Some place between 40 and Death
Posted in church geekery, liturgy, personal on 18 July 2008 - 16 תמוז 5768
F All the liturgical memories I have from SGN, the most joyful and awe-full one is giving communion. I was never worried about getting it wrong. Everything else - speaking, reading, preaching - left me worried that I’d mess something up. Giving communion came to me naturally: Placing the bread [...]
Posted in personal on 15 July 2008 - 13 תמוז 5768
S ONE Ages, one notices that the ups and downs of life are less up or downy. Today was filled with VERY good news and VERY bad news. While I nearly tap-danced the good news down the hall at work and wept openly at the bad news… at day’s end I feel [...]
Posted in metanoia, orthoparadoxy, personal on 9 July 2008 - 7 תמוז 5768
erge » made a comment on a recent post and I think I need to reply in full to it…
I know you’re angry at the Catholic (Orthodox) Church for not changing to accommodate your desires - I think you really didn’t want to leave but were honest enough to admit the church can’t change that way…
Posted in administrivia, asheville, personal on 5 July 2008 - 3 תמוז 5768
n the 24th of July I’ll leave B’lo after work and travel to A’ville to clean out my storage unit. Through the largesse of W - with my own money, I’ll add - I’m able to pay for the gas. I should be in A’ville and Friday evening and plan to [...]
Watching the original series, Tales of the City (1994), I remember so much about why I love San Francisco; so much about why I don’t live there now. Brodie asked me once if I could move there (or NYC) and without hesitation, the reply was “Yes”. The unhealthy things that SF drew out [...]
Reposted from a long time ago…
In the fall of 1984, my friend Anne showed up at NYU. She and I, along with her roommate, Linda, were prone to doing (and fond of doing) street theatre. ONe night we did the Balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet: Linda was studying R&J and Anne thought [...]
My Grandfather - Ken Richardson - raised me from the time I was one until I was six. In August of 1970 I went to live with my Mom, newly remarried. None of us suspected that she was married to a child abuser who, on October 31 of that year, at about 7:30 pm, [...]
Posted in church geekery, personal on 20 June 2008 - 18 סיון 5768
I learned a new word, editing the text of Worship At St Gregory’s last night. In an earlier edition, the following text:
Our Choir Director joins the other ministers in the vestry, where all together recite George Herbert’s poem “Aaron,” etched on the vestry mirror as a sacristy prayer. The vested party then exchange the [...]
My little corner of the Biosphere is chock-a-block with all kinds of throw-away greenery. It seems there are tomatoes growing rather like weeds in several corners of the front area. The side yard has been rather nicely gardened by the landlady’s son. But the back yard - which isn’t mine, really, just what’s [...]
Anyone know what happened to Vernon Ashe, Mar Enoch, of the Mar Thoma Orthodox Church Outside of India? (Here’s the web archive cache of their site.) I’m just trying to track down an old friend of mine in that Jurisdiction…
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