http://www.peacebang.com The manic mind of the minister -- Auntie Mame Meets Cotton Mather Sat, 17 May 2008 00:53:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since I'm getting on a plane on Sunday, I decided to update my funeral arrangements and obituary for the first time since 2006. I changed a few hymns, provided more phone numbers, and added a few items for my obit. I made it explicit that SweetieBang has care of ... http://www.peacebang.com/2008/05/16/funeral-arrangements/ I concluded the last class for my Doctor of Ministry degree last night. I still have two papers to write, but the part about being a student with other students is over, and now I head into that wilderness of writing my final project; a process I hope ... http://www.peacebang.com/2008/05/16/shes-got-no-class/ So we can conclude a few things from this article. One, it's never a good idea to drink that much boxed wine. Two, there were way more people in Britian in 2001 who identified their religion as Jedi than there are Unitarian Universalists on membership rolls right now in congregations in ... http://www.peacebang.com/2008/05/14/darth-vader-would-like-to-light-a-candle-of-concern/ I just looked up the website for a fairly new UU congregation for which I preached about nine years ago. I wanted to see if they were still "alive," as it were. I believe they were planted with help from the Extension Committee and quite frankly, after discussing their idea ... http://www.peacebang.com/2008/05/14/red-flags/ Because it's good and right for beagles and boys to be on the beach. And because it's good and right for me to be with them. http://www.peacebang.com/2008/05/13/before-papers-and-before-class/ Hola, chickadees! I am currently on a five-week sabbatical from church and taking an intensive course in the spiritual discipline of discernment. I leave on Sunday for the Festival of Homiletics. It was SO HARD not to go to church yesterday... but it helped that I've had a stomach bug ... http://www.peacebang.com/2008/05/12/whirlwind/ This just made my day: Hi Rev. Weinsten, My name is [D.W.] and I am emailing you from ____, Idaho. I just wanted to let you know that you were an absolute lifesaver last week at the ______ Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, and I'm sure you aren't even aware of ... http://www.peacebang.com/2008/05/10/why-i-publish-sermons-on-the-internet/ Could someone please make it their summer project to write a great screenplay about Mr. Emerson and his buds? We've just had this great HBO series on John Adams, so why not Waldo, HUH? Carlos Baker's book Emerson Among the Eccentrics would give an enterprising writer plenty of ... http://www.peacebang.com/2008/05/08/wheres-the-emerson-bio-pic-weve-been-waiting-for/ Suzanne wants to resurrect the thread of comments from this old post, and I say why not? I'm working on a paper and will start a ten-day intensive course tomorrow, so original material is unlike to issue forth from my fingertips until much later in May. She writes, Peacebang, I’m going ... http://www.peacebang.com/2008/05/08/singing-bout-jesus-in-the-uu-context/ Holy Doctor of Ministry, Batman! I just got a gander of my May intensive course on congregational discernment ("Grounded in God") and broke out in a cold sweat at the number of books and papers assigned, including one due THIS WEDNESDAY AT NOON. And here I was thinking I ... http://www.peacebang.com/2008/05/05/syllabus-shock/