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I recently got a burr in my saddle to write a best selling book on Leadership. This is a really good idea, especially since I happen to be a Leader myself. "How do I know if I am a Leader?" you may ask. If you have to ask, then you are not a Leader. Real […]
Lest anyone think I post irregularly—I’m looking at you, 9rules—I have decided to divulge Chutney’s secret rhythm method for blogging. Posting frequency here follows a ten to fifteen day cycle, with a peak and trough at either end, with days off for berry picking and on-site injuries. Sort of a biorhythms approach, but with the […]
Act 1: Last fall I co-taught a course at church on fundamentalisms. Ten weeks long with homework assigned. Charged $35 because that seems to help people take something seriously and show up consistently. More learning that way. This past Sunday, one of the class members, a newcomer to the church, came up to thank me […]
On a discussion at UU Enforcer a bit back, Peacebang had the following to say re: UUs hiring Boomers over GenXers. My congregation is in the early stages of a search process so that discussion and Peacebang’s comments are especially pertinent right now. I’m guessing from the context that Peacebang counts herself among the Boomer […]
Slate.com editor David Plotz is blogging the Bible. A “lax but well-educated Jew,” Plotz is reading Genesis himself for the first time, without the filter of rabbis or commentary. No more watered down Sunday School versions for him. He starts with the rape of Jacob’s daughter and the resulting massacre of a town by his […]
Someone won the fifth grade science fair. A cool representation of the relative sizes of the planets. Earth hardly shows up at all next to the sun. (Hat tip.)