The matter of privacy

I always struggle with how much to talk about here. Lately, more of it has been coming out in comments at other places. And I still find myself wrestling with it.
I have had some really awful things happen to me over the years at the hands of people who ostensibly loved me. And I don’t [...]

Is it me, or are Pisky-Women…

… more likely to be astute admirers of English Literature, particularly of the Austen-Woolf corridor?
I’m starting to feel typecast in my own novel. Well, at least I don’t have a collar and a crush on the local police chief.

Welcome to Episcopalia

Now some round these parts might think to be all splittin’ hairs over this and that in the anglican communion, but really, nothing gets Episcopalians up in a row more than standing firm about their parking spaces.

Wisdom

Looking back on the last four months, worshipping with Hindus,Buddhists, Indian Episcopalians (Church of India, north and South),praying in mosques, participating in the mass in the Greek OrthodoxChurch, I am reminded of a Hopi Indian belief. All people who worshipGod faithfully hold a fragile string, but when they are woven togetherit creates a great rope.
One [...]

Maintenance

Playing with technocrati, again…
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weekend is fired

I know, it was pentecost. I missed it. I was having a bad case of holiday weekend. Ooh, we have an extra day!
not that i’m out having fun, mind you. I was on a mission to retrieve some furniture from my aunt’s place in pottstown pa.
it just hasn’t gone well. we had [...]

RGBP Friday Fiving

I should start doing these again, since they’re a great way of getting to know us.
1. Have you ever successfully quit a bad habit, or gotten a good habit established? Tell us about how you did it.I quit smoking for the third and final time by taking up knitting. I quit caffeine because I was [...]

Pastor speaks of transgender experience

Being on lots of news feeds for Episcopal Cafe means I read a lot more about pretty much all the mainline denominations. (Here I pause to note that I have difficulty typing the word “denominations.” I always go for the “m” first.) This story caught my eye.
A transgender United Methodist pastor has shared his story [...]

Sara Miles on Religion and Ethics Weekly

From a release:
Sara Miles spent most of her life as an avowed atheist. As a journalist in the 1980s she covered wars in Central America and later became an editor for the left-leaning investigative magazine “Mother Jones.” But her life changed dramatically one day after she walked into St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in [...]

God bless Google Reader

I’ve discovered the joy of Google reader, which makes reading blog feeds just as easy as reading my livejournal friends list, and much easier to filter.
now if i could just persuade Google News to take Virtue Online off the news feeds, since the Onion is a more trustworthy news source, life would be grand. I’m [...]

Found

I am brainstorming a faith-related comic with my DFH. Trying to think of a catchy title, I pondered cribbing the title of a famous Depeche Mode song, Blasphemous Rumors. Poking around the internet to see if anyone else has cribbed it, I found this:
http://www.bab.thedrivel.com/?p=43
Click the file for “Gregorian.” This is a haunting song about [...]

Some suggestions for Dylan

Since Sarah Dylan Breuer has not been able to find the Next Liturgical Big Thing since unveiling the U2charist in 2004, I’d like to just pitch a few more her way and see if they gain any traction:
The Siouxsie-Sioux-charist (for old-school goths like me)The Tattoo-charist (for old-school punks I used to date)The Winnie the Pooh-charist [...]

So here I am

now, I can post my weblog by talking into a microphone. It’s kind of hardbecaused I haven’t to addition training the software yet. And every time I speak a little too clearly it puts new words in there that I never said. But everything that I say and everything that I fix makes a [...]

it’s shiny!

(PS: It’s an iSight picture, so it’s actually a mirror image, that’s my left hand.)

Murphy’s Law

Not only do I find a communications post at a Christian college, it’s within a reasonable commute.
Unfortunately, I can’t subscribe to its statement of faith, because it’s one of those “Check your brains at the door” kinda places, which strikes me as supremely ironic.
(You know, when I say “check your brains at the door,” it [...]