This post is over a week late, but I'm writing it mainly to establish a record for future reference.  This was the week that Arline sent out an email request that someone take over "leading the worship" for  class which I immediately accepted under the mistaken beief that she had meant taking over leading the whole class (which in my defense, I ( Read more... )

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... )

The early service was devoted to Lessons and Carols which is another way of saying, "There's no sermon today!" The first lesson was read by one of the Bruces. It's hard to describe this Bruce. He is on the far side of seventy and apparently a bachelor. He has a carnival barker's voice and listening to him read from the lecturn is a little like ( Read more... )

Well, I've done it, this time. Fifteen minutes into Coffee Hour and I'd committed the sin of gossip. Wait, is gossip a sin? I guess St. Paul says something about it. I'm not sure whether Moses did ( Read more... )

I would be remiss if I did not single out, that redoubtable Old Hymn, "In the Bleak Midwinter" for honors. I had not thought of it as a Christmas song until this morning and now I can't get it out of my head. And, now thanks, to the folk at Youtube, I don't have to:http://www.

Tony filled my cup three times at breakfast this morning, even though I only ordered a toasted muffin. The coffee has been weak this whole month. Paradise would turn his nose up at it without a second thought ( Read more... )