Greetings from the Republic of Ireland!
The flight Philly – Dublin – Shannon was uneventful except that we were surrounded by the forty-voice choir from Lockhaven University (PA) who are ona nine-day concert tour of Ireland. Nice kids, but a bit rowdy.
We got speedily through passport control and customs, rented our car (an Opel Corsa), [...]
In the next few minutes and packing this machine away in its carrying case, then putting it and the other luggage into the car …. and in about 40 minutes we will make our way to our friends’ home and then they will convey us to the airport.
But before I go, I want to wish [...]
Susan Russell has put a very very funny bit of Mother’s Day drivel on her blog – “the most hysterical Mother’s Day video ever” she says.
She may be right! It’s funny ….
It’s after her publication of the church ad from the New Times Op-Ed section, so scroll down.
And Happy Mother’s Day!
Joseph Loconte, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, wrote a piece on Friday acknowledging the 100th anniversary of the publication of Walter Rauschenbusch’s Christianity and the Social Crisis. In keeping with the tone of discourse from the EPPC, his comments come from a conservative Christian (shall we say, “Religious Right”) [...]
I belong to an email listserve community which today is remembering one of its former members who died on this date four years ago. She was a sort of “Mama Theologian” to many of us and we miss her. Her daughter (also a member of the community) shared with us that she would [...]
Another reading from the Book of Wisdom this morning. These have been very strange readings: today’s ends with comments about “the elements chang[ing] places with one another,” fire and water acting in strange ways, and land and water creatures changing places. But it begins with a verse which once again calls our current [...]
We are on our way to Ireland. We leave day after tomorrow. Here are our travel plans:
On May 13, we leave the United States and on May 14, at 9:20 a.m., we arrive in Ireland at Shannon Airport
We will stay at the following accommodations on the following nights:
May 14
Bunratty Castle Hotel
Limerick, Co. [...]
The reading from the Daily Office Lectionary for today is from the Book of Wisdom (14:27-15:3). It begins with this verse:
For the worship of idols not to be named is the beginning and cause and end of every evil.
Earlier today we had a brief (too brief, in my opinion) discussion of [...]
Episcopal Life Online today includes an Ecumenical News Service report on a plane crash in Cameroon which happened early this week:
Africa’s main grouping of churches is trying to comfort the families of victims of a Kenya Airways plane crash in Douala, Cameroon, and a Muslim group has called for a full probe into the tragedy, [...]
12 May 2007
Finally, Some Good Advertising!
The Episcopal Church placed the following ad in the Op-Ed section of today’s New York Times.
This is good stuff! Generally, I’d say it was too wordy, but not where it was placed. We need more positive marketing like this. (I’m grateful to my friend Scott who scanned the newspaper page and produced [...]
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