My facebook status is "Elizabeth celebrates 5 years with her bff (in a gen way we swear!)."

It is Ari's birthday, which means it also the anniversary of our mutual LJ-friending. We have now been friends for FIVE YEARS.  So it has actually been A Long Time, as opposed to it just feeling like forever. We had been friends for less than 2 years the first time someone told me they thought we were dating (WriterCon 2006). In March of 2005 [ tag ], over the course of about 24 hours I ...

Walking with the Wild God

... a private thinky post. October 18th miriammoules On prayer [public post] hermionesviolin Unpreached sermon #2 [public post] October 20th the_lady_lily Grace [public post...community-locked post] October 23rd the_lady_lily [WAY] [public post] October 24th hermionesviolin Unpreached sermon #3 [public post] The criteria for making a WIGIT ...

unpreached sermon #3

Pentecost 21 (Year B) * October 25, 2009 Job 42:1-17 Psalm 34 Hebrews 7:23-28 Mark 10:46-52 I wasn't going to write a sermon this week.  I didn't like the lectionary , and the daily lectionary wasn't helping, and I don't have the grounding in church history to want to preach Reformation Sunday , and I'd already written a vision of the church earlier in the week . But then, ...

unpreached sermon #3

Pentecost 21 (Year B) * October 25, 2009 Job 42:1-17 Psalm 34 Hebrews 7:23-28 Mark 10:46-52 I wasn't going to write a sermon this week.  I didn't like the lectionary , and the daily lectionary wasn't helping, and I don't have the grounding in church history to want to preach Reformation Sunday , and I'd already written a vision of the church earlier in the week . But then, ...

Despite being DISMISSED like umpteen times this morning (inside joke), I actually worked like all day.  I started an email to my best friend at like 11am and sent it at like 4:30.  I got lunch at like 1:30 and considered eating outside (60s F, sunny) but went back inside and ended up doing more work.  (I totally could have chosen to take a hard lunch hour -- please don't think I was forced into...

"Summer and winter and springtime and harvest"

Okay, I'm not loving Emil Fackenheim's What Is Judaism , but I love this (p. 96): The Lord's mercies are not consumed. . . . They are new every morning; great is Thy faithfulness. (Lam. 3:23) This passage is found, of all incongruous places, in the Book of Lamentations. I know that song! Great is Thy faithfulness! Great is Thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see. All I have ...

Okay, apparently I need to clarify some things.

When I say , "I want a radical, queer, church, which is rooted in the Bible (and tradition), and which is engaged -- with the text, with the tradition, with the world -- and which doesn't make assumptions," Cambridge Welcoming Ministries (CWM) basically _is_ that church. I don't always love it, but it's still Doing Church Right in a lot of ways. My frustration was coming out of my recent ...

update

Thursday On my way in to the office from the gym, I talked to Jen S. (who is apparently just back from maternity leave last week).  We talked about how I go to the gym every morning and how impressive that is and how going to the gym is a good thing AND WE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT WEIGHT AT ALL.  She said she hasn't gotten back to the gym but she always feels like she has so much more energy during ...

NCOD sermon (DVD commentary)

I was finishing up my NCOD sermon before I left for evening church (where I knew Laci would be preaching using the lectionary and in full knowledge that it was NCOD), so there are parts that are shaky, plus I didn't have time to include "Things I learned while writing this sermon."  So, DVD commentary.  Because yes, fandom has shaped me. Commentary is in [red bold brackets] . So, a ...

Walking with the Wild God

... welcome to post a WIGIT, a public thinky post or a private thinky post. 8th October the_lady_lily [WAY] [public post] mrsrev Contemplative Fire Retreat [public post] 11th October hermionesviolin National Coming Out Day (unpreached sermon, 2009) [public post] A note about WIGIT The mods would like to start a rolling rota on the weekly update post that gives ...