Moving pains

I have a lot of work to do on this site. I’ve merged my old Gallycat livejournal–well, at least, back to 2005 when I started faithblogging there–with my Gallycat blogspot. I need to do some serious information architecture tweaking (that is, develop a category system that’s actually USEFUL), migrate my widgets and blogrolls, and [...]

Things can always be worse

Blogs of Fail.
http://www.shipmentoffail.com/
http://failblog.wordpress.com/

Lenten offerings

Change always seems to accumulate in weird places for me, most often next to the washing machine (cause I always clear out pockets there) and on my dresser (because sometimes I remember to empty my pockets before they go to the laundry). So DFH (whom I’m happy to report has redeemed himself verily after [...]

Oh, so that’s what you wanted!

I got a significant number of hits from people looking for liveblogging on the Diocese of Virginia annual council. That cinches for me something I've been toying with for a while now–blogging about the Diocese as a complement to what I do for the Episcopal Cafe. It's a new direction for me, as I'm much [...]

Networking, part 2

Helen on Facebook
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Putting their money where their mouths are

Clergy and lay delegates at the annual council, faced with a slashed budget for Shrine Mont camp scholarship budgets, were strident in their call to have the funding restored.
But of course, when you restore something in one line, you must cut it somewhere else, right?
So it was put to the council: how many of [...]

this one’s for mike and company

There were a whole bunch of clergy attending the emerging church discussion group and I think out of the people there I had the most experience in it. Mike, you’re so much more well versed in it as a whole–would you be willing to post a comment with links that the clergy I then pointed [...]

Live from the Diocese of Virginia Annual Council

I’m at the press table, although if any of you are here you’re not likely to be reading this since you’re at Eucharist.
But I will probably be here tomorrow, too, so please find me!!

Networking

In lieu of content. Been a rough week–turns out my dad has a Jefferson fracture of the c1 vertebra, and my brother was assaulted in a bar the other day and wound up getting stitches in the ER. I really don’t think I can take much more of this, and the 5,000 unread messages [...]

Fun with headlines

Mad Priest should enjoy this one:
Church Announces Different Kind of ‘Comeback’But it’s not the headline so much as the deck:The Roman Catholic Church announced that it will exhume the body of Padre Pio, an Italian priest made a saint in 2002, to better conserve his remains.

UnCAErtainty

So, I’ve been working in association publications and communications for three years, and before that I was in university communications for four years. I really want to get my CAE designation, but I’m pretty sure I’m not eligible yet–and won’t be til I’m almost 40. I’m in the middle of applying for my MPA [...]

8 things

There’s an eight things meme circulating about that I’ve done many times before, but at ExPointOh there’s a whole new audience to reach, and Ben Martin tagged me. So here are eight things you don’t know about me.
1. I’m most well-known on the blogosphere as a contributing editor for the Episcopal Cafe. That crowd [...]

Brewpub in a church?

[Backdated post -- will likely show up in feeds in February.]
On the Cafe today, I picked up a church-of-beer story that’s a little bit backwards, as a decommissioned church is being eyed as a possible site for a brewpub.
It bears noting that such a place, in my mind, would be the perfect gathering place for [...]