retro wall plaque
While I writing my blog post about Bible-quote wall hangings, I recalled a small “suitable for framing” poster of the 1899 Universalist “Five Principles” a former (now deceased) church member gave me....
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Onwards, Voyager!
Source: NASA JPL Just a boy 36 fears ago when the Voyager spacecrafts went into space — and still a lad for the first Star Trek film and the Cosmos television series which made significant references...
View ArticleThe Atheist Church hubbub
There’s been a bit of agita in the Unitarian Universalist blogophere about the propagation of The Sunday Assembly, an atheist church (or church-like experience) that’s getting a lot of buzz. I wrote...
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“Bay State Notes”
This graphic, from the November 1, 1916 issue of Onward, the journal of the Young People’s Christian Union (Universalist) is too good to pass up.
View ArticleMy reading list for 2014
I’m a notoriously slow reader, so what follows maybe a few weeks, months or the whole year’s worth of reading. In any case, I’ve cleared of my bedside table, called a jubilee for lost reading...
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Starting the new year, family style
Like most Southerners, I want black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day. My husband and I thought this was the right time to inaugurate my late grandmother’s West Bend Slo-Cooker. My father discovered it years...
View Article2014 book list: Whitebread Protestants
Well I was a little surprised I was able to finish my first book on my 2014 book list so quickly. Less a review to follow than a few notes. Daniel Sack’s 2000 Whitebread Protestants: Food and Religion...
View ArticleReading list update, January 12
I’ve finished two more books — not on my list — since I last checked in. Relatively shorter and less difficult than what (I think) appeals to me, so I read them without discouragement! William L....
View ArticleThe lure of the bright lights…
So I was trolling for Universalism in digitized newspapers (as one does) and I found a short article from 1913, entitled with lurid lettering: “Clergyman Turns Actor.“ Frederick A. Wilmot, a Tufts grad...
View ArticleBookmark this resource for better print publications
A couple of years ago I ordered a book called Typography for Lawyers in order to improve the quality of office communications. And it really helped, until I misplaced it. (I’m sure I’ll find it which...
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Accidental Google auto-complete liturgy
Google Poetics is a Tumblr that presents a series of auto-completed Google searches, and relishes the accidental poetry it creates. Sometimes in borders on the profound — the wisdom of the crowds...
View ArticleWhat else here has a Creative Commons license?
So, again on Facebook, a discussion about Creative Commons licensing and the problem (both real and imagined) of using another person’s copyrighted work without permission. As I’ve written before, this...
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A visit — heck, let’s call it a pilgrimage — to Mt. Auburn Cemetery
Mt. Auburn Cemetery is well known as the nation’s first “garden cemetery” which, though now the norm, contrasted with the gloomy church yard or burial ground. But Mt. Auburn does it better than any...
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Public-domain off-center cross
With due respect to the designer of the off-center cross here, this one — with thinner lines and a smaller cross; I made it about as high as the circle radius — looks more like the ones I’ve seen used...
View ArticleDon’t fill the meetinghouse with domestic bric-a-brac
I got so many nice comments from my post about not holding worship in the round, that I thought I’d press my luck by talking about how we decorate our worship space. A few months ago I attended a...
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I’ll blame Putin
Horrible for Daisy the Dog! Some of her favorite sniffing places at the little, angular park in our neighborhood are trapped behind chain link fencing and barbed wire. The park has no formal name, but...
View ArticleIf you missed the General Assembly issue of The Beacon
So much happened to General Assembly this year that I forgot to mention the new issue of satirical magazine, The Beacon, appeared. Whatever you do, do not repeat to the activities printed therein at...
View ArticleCalling North Carolina Unitarian Universalists…
A seminary classmate, the Rev. Martha Brown, contacted me to reach out to North Carolina Unitarian Universalists about a television project she’s working on. If you have “first-person accounts from...
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Graphic Origins of the Flaming Chalice
Someone I met recently asked about the origins of the flaming chalice. He said that someone coming from a non-Unitarian Universalist background might think it had something to do with a cross. Indeed....
View ArticleLost pictures of Universalist, recovered
Yesterday, Cory Doctorow wrote that millions of public domain images, recovered from Internet Archive’s optical text recognition, have been uploaded to Flickr. The listing includes the text context,...
View Article“Threads” at 30
First broadcast thirty years ago today on BBC2. Back when we thought we’d all be nuked. I mention it now in thanksgiving. Alas, the video, once easy to find, has been pulled down.
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Saraswati statue dedicated in D.C.
Daisy the Dog took me out on my evening walk, and we happened upon the aftermath of the dedication, at the Indonesian embassy, of the statue of Saraswati, the Hindu deity of learning. I was glad to see...
View ArticleWhat I’m reading: March 1, 2015
I’ve not been blogging much lately, and I don’t have much zeal to do so. I’m a little sad that Leonard Nimoy died, but mixed with that hope that I too might live long and prosper. I could walk though...
View ArticleHow to make a palm cross
I watched a bunch of palm cross how-to videos, so you don’t have to. My bias is to make a palm cross out of a single strip, and to have both arms, the head and of the foot of the cross folded back into...
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Palm crosses: the result
Home and work life will be busy this week, so the blogging will be necessarily light. I hope y’all had a stirring Palm Sunday, and great prayers for Holy Week. Here are the palm crosses I made...
View ArticleWhat is your favorite Easter or Passover film?
An open post, for comments. I was thinking about how many Pesach/Paska films there are — or at least with a biblical theme and replayed on television this time of year. The Ten Commandments, sure, but...
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Embedding an Archive.org book
I got an aside from a Well-Respected Minister who liked “that little book video insert piece” in my last blog post. It’s the BookReader of Internet Archive, the source of the book. I think it’s the...
View ArticleThe Beacon is out — just in time for GA
I just got a pseudonymous email, informing me of the publication of a new edition of the satirical magazine, The Beacon. A magazine that proves that just because something’s not factual doesn’t mean...
View ArticleFrom the “you’re getting older” file
Oasis’s “Wonderwall” was released twenty years ago today. And your back hurts. But this is the version I prefer.
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