June 2006 was good for blogging: I found fun — some quirky — resources for church life.
Cool nineteenth-century Universalist fact
Friday, June 2nd, 2006
Walt Whitman, when in Washington, D.C., worshipped in the Universalist parish.
Masonic Hall today
Sunday, June 4th, 2006
James (Pereginato) pointed out that the Masonic Hall, where the Washington Universalist parish met when Walt Whitman was a visitor (c. 1870), was not demolished as I had feared.
“Liberala Himnaro†hymn list in English
Friday, June 9th, 2006
I realized that if you take the translated-from-English hymns in this collection, plus the Consultation on Ecumenical Hymnody’s 150 and you get a really good working set for a moderate to liberal Protestant church.
The parson wears black outdoors
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
[W]e have to visualize the cappa nigra which I would offer for your ecclesiastic sartorial consideration.
Sunday, June 18th, 2006
The idea came to me when I was reading a decades-old report on the height of kitchen fixtures.
The Hymnal Code
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
I wanted to share an old semi-secret about how that hymnal was put together.