March 2005
The Archives
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Let them have feeding tubes
03.30.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on Let them have feeding tubesYou’ve no doubt heard that Vatican’s strike team of private doctors gave the Pope a feeding tube today. The Vatican has yet to announce plans to provide feeding tubes to millions of starving people in the Third World, even though it would prolong their survival of terminal poverty. UPDATE: Now they’re reporting complications from not […]
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Baby, you didn’t now me when
03.30.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on Baby, you didn’t now me whenIt’s feeling like it’s time to revisit that staple of the first day of church camp: my spiritual journey. But this time from a new perspective: when and where and how I have “experienced the divine.” For now, I’m sticking to my childhood and teenage years. I hope later to get to later years. I […]
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Coffee Hour: Seach for the “UU iPod”
03.27.05 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThe current buzz at Coffee Hour (started by yours truly) starts with the assumption that UUism is stuck in Apple’s pre-iPod business strategy: cater to an elite niche market. It asks, “What should UUism’s iPod strategy be?” Just to underline the importance of this discussion: I happened to have Easter lunch today with a neuropsychologist. […]
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Look what you’ve done!
03.25.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on Look what you’ve done!Would you please stop masturbating now? Look what you’ve done! Happy Good Friday, y’all! On Sunday you can eat chocolate again without hurting Baby Jesus!
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A greased path to eventual success
03.24.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on A greased path to eventual successFollowing up on Chalice Chick’s popular post on how to run a church committee meeting, here’s a great list of “Rules We Live By” (PDF) that also deserves a close reading by church leaders. Some gems: “Big change is easier than small change.” “A good, honest question either reduces or increases suffering.” “[Volunteers] will not, […]
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Weighing in on UUism and the Bible
Lately there’s been a wide discussion in UU blogs about what place the Bible should have in UUism. I’m jumping in kind of late here, so I’ll try to limit myself to some thoughts about sacred texts in general. There are a bunch of thinkers (believe this would qualify as “postliberalism”) who toy with the […]
