• Episcopal

    I’ll Take My Communion Untainted, Please

    July 25, 2009 - By 

    Don’t want no boy cooties messing up my holy snack. So there, @ScottGunn! I’ve been following the “two-track communion” story for a couple of days now, and since it’s caused no end of amusement to my atheist and agnostic friends and family, it seems like it’s time to chuck my two penn’orth in the plate. Really? We’re the problem? | Seven whole days Now, friends, it’s time for the shoe to go on the other foot. Word comes from England that Blackburn Cathedral has set up two-track communion whenever a woman (gasp!) is presiding at the Holy Table. On those…

  • Blogs Wot I Read - Only in Utah...

    Mother Love, Daughter Rape

    July 25, 2009 - By 

    Why it’s important that parents of gay children love and accept them just as they are, and why Utah is a deeply strange place: A Gift, from the Homophobic Culture « One Utah When we watch the LDS church claim they aren’t homophobic, and that common ground can be reached, even while they destroy bills that would help reach that ground, we are just watching a big, none too subtle, wink and nod at the culture of hate. When we see the single largest cultural influence in Utah raise money to take rights away from people based on beliefs they…

  • Home Improvement

    Going Postal

    July 25, 2009 - By 

    When it absolutely, positively has to get there… sooner or later. Maybe. Buzz Machine: The Death of snail mail and Sunday papers I was actually waiting for some mail to arrive, and finally received it today. My eye doctor had promised to mail my latest eye prescription card 2 weeks ago today, but the office manager forgot to put it in the mail until a few days ago. My husband David was waiting for stuff, too, and had checked the mailbox 3 times today. Third time’s the charm; the letter carrier must have just gone by. I rarely get mail…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Before

    July 25, 2009 - By 

    The "guest room" is currently the room where we dump travel stuff and home improvement junk left over from the floor job on the smaller room. Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Before By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 25 Jul ’09, 11.17am CDT PST

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Required Reading for Sarah Palin’s Impending Leisure Time

    July 23, 2009 - By 

    Charlie Pierce’s “Idiot America.”Dumb as a Blog: Dumb As An Interview: <i>Idiot America</i> Author Charles Pierce on truTV.com Mockery has been an important part of informed citizenry ever since the concept of citizenry was invented. Satire is a weapon of the disenfranchised and the un-empowered. One of the most distressing developments of recent times is that people like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter are regularly referred to as “satirists,” when, in fact, they are mere bullies on behalf of the established powers. I don’t argue that mockery makes us smarter, but it can make us better citizens. I hope Sarah…

  • Clan: McTiVo - SciFi/Fantasy

    Children of Earth Day Three

    July 22, 2009 - By 

    We’ve really, really been riveted by Torchwood’s 5 part miniseries this week. Today’s the day when the creepiness ramps up even more. Meanwhile, our surviving heroes have to start from scratch, because their cool underground lair got blowed up on Monday. Torchwood: Children of Earth – BBC America The Captain Jack Harkness character is immortal, and one thing I’d wondered about was what would happen if he was blown to smithereens. We found out on Day Two – this was one of those nagging questions that always bothered Highlander fans, too. Jack faces some of the same issues as a…

  • Episcopal - Good and Joyful Things - Hot Off The Presses - Parish: Holy Moly (ECUSA)

    Wait, How Do You Grow By Excluding People Again?

    July 19, 2009 - By 

    As a liberal Episcopalian, I cheered and was cheered by the passage of several inclusive, progressive resolutions at the recently concluded convention. We can go forward now, I think. #ecgc Pared-Down Episcopal Church Is Looking to Grow Through ‘Inclusivity’ – NYTimes.com Not everybody agrees with this view, or is happy about the changes – even some in my own state, in the two more conservative dioceses downstate, away from the Chicago urban/suburban area. They are genuinely grieved, and they believe that the church is in the process of ruining itself. I don’t agree; I think we are finally ready to…