Sounds like my crowd… What is confusing is why anyone would want a different gang? Read more
Sounds like my crowd… What is confusing is why anyone would want a different gang? Read more
Today as any fan can tell you is the birthday of Rex Stout, and therefore of Nero Wolfe. I got through the tail end of my undergraduate experience in my late thirties, and the beginning of my seminary days thanks in good part to Mr Stout’s tales of Nero Wolfe, Archie and the gang in that brownstone in a timeless New York. Well, the clock worked for everyone but Nero, Archie and associates who from the depression into the nineteen... Read more
Shirley Chisholm would have been eighty-five today. I think she would have loved last year’s election, particularly the primary, having lots of problems picking her candidate… Read more
ARJUNA’S DILEMMA A Reflection on Killing, the Spiritual Life and the Quest for Meaning 29 November 2009 James Ishmael Ford First Unitarian ChurchProvidence, Rhode Island Text Kishna, the great Lord of Yoga,revealed to Arjuna his majestic,transcendent, limitless form. With innumerable mouths and eyes,faces too marvelous to stare at,dazzling ornaments, innumerableweapons uplifted, flaming – Crowned with fire, wrappedin pure light, with celestial fragrance,he stood forth as the infiniteGod, composed of all wonders. If a thousand suns were to riseand stand in... Read more
On this day in 1965 Arlo Guthrie was convicted of littering… ‘Twas an early example for me of how weird karma actually is… Read more
William Blake 28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827 Read more
Will Shetterly posted this picture he found on the web. I’m hoping it was photoshopped. I fear it is not… Will titled it “How Class War Works.” I’m not positive, although that certainly is part of it… I’m sure the casual cruelty of children also plays into it. And this astonishing human ability to separate ourselves from others, to not see how deeply we are in fact connected, to miss that when one of us is hungry, the world cries... Read more
On this day in the Western Church’s calendar and for those of the Eastern Church who follow the revised Julian calendar, this is the feast of Sts Barlaam and Josaphat. (Those stubborn Easterns who continue to use the Julian calendar observe the feast on 26th of August.) This is my favorite Christian holiday. Sadly, this feast isn’t observed in the West, anymore. And I suspect it isn’t celebrated by many in the East, either. The story of the prince Josaphat... Read more
I just sent the following letter to our Congressman, Representative Patrick Kennedy, copying it to the Providence Journal. I would like to add, if you live in the greater Providence area and are looking for a church home, please feel free to investigate whether we might be that best place for you to grow deep and from which to engage the world with mercy and in quest of justice. 26 November 2009 The Reverend James Ishmael Ford First Unitarian Church... Read more
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