Monday, October 25, 2004
Reading the Windsor report
So far, very interesting.
Went to the interfaith women's meeting. I gave the benediction. Sat next to Eric Mattheson, the new pastor at St. Matthew's Church.
The talk was by the director of WESPAC. It was alright. She went through the litany of problems in the US. And a few people got a little upset. One woman said "do you want to change America or create a new country." People were a bit confused. "I mean, its so depressing. What's going to happen." Another woman asked for statistics. And another said it depends on one's personal experience.
The director tried to speak thoelogically, but just sounded like a new-age prophetess.
Again, the problem with many radicals is that they don't know how to tell stories or speak the language of people who disagree with them.
The talk, especially was supposed to be on food politics, but it went everywhere.
today I've been reading on how scripture has been read and reread even within the old Testament.
And of course, property issues.
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Went to the interfaith women's meeting. I gave the benediction. Sat next to Eric Mattheson, the new pastor at St. Matthew's Church.
The talk was by the director of WESPAC. It was alright. She went through the litany of problems in the US. And a few people got a little upset. One woman said "do you want to change America or create a new country." People were a bit confused. "I mean, its so depressing. What's going to happen." Another woman asked for statistics. And another said it depends on one's personal experience.
The director tried to speak thoelogically, but just sounded like a new-age prophetess.
Again, the problem with many radicals is that they don't know how to tell stories or speak the language of people who disagree with them.
The talk, especially was supposed to be on food politics, but it went everywhere.
today I've been reading on how scripture has been read and reread even within the old Testament.
And of course, property issues.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Windsor Report Again
Windsor Report
The Windsor Report is out.
Here is an interesting analysis.
A clearinghouse for other stories.
I think the report was fairly tame. It was clearly a defeat for conservatives.
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Here is an interesting analysis.
A clearinghouse for other stories.
I think the report was fairly tame. It was clearly a defeat for conservatives.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Today
Found out that Robison will raise our cap for oil a few pennies. The vendor said he' never seen prices like this before. We're keeping the church cold, and I'm typing fast to keep my hands warm. We don't have heat, and we have a guest speaker today for the ECW.
Last night we decided to have our money dinner on Nov 14th. It will include a conversation about... money, a visioning process and a budget. We'll even have a couple small group discussions.
newsletter is going out today [cheers all around]. Trying to get this out monthly, but it is a challenge. The biggest pitfall is feeling as thought I'm forgetting something.
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Last night we decided to have our money dinner on Nov 14th. It will include a conversation about... money, a visioning process and a budget. We'll even have a couple small group discussions.
newsletter is going out today [cheers all around]. Trying to get this out monthly, but it is a challenge. The biggest pitfall is feeling as thought I'm forgetting something.
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Friday, October 01, 2004
Families
Yesterday was my sister's birthday. I periodically muse on our similarities and she asserts that our differences tip the scales in the other direction. Two people, same general environment, same gene pool and very different perspecitves, different choices. We both love music and movies and ridiculous humor, have similar gestures, voice tone and are able to mimic many things in the universe.
But about some specific things.... well, I live in New York and she lives in California. Enough said.
It was good to think about her and the two of us yesterday. And it would be good to apply it to my faith community. While the church is mini-community, the individual experiences of it's member can be very different and our assumptions can be as well. Is it any wonder we sometimes argue or nit-pick? Almost as often we can dig a little deeper and know that the very tasks that challenge some of us come naturally to others of us.
Diversity.... it can happen in sisters and in a faith community. Thanks be to God there are those @ St.Bart's who are walking palm pilots, remembering names and phone numbers.... just like my sister can! Or we'd all be wondering what what's-his-name said in front of the whatduyucall it at the meeting whenever.
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But about some specific things.... well, I live in New York and she lives in California. Enough said.
It was good to think about her and the two of us yesterday. And it would be good to apply it to my faith community. While the church is mini-community, the individual experiences of it's member can be very different and our assumptions can be as well. Is it any wonder we sometimes argue or nit-pick? Almost as often we can dig a little deeper and know that the very tasks that challenge some of us come naturally to others of us.
Diversity.... it can happen in sisters and in a faith community. Thanks be to God there are those @ St.Bart's who are walking palm pilots, remembering names and phone numbers.... just like my sister can! Or we'd all be wondering what what's-his-name said in front of the whatduyucall it at the meeting whenever.
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