Mayor Says Women Can’t Lead Prayer
A city official who only selects prayer leaders who meet his own religious criteria is not representing all his city – he’s subtly trying to establish his own religion, in fact if not in law. If Eric
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Annabelle Walk vlog #59 Multiple dogs
Video ends abruptly. The brindle pitte in the video turned out to be friendly.
A Footnote on the Spinoza Problem
I’ve just finished Irvin Yalom’s novel, the Spinoza Problem. It’s one of those “novels of ideas,” and a lovely example. Irvin Yalom is no doubt best known as as an academic and principal theorist
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Daily Bread #112
Loma Alto means “high hill” in Spanish, which was the first European language spoken in this area. Loma Alta is the second highest peak in Marin County, California at 1592 feet. The proper spelling i
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Manuals of Faith and Duty revisited
I don’t know where people get all this time to read; I’m lucky to scratch out ten pages a day. So that prompts me to shorter books and that reminded me of an article I wrote in 2008 about a set of ele
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Working Remotely Isn’t Just About the Work
Being remote doesn’t mean being disconnected. At Automattic, we find different ways to socialize and connect.
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Bench dog holes
I'm building a small workbench from a leftover slab of maple and using dovetailed drawers taken from one of my earlier household projects that was decommissioned. This morning I began drilling dog hol
Forgotten Heroes No More: The Golden Thirteen Who Broke the Navy’s Color Barrier
A Q&A with Dan C. Goldberg | I stumbled upon an obituary for one of the men, and it mentioned the Golden Thirteen. It was not something I had ever heard of before, and I was curious. I had passing fam
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The Birth of Ms. Kitty
When I was married, we had an old VW bus in which we traversed Colorado and parts west and east. My husband loved the idea of communicating with the semi drivers who plied the interstates, so he boug
Oscar’s Ghost Discussion
I’ve had a lot of requests to share this talk that I did a couple of weeks ago. I apologize that it was recorded in grid mode, so I’m not as central on the screen as I probably should be. I have uploa
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The Parable of the Second Samaritan
View the online service at 10 am, Sunday on our YouTube Channel. You may also access the service from our Live! or Facebook pages. Presented by Rev. John Cullinan, Tina DeYoe, and Nylea Butler-Moore
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Audio service, May 24, 2020
The full text of the service for the Sixth Sunday after Easter, follows. low bandwidth users might want to download and unzip the lower-quality audio file. Higher-quality audio: Download: Lower-qualit
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Do Bad Times Really Make Good Art?
Good art helps us understand the bad times in which we live. It comforts us, inspires us, and challenges us. Let’s share the good art we find. And if we can’t find what we need, let’s go make it ourse
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“The Church Has Left the Building”
I like to joke that I moved to Florida to get out of serving on the Board of Trustees at my home congregation in Tennessee. It isn’t entirely true. What is true is that I had just been elected to the
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Cat in a Box: Strike a Pose
Our cat Billie posing in the box for me, just for fun. (These are posted in the order in which I took them, as she moved around the box.)
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THE CONNOISSEUR OF SADNESS: Exploring The Hurt & the Healing of Our Lives Through a Zen Koan
THE CONNOISSEUR OF SADNESS Exploring The Hurt & the Healing of Our Lives Through a Zen Koan James Ishmael Ford The Story Our founding ancestor was facing the wall. A student on the intimate way,
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“To be quiet in the hands of the marvellous”—an intra-active meditation on part of Ammons' poem, “Essay on Poetics”
READINGS/VIDEO: “Three Minute Theory: What is Intra-Action?” by Stacey Kerr, Erin Adams, & Beth Pittard Transcription: Intra-action: a term that comes to us from feminist physicist Karen Barad. Bara
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Who is the antagonist in the church?
It’s hard to know and important to know. Kenneth Haugk’s classic Antagonists in the Church: How to Identify and Deal with Destructive Conflict gives us this guidepost: What is church antagonism? It is
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A Bad Bet
Freedom of and Freedom from Religion Coronavirus If you want to go out and take the risk of getting coronavirus by not wearing a mask, not physical distancing, not taking sanitary precautions…that is
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Welcome to Chaos Manor
Beginning back in the 1980s, science fiction writer Jerry Pournelle wrote a column for BYTE magazine called “Computing at Chaos Manor” which consisted mostly of entertaining accounts of his struggles
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