More proof that some people think they have a direct line to God: combine a cell phone mast with a crucifix, stick it on a church steeple, and have unlimited anytime minutes for prayer in your local calling area. It could also be taken as a commentary on how much passion and sacrifice is needed in order to get decent coverage without excessive drops… or possibly on what a person goes through when attempting to get to level II on a service call. Strangely enough, we actually kicked this idea around at Holy Moly, because our steeple already looks like…
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Right, right, right, we’re all thoroughly bored with the following poll: What do you think of gay marriage? All your drag bridesmaid are belong to us. 13 %(2 votes) It doesn’t affect me, but it’s kind of icky. 0 %(0 votes) Congratulations, where are you registered? 73 %(11 votes) It’s against God’s law and threatens my family. 6 %(1 votes) Who is this God person, anyway? 6 % (1 votes) Total votes 15 So there will shortly be a new poll to get bored with. Huzzah. (oh, and congratulations to all newlyweds. Now let’s all defeat the idiots that want…
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Church today was funny (now there’s an opening line). It’s Pentecost and a lot of the readings were about tongues of fire and the Holy Spirit and the voice of a strong wind and so on. Every time one of these themes would come up, there would be a rumble of thunder. There were several perfectly timed violent thunderclaps during our priest’s talk with the kids from church school, putting a very strong emphasis on everything he said. The church school had some sort of project today, so they had popcorn and watched a video about Noah before they came…
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Well, I finally got the simple web pages for “Holy Moly” updated (see The Church of the Holy Innocents) and added the date of the “Holy Rollers” car show. Apparently, we’ve been getting entries already – car shows are big around here, I guess. We’re going to hold it on the incredibly large and expensive-to-maintain lawn, which is ideal for this kind of event, since it’s construction-grade sod from the 60’s. And now I’d better get out of here. Big party piece for the choir, and we’re short-handed (or voiced) this week.
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An old friend who’s an Episcopal priest in Washington state sent me a link to the “Christian Denomination Selector.” My top 5 results were: Episcopal/Anglican Church Evangelical Lutheran Church Methodist/Wesleyan Unitarian Universalism Liberal Quakerism
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Statistics for the current poll: STATISTICS What do you think of gay marriage? All your drag bridesmaid are belong to us. 0 % (0 votes) It doesn’t affect me, but it’s kind of icky. 0 % (0 votes) Congratulations, where are you registered? 85 % (6 votes) It’s against God’s law and threatens my family. 0 % (0 votes) Who is this God person, anyway? 14 % (1 votes) Total votes 7 Thanks for your participation! I’ll leave it up for a while yet.
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There are times when I think people are capable of not being so bad after all — times when it’s impossible to keep the grin from spreading, and you wonder if you’re really worthy of all this spontaneous stranger-loving goodwill, and maybe they should save it for the elderly ladies who must’ve been through so much more. I feel like a kid — a 28-year-old who’s lucky and ahead of the game, even though my straight peers all seem already married and property-owning, but they’re in such a different world, these guys are closer, really, and even the straight cheerleaders…
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Just four months after an alliance of conservative Christians was threatening a churchgoer revolt unless President Bush championed an amendment banning same-sex marriage, members say they have been surprised and disappointed by what they call a tepid response from the pews. Most of the groups supporting the proposed federal constitutional amendment concede that it appears all but dead in Congress for this election year. As Massachusetts prepares to become the first state in the nation to allow same-sex marriage on Monday, several high-profile conservatives say they are now pinning their hopes mainly on reaction to events there, betting that scenes…
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It seems we have a new parish priest-in-charge – meaning a vicar that runs more than one parish. I don’t know too much at this point but no doubt will find out more as soon as I get home. Yay!!!!
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BOSTON – A federal judge Thursday rejected a last-minute bid by conservative groups to block the nation’s first state-sanctioned gay marriages from taking place in Massachusetts next week. The line to get married forms on the far left in Provincetown – get ready, set, go! Run like the wind, couples in love, and get hitched while the hitchin’ is good! And yes, so far my own marriage is still not threatened one little bit by the marriage of gay persons. So there, nyah.