Category: General

Seventy-five minutes to vote this morning. The line in my precinct was nearly a block long. I have a couple of photos of this, to share later. 8:30. Tuned into Univision. As the coverage has devolved into numbers, I might as well practice my Spanish. No news from the estados claves.

Like Terrance and Katharine, as a native Georgian, I please with sensible voters of my home state to vote No on Amendment One. It is unnecessary and extreme. Even if you believe gay marriage is a bad idea, a Yes vote will ripple to attack gay couples’ ability to care for themselves, will pull rights… Continue reading No on 1

1744 unique visitors, 4757 visits: about the same as the month before. The biggest referrer is an IP-number-only visitor (uh, thanks) with the top true honors going to http://textweek.blogs.com/textweek/, http://www.universalistchristians.org/links.html, and http://www.acrossbeyondthrough.com. Thanks.

Before Zoloft’s Depressed Marshmallow, there was Jot. Growing up unchurched, my religious education was pretty well confined to the children’s television programming from the Lutherans, Davey and Goliath, and the Southern Baptists, Jot. Those, I suppose, were the days when the Southern Baptists were a bit broader; full of “Jimmy Carter kind of Baptists” as… Continue reading Jot

Quite a white back, I promised a highly placed official in a certain scientist-cum-minister-named subnational jurisdiction in a thrice-vowelled denomination that I would help with their website. At the rate I was going, church members would have been communicating by telepathy first. Until now. I’ve been looking for content management software that fit the bill,… Continue reading Learning Mambo

According to WordCount, [2009. http://www.fabrica.it/wordcount seems to be gone] the word universalist is the 64487th most frequently used word in English, between the marginally more common bukhara, rolston, and standardizing, and the marginally less common emm, routh, and smasher. I hope and assume there are a couple of proper nouns (certainly Bukhara) in that list… Continue reading #64487

Please excuse no message today: I’ve been flooded in comment spam. (I’m glad WordPress makes it easy to delete.)

Current conventional wisdom approves of a quick, peaceful death over one that passes over a duration. While I don’t think anyone would want to linger in a painful death, the recent political murders by decapitation underscores that the best death is peaceful and one where we can meet God in the right time. The violence… Continue reading From death unprepared for

A happy duty completed. The youth-oriented (but quite readable for adults) biography of John Murray, based closely on the Life of Murray is done: The Cornerstone

I was ordained “to the ministry of the Gospel” five years ago today, by the Canon Universalist Church, Canon, Georgia. It seems longer than that.