I love churches in liminal places, so when I was fixing corrupted links in past blog posts, I found that the Greenland diocese of the (Lutheran) Church of Denmark has its own site: http://groenlandsstift.dk There are few (in theory) resources in English, but the site reads in Greenlandic (Kalaallisut) or Danish. I thought “who do… Continue reading More churches in Greenland
Category: Liminal places
Quiet worship in a public place
Anglican priest and blogger Andii Bowsher (Nouslife) outlines a service of worship conducted around a table, say at a cafe or restaurant. The key is low-volume, shared participation. Which isn’t too strange: people hive off to coffee shops for meeting all the time here. I don’t know if I’d come up with what he did,… Continue reading Quiet worship in a public place
Decoration Day?
Does anyone still mark Memorial Day as Decoration Day, with cleaning and visiting graves, and taking lunch on the grounds? Please comment if you do, or know someone who does.
Use your voice, less electricity to save mountains
Cranky Cindy wrote about mountaintop coal mining, and the environmental disaster is causes. Universalist fun fact: the much-reported town deluged by coal ash, Harriman, Tennessee, was the site of the church extension project of the Young People’s Christian Union, a predecessor to Unitarian Universalist young adult ministries. Not-so-fun fact: coal is not clean. It pollutes… Continue reading Use your voice, less electricity to save mountains
Wiki focuses on Shetland Islands
No pony jokes. Careful readers know I have an interest in far-away, sparsely inhabited areas. I’m grateful to the Internet — and before that shortwave radio and a childhood spent reading encyclopedia — to keep up with goings-on in the far corners of the world. So I’m pleased to find a wiki dedicated to the… Continue reading Wiki focuses on Shetland Islands
If you have some money, give
To make the most impact, I give to only a few charitable organizations, and one is the Friends of the World Food Program. The World Food Program has a good history of food relief, with an excellent record of efficiency and the capacity to make a real difference. The Friends is the US support affiliate.… Continue reading If you have some money, give
Uniting Church of Australia “patrol ministry”
I’m looking at some major Christian united-uniting churches to see how they define church membership and turned to the ever-interesting Uniting Church of Australia. More about that later; I found something even more interesting. As you may know, the Australian interior is multi-ethnic but very thinly populated, making for special social accommodations — like radio… Continue reading Uniting Church of Australia “patrol ministry”
Old lay liturgy resource
There’s a truism I heard at seminary of the ol’ days — Victorian, Edwardian eras — when women weren’t widely ordained that they could do overseas what they couldn’t do at home. Lay ministry meant more if you were a missionary. A bit closer to North American and European shores — but not too close… Continue reading Old lay liturgy resource
“From the dark depths of the earth”
A few days ago, Andrew Sullivan quoted an Orthodox chanted litany of a monk condemned to a Soviet gulag. It sounds like the words I imagine the apostles sang on Holy Saturday and the prayers of people lost in great suffering.
Gift to the future says something about today
The gold-plated record we sent into space in 1977 said more about the the people who sent it than any realistic hope that it would be found and interpreted. Now we have coming a seed vault on Spitsbergen, in the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago, to preserve the world’s agricultural genetic heritage, a.k.a. the “doomsday seed bank.”… Continue reading Gift to the future says something about today