Johnny We Loved Ye, But Hardly Knew Ye
May 22, 1992 was the last broadcast of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson on NBC. It ended a thirty year run that began in New York as the young comedian and game show host took over the reigns of
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Morning Prayer May 23, 2013
Awake, my heart, to how Love calls me today. Like the rose welcoming the songbirds fleeing the hawk, may I make refuge and way for those seeking safety and love. Like the songbirds, after fear may I c
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Evening Prayer May 23, 2013
Beloved, help me hold onto the courage I have, nurture it, and follow it through for love, for mercy, for goodness' sake. When I have had to scurry away, flee, or retreat, may I have the courage to go
Religion
Southside Presbyterian Church: Transforming the Heart of America Part II
In 2009 there were some anecdotal stories surfacing of water bottles being vandalized and border patrol agents shooting holes in the bottles. THe government stated this was not true and it was all an
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Southside Presbyterian Church: Transforming the Heart of America Part 1
In the afternoon the SOAWatch Delegation went to Southside Presbyterian Church to hear Rev. John Fife, past minister of this congregation and Stephanie and Alejandro of the Southside Day Labor Center,
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I Fail the Bechdel Test
I am probably the last person on Earth to find out about this. I may look like I’m all hip and groovy or whatever hip and groovy people call themselves this year, but in fact, I am slow in picking up
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The River
I don't know if I can imagine my life without this river. It is as though no matter how many times the world is destroyed-(and by the world I mean their worlds, our world, my world- as if there were
A fiddle-and-lecture order of service
In one step, from the medieval to Modernism. The Western Conference Unitarians — think of the middle third of the United States a hundred and more years ago — were known for a kind of bibical rational
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The Female/Female Statuory Rape Case: What is the Moral of this Story?
There is a news story that came to my attention yesterday when one of my friends posted a plea on Facebook. In case you have not read about it, a high school senior named Kaitlyn, who recently turned
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Hand-made Endangered Species Cards for a good cause
Endangered Species Cards created by the Service is Our Prayer Class are still on sale. Each card has a cover picture of an endangered species and a quote from one of our kids on the back. They cost $5
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A question occurs to me
While reading the latest news about the unfolding IRS scandal, and the offhand suggestion that "even in the best of times," the Internal Revenue Service is "the federal government's most reviled agenc
The Kochs' pet coke
Your pets are charming, I'm sure, but the Koch brothers' "petcoke" not so much. Rather like an unwelcome black mound in the backyard, or a steaming heap alongside the Detroit River. Hello Alberta tar
Are you there, God? It’s me . . . the girl who never shuts up.
My minister tells a story about deciding, as a little girl, that she wanted to be a teacher when she grew up. In fact, if I remember right, her realization was that she needed to be one. So she wrot
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Cultural divide
The author of Pills Are Not for Preschoolers: A Drug-Free Approach for Troubled Kids has a specific agenda we presume, but if her opening fact for this short piece in Psychology Today is accurate, it
lazy locavore, lettuce liability & a strawberry surprise
During the spring and summer, a lot of posts go up around here about the incessant washing, hulling, paring, chopping, freezing, and canning - oh the canning! Have you noticed that talk goes a bit qu
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Same old, same old
Inside Joel on Software, which I've probably already read in serialized form, the acknowledgments include a hat tip to "the inspiration, free hosting, and publicity provided by Dave Winer of UserLand
Sermon: "Faith's Future, Humanity's Future" (Delivered 5-19-13)
Call to Worship [This call to worship was read by a member of the youth group.] Good morning. My name is Reverend Thom Belote. Today I was going to preach about the future. So I built a time machine
Spark Within
This WordPress.com site is the bee's knees
The new, new thing
55 million blogs a year ago, edged into 9 figures now. He said "certainly I'm not in a position where anybody should be listening to anything I say about anything else in the world," but as the headli
