I came across an interesting prayer while reading this afternoon: it’s offered here in a slightly edited variation on a closing prayer that is used at the de-consecration of a building (church, etc.) that is either to be razed, or to stop being a sacred space and changing its purpose to secular use. In the ...
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This is the story of an old friend who passed from us this week: the morning of New Years Day. I’m not much on writing eulogies until called upon, but in this case, Douglass Hunt and I had “a history,” you might say. 30-some years in the making, and all the great surprises were saved ...
I was following, almost as a tangent last week, the story of the latest convocation of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in their decision to put off a decision on same-gender couple marriages for another two years of study (no big surprise there: large denominations tend to make canonical change at glacier speeds.) What was most ...
The title of this entry is a writing term and should not be taken literally when thinking of “family,” “co-workers,” “significant-partner-type,” “kids,” or “Mom!” Writers tend to be a heady-type, some of whom fall in love with the jingle of their words on the page. I always saw any such semantic limerence as a sign ...
For those of you who are of the Episcopal/Anglican slant, you know (or like me, pretty much don’t care any more) that the bishops of the Communionsic are meeting for their once every 10 years confab. in Lambeth Gene Robinson, the Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire (who is also gay) is not present: he was ...
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