Less than a week before the concert at Holy Moly. I’m doing some more updating of the church website to add this image, which I adapted from Synergy‘s website. I hope that’s going to be okay with Chris and the rest of the musicians; I needed a clean image that reproduced well, and most of the other ones were either too dark, or too “busy” to translate to greyscale well. Also, many of them had text that was white on black, so again kind of hard to reproduce (in addition to using a ton of toner). This one got run…
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A creative and uniquely New York solution for dealing with annoying proselytizers on public transportation: Me: “Excuse me, but do you mind keeping your voice down, I am trying to read.” Preacher Lady: (screams) “I got to testify.” Preacher lady hitches up her skirts and tells me that I am going to hell for interrupting you-know-who’s word. Two or three OTHER Christian ladies on the train start shouting at me and discussing my prospects as the Devil’s prison bitch. The last straw was a 50 something red faced man in a suit slamming his Bible towards my face. There was…
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The Diocese of Colorado has issued their Task Force report on issues relating to gay clergy and same-gender blessings. ***Dave has some thoughts on the matter. Closer to home, this same issue done got raised in Sunday’s sermon. It was only Father Ted’s third sermon of his incumbency, and already hackles were raised and worms uncanned. Tonight there was a Bishop’s Committee meeting, and the issue got added to the agenda for discussion. I got there at… 6:40 (ran late as usual after work). I got out of there at… 8:50. Stopped off for Thai takeout on my way home.…
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Funnies Stuff Bucky Katt is at it again: he proposes to make dinner for Rob and Satchel. He says he shall require a plump rat, a sprig of catnip, and a throw rug. Cotton. I think I know what the throw rug is for. Food Stuff We didn’t order a pizza tonight, we marinated some salmon in a ponzu-like concoction that consisted of soysauce, orange juice, rice vinegar, sesame oil, honey, toasted sesame seeds, ground multi-colored pepper, and garlic. This time, there was a little wasabi in there. Last time, I grated some orange zest in there. Either way, it…
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We have a priest, finally. His first Sunday was last week when David and I were out of town, so today was my first chance to meet him. His last church must have been much, much larger and unmiked – he has a very big preaching voice. Don’t know if he’ll conduct a sung service or not – I can hear the he has a very nice baritone for the hymns (even from Choir Country along the back wall) but he chose to give a spoken service today (probably because it’s the doldrums of August; Marion always sang the service,…
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The California State Supreme Court has ruled that the gay marriages performed last spring were illegal and never valid. One woman quoted in today’s San Francisco Chronicle said “It’s back to second class citzenship for us.”
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Via AKMA, I ran across the following rant on the “emerging church” movement. Stop using things like the Book of Common Prayer and candles and incense because you think they’re cool. At least go to an Episcopal service, or an Orthodox service, or a Roman Catholic service and actually learn a little bit about their liturgy before you start saying things like, “and now for an old Anglican prayer. ” It’s not just an old prayer! It’s the liturgy practiced by thousands of people all over the world – right now! The candles and incense? They mean something. It’s not…
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Okay, this works for me on so many levels: towleroad reports he’s a friend of TAR4’s Chip (not to be confused with TAR5 Chip). Anyway, the .50 millionaire of Season 4 is at the Democratic National Convention and had an encounter of his own with Bill O’Reilly. Remember him? He was one of the married guys. 😉 ‘Bill, I am gay, was married, and would appreciate you maybe next time on your show recognizing that two same-sex people in love should share the same rights as any other couple.’ He said, ‘I will consider it.’ Someone should start a blog…
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The Salt Lake Tribune — Senate’s gay marriage debate veers into polygamy discussion pretty much says it all.
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The Salt Lake Tribune — LDS backs amendment against gay marriages Feh. Tell me that’s not sending a “loud and clear” political message to the faithful. Bastids