I was fairly on time Sunday morning. I was still angry at Simon and the other gay guyss in the congregation for missing the YA Hike. Therefore, I was determined to sit with Front Page and his family who usually nested on the other side of the sanctuary. I arrived first, at a pew I thought would be within reasonably close once they arrived, but, ( Read more... )

Still getting the Lectionary Calendar straightened out in my head (apparently, we celebrate two Sundays of Christmas, not one, thus making this only the second Sunday of Epiphany ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning at 5:30, in part to have a phone session with a guy from the workshop. The topic was "secrets", the ones we never talk about. We had been partners for one such session at the workshop and hit it off so well that we made a date for 5:30 this morning. Since sex formed the basis of both our secret lives, it seemed appropriate to ( Read more... )

Our Education for Ministry (EFM) group had its Christmas party last night; it could not have been more festive. Frank, our fellow classmate invited us to his apartment "In The Heights", literally, in Lin-Manuel Miranda territory, a neighborhood in which I have not set foot in over twenty years ( Read more... )