The minister was interviewing a candidate for the organist job.
“Your resume says that you played organ for ten years, then stopped. Why did you decided to stop?” asked the minister.
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Academics
- Educated and Poor A university professor in Georgia writes about being, um, educated and poor.
- Forbidden Gospels April DeConick comments on non-canonical Christian scriptures.
- Megan Dowdell @ Tikkun Ethicist and feminist scholar-activist at the intersections of faith, race and health.
- Thinking, Learning, Teaching Teacher educator Joe Chee on educational theory.
- Useful Arts Law, copyright, and the Web.
- Warp, Weft, and Way “A group blog of Chinese and comparative philosophy.”
Books
- Asian American Books A nonprofit that publishes and sells books by Asian American authors.
- Children and Books Children’s librarian Abby Kingsbury on books and libraries (and cats).
- Indran Amirthanayagam's poetry A trilingual poet living abroad.
- KJV 100th anniversary news News about the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible.
- Will Shetterly Science fiction author and leftist.
Cultural creators
- City Mama Mom and entrepreneur raising kids in Silicon Valley.
- Digital Immigrant An “opinionated word tamer” and “27-year-old aesthete.”
- Heretic, Rebel, a Thing To Flout Liberal religion, dissent, labor, and leftist politics in the U.S.
- It Was Lost Blog collective: Poet and musician James, and a fashion illustrator, a mycologist, a Scot.
Cultural detritus
- Alley Oop Caveman comics.
- Altered Barbie News of the annual art show in SF.
- Daily Multi-pass Oz on movies, beer, food, sci-fi, and books.
- Letters to Myself Blog by the creator of “Tale of Plush C’thlhu.”
- Ollie Williams' Blog Sports that don’t make the sports pages.
- Order of the Stick Adventures of 6 PCs in DnD 3.5.
- xkcd Cartoon for geeks.
Cultural entrepreneurs
- Flowscapes Carol Steinfeld on ecological pollution prevention issues and more.
- Freelancer's Union blog Innovative social entrepreneurs based in NYC.
- Jam by the Spoonful Based in Oakland, Rebecca makes handmade jam.
- SSIR Blog Opinion blog of Stanford Social Innovation Review magazine.
- Wordpress Foundation 10% of the World-Wide Web runs on Wordpress, and it’s free. How cool is that?
Emergent / congregational change
- Alban Institute Roundtable Alban’s experts hold forth.
- Brian McLaren Evangelical Christian minister promoting radical congregational change.
- Ten Minutes or Less Church consultant Mike Durall with ideas for change.
- UU Growth Consultant Peter Bowden on growing Unitarian Universalist congregations.
It's easy being green
- Bay Area Hiker HIking in open spaces around the Bay Area.
- Better Rail Travel Advocates for more passenger rail in U.S.
- Fish Island Ah, those were the days.
- Invasive Species Weblog News of invasive species from a biologist.
Music
- Berkeley Sacred Harp Blog Weekly singing in the Bay area.
- Henry Mollicone Composer of opera and liturgical music in the Bay area.
- Now shall my inward joys… My Sacred Harp blog.
- Renewable Music Composer Daniel Wolf on new music.
Politics and news
- BBC News British Broadcasting Corporation news site.
- Investing in Kids An economist writes about early childhood education.
- Mark Mardell on the U.S. BBC correspondent Mark Mardell blogging on U.S. politics.
- Our Bodies, Our Blog Boston Women’s Health Collective blog.
- Too Much Online weekly about excess and inequality.
Religious education
- Brain Matters Recent REA conference on neuroscience and religious education.
- Notes from the Director Ideas from the top Unitarian Universalist youth director in the U.S.
- Phil's Little Blog Phil Lund on religious education.
- Religious Education Association Professional organization for practitioners and researchers in the field.
- Religious Education in Palo Alto About religious education, from the UU Church of Palo Alto.
Religious left
- Boy in the Bands Rev. Scott Wells on Universalism and liberal Christianity.
- Century Blog Blog network of The Christian Century magazine.
- Dirt Worship Starhawk’s blog.
- Faces in the Mirror Rabbi Michael, an old friend.
- Irreducible Complexity An atheist studies the Bible, and more.
- Islamicate Liberal Muslim blogger. Primarily a news feed.
- Ordinary Days Rev. Christana Wille McKnight finds spirituality in ordinary things.
- Quaker Theology Online journal.
- Rose Garden Yoga Elizabeth Goodman, yoga teacher and philosopher.
- Sermons in Stones Rev. Amy Zucker Morgenstern, senior minister at UU Church of Palo Alto.
- UUpdates Unitarian Universalist blog aggregator.
- Wild Hunt Mostly news and analysis relating to Neo-Paganism.
Sf
- Fluf the Plush C'thulhu A plush Cthulhu puppet addresses his minions.
- Locus Trade magazine for the sf field.
- Mundane SF Manifestos on writing sf without relying on non-scientific garbage.
Vote Elder God Party in 2012!
I’ve only recently realized that this old joke can be repurposed from Judaism to Unitarianism:
A well-to-do Unitarian atheist sent his daughter to the best private school in town, which was run by the Episcopalians. Every day at dinner, he asked her what they’d studied that day. One day he asked, and her answer was, “We studied the Holy Trinity.” He angrily replied, “Listen here, young lady: There is only one god and we don’t believe in him!”