SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – People can keep sharing their fried chicken and green bean casserole if Illinois lawmakers get their way. The Illinois Senate voted 51-1 Monday in favor of loosening health regulations for traditional potluck dinners. The measure passed the House earlier, so now it goes to the governor. Hey, this one actually benefits Holy Moly, how ’bout that? We’ve had to change plans for potluck fundraisers a couple of times because we were reminded that we could not advertise them in the suburban paper, thus making them “public events” and subject to health department rules. So hey! Politicking isn’t…
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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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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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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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BBC NEWS | Africa | African clergy reject ‘gay’ funds Well, there had better be a trust set up for them somewhere, or divert it to charities.
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Via AKMA’s Random Thoughts: Fools’ Errand, a new interactive virtual church experiment at Ship of Fools. With pews made from pixels, the congregation logging in from their home computers and the collection sent in by mobile phone, the world’s first 3D online church is going to be church like never before. The House of God is set to become the Mouse of God. Well, it sounds interesting, might be fun to log in and check it out when they get it running – it begins May 11th, but they’re still looking for funding.
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The Ineffable Bass asks: Hopefully you haven’t ruined your mind yet with that Harry Potter stuff, ’cause I have a question: What time is the choir assembling on Thursday night? And the service is at 8 pm, right? We’re getting there at about 730pm, the Maundy Thursday service is at 8pm. The vigil lasts until midnight, but the formal service (that we sing at) isn’t longer than a normal service, IIRC. Which reminds me that I really need to update the church website. Eeesh, Front Page. Eeesh.
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Maybe this program might be interesting to suggest for later in the year at Holy Moly, once we get past Easter and Pentecost.