So now I can post my Yuletide reveal without being so oafish. This was my first time participating, and I had a great time. I wrote Secrets, a Mad Men/ Pan Am crossover for Gorgeous Nerd (who seems not to be on LJ). It was really fun sorting out the timeline and working in the details. And I received a superb gift that I know know is from ( Read more... )

Time to tout one of my favorite holiday events: Crafts at the Cathedral. The crafts fair will run this Friday night and all day Saturday and Sunday in Synod Hall at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Amsterdam Ave. at 110th Street in New York City ( Read more... )

From a New York Times article about the Anglican Church in North America, i.e. the people who want to leave so they don't catch teh gay:

“I think this organization does not have much of a future because there are already a lot of churches in the United States for people who don’t want to worship with gays and lesbians,” [Jim Naughton, canon for ( Read more... )

Some links to video of the cathedral rededication:

From the local CBS station

Amateur footage of Senator Clinton's speach

The trumpet fanfare on the restored great organ (shaky video, good sound)

Yesterday was the rededication ceremony for the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City. It was everything I love about being a member of the Cathedral community. The New York Times wrote about the event, with a focus on the restoration of the building following the fire of 2001. And it is beautiful. Everything is light and bright ( Read more... )

I didn't do a great deal for Lent this year. It's been tough enough to keep my head above water lately without introducing artificial obstacles. ( But I have not been an utter heathen. )

I was going to write a nice long sensitive post about yesterday's St. Francis Festival at St. John the Divine. The best thing was that I was the reader for the Old Testament scripture (the creation of the animals from Genesis). The worst part was that I was too stupid to realize in advance that this would give me a front row seat and therefore I ( Read more... )

I am back from my annual pilgrimage to Boston. I have developed such a traditional circuit for this visit that lately it's become hard to remember when I did certain things, looking back. ( Read more... )

I have been in a really interesting discussion about religious art in fabularasa's journal. In particular, we have been tossing around the different approaches to visual representations in Western Christianity and Eastern Orthodox Christianity. ( West, East, and Farther East )