I wish we were doing this at Holy Moly: Chicago Tribune | Churches to mark Darwin’s birthday NEW YORK — Nearly 450 Christian churches around the country plan to celebrate the 197th birthday of Charles Darwin on Sunday with programs and sermons intended to emphasize that his theory of biological evolution is compatible with faith and that Christians have no need to choose between religion and science. “It’s to demonstrate, by Christian leaders and members of the clergy, that you don’t have to make that choice. You can have both,” said Michael Zimmerman, dean of the College of Letters and…
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I wish we were doing this at Holy Moly: Chicago Tribune | Churches to mark Darwin’s birthday NEW YORK — Nearly 450 Christian churches around the country plan to celebrate the 197th birthday of Charles Darwin on Sunday with programs and sermons intended to emphasize that his theory of biological evolution is compatible with faith and that Christians have no need to choose between religion and science. “It’s to demonstrate, by Christian leaders and members of the clergy, that you don’t have to make that choice. You can have both,” said Michael Zimmerman, dean of the College of Letters and…
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Yahooo! the Daily Herald published the article about Holy Moly today! They were really interested in the blog part of the site. I told him that it was really just because I couldn’t stand to work with Front Page for another moment, and switched the church site over to static pages, while leaving the blog piece working. I’m so happy! I hope the work is finally paying off. Will try to ping AKMA about this.
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Chicago Tribune | Gay families plan to go to White House egg roll The White House Easter egg roll this year may prove to be interesting. Gay and lesbian families will try to be in attendance, but may be prevented. And yes, the organizers have received hate mail. I think it’s a great idea. Expose the Bushies for the hypocrites they are, and for being the pawns of intolerant religious bigots.
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No one actually said this on Christmas Eve at Holy Moly. But there was a moment when it must have crossed someone’s mind. When I arrived at the church for a quick run-through of some of the music for that night’s service (which included an extra half-hour singing carols) there was a large altar party being walked through its route. There were about 4 times as many people as usual, what with extra torchbearers and other ecclesiastical supernumeraries, and they had a more complicated processional path to follow, in order to end up by the little creche that was set…
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… and he kissed the ‘bride’ | This is London Elton John and his long-term partner David Furnish married earlier today. Congratulations to both and best wishes for their future happiness. It’s a little bit funny this feeling inside I’m not one of those who can easily hide I don’t have much money but boy if I did I’d buy a big house where we both could live If I was a sculptor, but then again, no Or a man who makes potions in a travelling show I know it’s not much but it’s the best I can do My…
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Okay this is going to be a really churchy post, and it requires a lot of background to set up. Saturday, the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago called all the “assisted” congregations together for a pretty much mandatory meeting to discuss a big problem: namely, that the budget for assisting congregations that ask for grants from the Diocese was exceeded by the amount of requests by about $96,000. Rather a lot, really. Clergy and board members (it’s called “Vestry” if your congregation is a parish, “Bishop’s Committee” if your congregation is a mission) were strongly encouraged to attend and give 5…
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Okay this is going to be a really churchy post, and it requires a lot of background to set up. Saturday, the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago called all the “assisted” congregations together for a pretty much mandatory meeting to discuss a big problem: namely, that the budget for assisting congregations that ask for grants from the Diocese was exceeded by the amount of requests by about $96,000. Rather a lot, really. Clergy and board members (it’s called “Vestry” if your congregation is a parish, “Bishop’s Committee” if your congregation is a mission) were strongly encouraged to attend and give 5…
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I ended up sending an email off to WBEZ and a local newspaper about the following news item, which showed up on the radio, too: NYT: When Christmas Falls on Sunday, Megachurches Take the Day Off Well, minichurches can take the day off too. Holy Moly is.
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As ***Dave notes, it’s getting more than a tad embarrassing at how we in the US are behind other nations when it comes to our tolerance (or lack thereof) for gay marriage and other forms of civil union. The article also notes that the Church of England “provoked fury among traditionalist Anglicans worldwide by allowing gay priests to register their civil partnerships, as long as they remain celibate.” So that’s at least a step in the right direction (in my opinion), and although I wish they hadn’t put the celibacy restriction in. Frankly, though, who is going to go to…