When we were preparing to move into our first home, we made a list of things we wanted to do to it. Big things and small things all went on The List, and it got long quickly. We got some of the projects done ( with help ) before we moved in–painting, installing a garage door opener, demolishing the kitchen floor and laying a new one. Unfortunately, that barely put a dent in The List. We told ourselves that we would quickly finish the other jobs after the move, but between unpacking and finis
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10 Home Projects We Still Haven’t Gotten Around To
BY MICHAEL PASQUIER Two recent publications—Vincent Brown’s The R eaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (HUP 2008) and Amy Louise Wood’s Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 (UNCP 2009)—pay close attention to the relationship between death and religion in the history of the Americas. Taking a cue from anthropologist Katherine Verdery’s claim that “Death is the quintessential cosmic issue,” Brown shows in terrible detail how death dictated life for Africans of Jamaica, the island at the heart of British colonial slavery during the seventeenth century.
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Where There Is Death, There Is Religion
This week I presented two seminars at the NACBA National Conference, the first of which was explaining how to use financial reporting as part of an overall strategy for communicating vision among measured outcomes. Here’s the workshop description: “Financial reports are the cornerstone for understanding the fiscal health of any church. Financial reports are generated every day by thousands of church administrators across the country, but too often financial reports never get beyond the basics o
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Going Beyond the Numbers at NACBA ’09
NEW SHARON – Get ready for some old-fashioned family fun.On Saturday, the annual Family Fun Day, aimed at the residents rather than tourists, will focus on the local talent, activities for the kids and the merchants of New Sharon.In its fourth year, the festival grows out of the Freedom Festival which featured, among other things, a parade down Route 2.“Nowadays you can’t ride your ponies down Route 2 anymore,” organizer Juniper Thompson said with a laugh. “This is for people wanting some of th
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Family Fun Day Saturday in New Sharon
Most of you probably remember that my husband is the youth minister at our church. We try to be as family oriented in our activities as possible, making sure there is at least one family event per month. This month’s event was planned by a very neat family that used to homeschool and love the outdoors. We went seining in the creek on our church’s farm! (Seining for sport is actually not legal in Kentucky, but fear not, we were only seining for educational purposes. All the “catches” were p
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Seining – A Family Event at Church
Wallis Knights of Columbus 4th Degree officers installed on July 20 by District Master Joe Morino are front row, left to right, Lupe Luna, Frankie Orsak, District Marshal Frank Larh, Lefty Hanzelka, DM Morino, John Baros, Willie Hajdik; back row, Adolph Bellinoski, Robert Schipa, David Pavlock, Garry Kuciemba, Leslie Jez and Tom Baranowski. On Monday night, July 20, Lefty Hanzelka took the oath of office for the Wallis Knights of Columbus 4th Degree Assembly as Faithful Navigator. In an impr
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Hanzelka named as Faithful Navigator of 4th Degree
Exhibit Dates: August 1 – 30, 2009Meet the Artist Reception: Friday, August 7, 5 – 8pm All Welcome!Home Fine Art Gallery: 2 Church Street (& White Street), Mount Holly, NJ 08060Home Fine Art Gallery exhibits work by new member Lydia Hamilton Brown for the month of August. A graduate of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art, Hamilton Brown is a process artist. She takes a single image and manipulates it over and over until it results in a large scale painting. Each image becomes as importa
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Lydia Hamilton Brown exhibit at Home Fine Gallery
This interesting piece of history has been unearthed by Smygo : Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson: “There was private money long before there was government money. The first revolutionary (or reformist) use of this idea, as a check against galloping usury and high interest rates, was the foundation of “Banks of Piety” by the Dominican order of the Catholic Church in the late middle ages. (See Tawney, _Religion and the Rise of Capitalism_.) The Dominicans, having discovered that preac
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Dominicans and their Banks of Piety
” width=”244″ height=”300″ /> Thanks, Leslie, for sending me this link earlier this week about Target’s new price-match policy. I have confirmed that the Cleveland Target is indeed price-matching. Just be sure to read the policy . You must bring in a current local ad and the policy states price-adjustments will only be done at customer service, not in a check-out lane. ” width=”300″ height=”169″ /> Thanks, Fun and Frugal reader, Summer, for sending me a copy of this email she
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Retail News: Target is now Price-Matching; Dollar General does not accept Internet Printables
Judge rejects polygamous church trust settlement SALT LAKE CITY — A judge on Wednesday rejected a proposed settlement that would have returned control of a state-managed land trust to followers of jailed polygamous leader Warren Jeffs. The United Effort Plan Trust was formed in 1942 to hold the collective assets of faithful members of the Fundamentalist Church
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Utah judge rejects deal aimed at returning control of trust to followers of polygamous leader
This week Miss Attitude received the following e-mail from a friend and loyal blog reader in need of fashion advice: Need your fashionista/recessionista advice! My husband’s high school reunion is coming up in October in New York, and I have no idea what to wear. The last time I needed a dress for a friend’s wedding, someone suggested Ann Taylor. I wanted something more unique than an Ann Taylor dress but I ran out of time and ended up going with a cute dress I got on sale at AT Loft.
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Fashionista/recessionista to the rescue!
How You Can Ensure Kids Across The Country Have School Supplies Article by: Angela King, Busy Mom Contributor It’s that time of year again and you literally see the signs in stores across the country: back to school. Aisle after aisle of supply displays that highlight the colorful notebooks, pocket folders, glue sticks and pink erasers that children everywhere tote with them on that first day of school.
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How You Can Ensure Kids Across The Country Have School Supplies
When it comes to same-sex couples living together, with (or without) sex, New England has a reputation for being just a little bit more innovative than the rest of the country. Not for nothing was such an arrangement in the 19th century termed a “Boston marriage.” Now, as Boston Globe reporter Michael Paulson writes, Episcopal bishops in New England find themselves in the fascinating situation of having the denomination’s tacit O.K. to gay blessings — but not having its permission to allow their clergy to officiate at gay marriages (yet)
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Bishops consider divines disobedience
Recently here, I reported how moved I once was by the words of Latin Mass priest in Ireland who regretted a contemporary tendency in the Church to de-emphasise the need for the Sacrament of Confession. His point was that people who availed themselves less often of this Sacrament, availed themselves less of the “Sanctifying Grace” which it offered.Again, what I admired was that this was a case where the supernatural reality of the Sacraments was taken absolutely seriously. And it seems to me that
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Materialism, Truth and the Catholic Mystery
Guardian:-Communion wine is not being offered in some churches amid fears over swine flu.Some church leaders have made the decision just to distribute bread rather than offering the chalice to the congregation during Holy Communion services.The Archdiocese of Liverpool, which represents the Catholic church in Liverpool, said yesterday that some churches had taken the precaution but added that it was a decision made by individual churches, following its guidance, and they had not told churches wh
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Churches stop offering communion wine to halt spread of swine flu
As a preacher it is important to know the big shape of the book you are preaching. It is also important to communicate it. Too many Christians see the books of the Bible as a random assortment of random chunks. Our preaching should not exacerbate that lack of macro awareness. While preaching a passage it is helpful for our listeners to hear how this piece fits in the whole message of the book. We won’t agree on every attempt to “macro frame” a Bible book, but we should agree that people need to recognize the unity and flow of the books. The first three chapters of Ephesians describe the calling of believers as church – a body united in Christ Jesus. Then from 4:1 on the book is concerned with the conduct of believers as church – a body living out its unity in Christ Jesus. Calling: Conduct. Overly simplistic? Maybe, but better than only having random details or a couple of favorite verses.
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Macro Framing
Posted on July 22nd, 2009Author: Bridging the Gap, Henry Funtecha, ◙ The News Today Janiuay is one of the municipalities of the province of Iloilo. It is an interior town about a thirty-minute jeepney ride distance from Iloilo City and is located on plain land by the southeast and on partly hilly land by the northwest. It is bounded by three other municipalities: Maasin in the south, Lambunao in the north and Mina in the east.The town was formerly called Matagup and was just initially a visita
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Looking back at some grand old structures in Janiuay, Iloilo
This Saturday is the deadline for the presentation of signatures to the Washington Secretary of State so as to put on the ballot a proposition to reverse the state legislature’s vote for Domestic Partnership enhancement. If enough signatures are not collected, the bill will become law, granting to Washington’s gay couples virtually all of the rights, privileges and responsibilities of marriage. To reach the ballot, Referendum 71 will need 120,577 valid signatures and should turn it at least
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Washington’s Referendum 71 Deadline
Posted by Jonathan ZasloffRepublican House Whip Eric Cantor, who is thinking about running about for President (and is Jewish) decided to suck up to the Christian right by telling an evangelical group that US foreign policy needs to be “firmly grounded” in “Judeo-Christian principles.”The quickest response to this obviously artifical construct is the retort of Barney Frank: “I’ll finally understand what a Judeo-Christian is when I meet one.”The notion of a “Christian Zionist” is not as artific
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Truth in Labeling Department: Christian Anti-Zionists
Instead of a vacation to Mediterranean beaches this summer, Olive Tree developers are taking an intellectual vacation to the Eastern Mediterranean, the ancient home of Hebrew and Greek, the original languages of the Bible. Academics, lay people, and clergy alike have benefited from the convenience and affordability of Olive Tree’s original Greek and Hebrew products for Palm and Windows Mobile, which brought parsing, morphology, and dictionary products to the mobile platform. Now our developers a
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A Different Kind of Summer Vacation
One of my favourite historical figures is the early church father, Polycarp, a disciple of the apostle John. His life and letters are inspiring and provide a lot of insight into the beliefs and practices of the generation that immediately followed the original apostles. His death, too, is a testimony of God’s grace given at the moment of need. Here is a video that I happened upon this afternoon that I thought that you might enjoy that tells the story of his martyrdom and his inextinguishable f
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The inextinguishable witness of Polycarp
Comprehensive Plan Includes: Privatization of ABC with Revenue Dedicated to Transportation; Expand 70mph Speed Limit to Interstate Sections Statewide; Utilize Port Revenue and Dedicate Percentage of New Growth Revenue to Transportation; External Audit of VDOT; Allow Northern Virginia to Retain Portion of Sales Tax Revenue for Roads ARLINGTON- Standing on the top level of a parking deck overlooking Interstate 66, Bob McDonnell, Republican gubernatorial nominee and former Attorney General of
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McDonnell’s transporation plan unveiled: “End Gridlock, Create Jobs: Get Virginia Moving Again”
Culture Monster Subscribe All the Arts, All the Time –> Quick links: ART ARCHITECTURE CLASSICAL MUSIC THEATER DANCE OPERA Subscribe: RSS « Music review: ‘Porgy and Bess’ at the Hollywood Bowl Main Liza Minnelli at Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre Start spreading the news: Liza Minnelli made an appearance last night in Ventura. We’re not quite sure how she found it – we had no idea people who hang out in New York most of the time had even heard of the coastal cit
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Liza Minnelli at Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre with Billy Stritch
Hey Everybody, I’m out at the National Worship Leader Conference in KS this week doing some blogging, twittering, and teaching. If you’d like to follow a live stream of all the discussions, pictures, videos, and elements of the event, checkout the live feed at TheWorshipCommunity.Com . For all those attending or discussing the event, use Twitter and the #nwlc09 hashtag. This will be an extra special week for me because I’m enjoying with one of the most passionate worshipers on the plan
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National Worship Leader Conference, Tuesday AM #nwlc09
It is true that an increasing number of gay teens are coming out than was the case a couple decades ago. A majority of gay males still tend to wait until they move from home to attend college or even later before becoming courageous enough to share that important part of their identity with friends and family. In fact, a large portion of gay men never come out to one of both of their parents, something that is frequently an issue of great regret after a parent’s passing. Parents never sign
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Is Your Gay Son Enduring High School?
Saturday we attended a long planned, super secret, surprise birthday party for my old friend Donna Church in our former community of Copper Center, Alaska. We had a wonderful time renewing friendships, catching up on news and eating authentic home made pot-luck food. Our visit brought back many memories of raising our children and working in this wilderness neighborhood during the late 1970’s through early 1990’s. What we miss most, besides the use of the resident fish wheel, are the people.
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Surprise Party Copper Center, Alaska
The UK is a prime destination for tour groups – both domestically and for international travellers. London and the UK have a rich history that has enchanted residents and tourists alike for generations. Some of the most popular destinations for travellers include in London, Birmingham, Manchester, and throughout the UK include: Trafalgar Square – Trafalgar Square is one of the most famous squares in the world. It features Nelson’s Column, honouring Admiral Nelson’s defeat of the Spanish Arm
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Travelling as a Group in the UK and London