There's a new storytelling card game (website, Kickstarter) a la Apples to Apples/Cards Against Humanity, which is all about generating pairings and telling stories about them -- but I'm not interested in like half the characters in the deck ... so I'm just gonna hand-edit the cards and am crowdsourcing that list ( Read more... )

In his [Father's Day] sermon, Jeff M. said that the idea that "Abba" means "Daddy" was made up in 1966, scorned by scholars, and later retracted by the person who had initially put it forward. Apparently the current scholarly consensus is that "Abba" is just Aramaic for "Father ( Read more... )

Am in my hotel room, weighing napping vs. catching up on the Internet (I caught up before I left my house Wednesday morning and have been skimming since).

Speaking of the Internet -- hey, a love meme (link goes to my thread therein ( Read more... )

"Luke and Us" zine is a go. So I have to decide if there's any formatting I want to do for my preach. Yeah, possible Art Night project. Am open to suggestions.

Are there Christian churches that have/talk about paying membership "dues" like many shuls/synagogues do?

So, my introduction to Alyssa Bereznak/Jon Finkel thing was Sady's Tiger Beatdown pieceI feel like I remember reading stuff about Sady being problematic, but I can't remember or find them now. So my Subject Line question is a genuine one. Though, okay, it would probably be more accurately phrased as, "Remind me why I am advised to be cautious ( Read more... )

I'm looking for a blogpost which I apparently didn't save to delicious (or if I did, I did in a way such that I can't find it now) about framing the debate -- about how the far-right keeps proposing really radical stuff and thus shifts where the "center" is perceived to be. One of the examples in the piece was about homeschooling (I'm almost ( Read more... )

So, if I wanted to stay in San Francisco for a week in August (arrive Wed. Aug. 10, depart Thurs. Aug. 18) and be public transit accessible and have wifi and maybe a pool ... where can I stay that won't break the bank?

So, Magpie Girl is doing a coaching call tomorrow on values-based living. I signed up for it sometime back and was this morning reminded that, right, figuring out what one's Core Values are would be valuable prep work to actually get anything out of this exercise. Who wants to tell me what my Core Values are?

Elizabeth [surname redacted] from Cambridge Welcoming Ministries begins this month's discussion on queer identity and spirituality. As the term "queer" is reclaimed, and assumptions about sexuality and gender challenged, spiritual communities are also rethinking their theology, worship and prophetic witness around these issues.
This is a great blurb ( Read more... )