Today is the feast of Feronia… Read more

There are several marker points where one can speak of when Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Today in 1990 is one of them. He’d already formulated the ideas, but on this fateful day at the beginning of the last decade of the twentieth century, with his collaborator Robert Cailliau, he published the formal proposal that laid it all out. Pretty much the whole thing would be up and running within a year. I love the fact that Berners-Lee... Read more

I notice that in the Lutheran church today is the feast of the I just can’t quite say saint Soren Kierkegaard. Truthfully I just love the layers of irony contained in that simple fact of his having a feast day in the Lutheran church… And I recall my fervent youth and how important he was to me while first trying to find my way. God, he was important. Bless the noble heart, and the fierce quest, and very much, thank... Read more

This past Sunday early in the service I asked those who had served in the military to stand. In our now long pacifist leaning denomination there weren’t all that many. Out of two hundred, forty or so, maybe thirty stood. Without my bidding the congregation applauded. For quite a while… Later a note was passed to me from someone who objected to our celebration of the military. To be fair the writer wasn’t just annoyed with this, but also with... Read more

Born on this day in 1801 to a prosperous Boston family, Samuel Gridley Howe, graduated from Harvard Medical School. Immediately upon graduation along with so many other young idealists of his generation he traveled to Greece and threw himself into their revolution. Later he continued his medical training in Paris where he also embroiled himself in the July Revolution. Returning home he cast about for a way to make his mark in history. Howe found it when he was recruited... Read more

Dylan Thomas died on this day in 1953. Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Though wise men at their end know dark is right,Because their words had forked no lightning theyDo not go gentle into that good night.Good men, the last wave by, crying how brightTheir frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Wild men... Read more

I know a few friends who after a lovely burst of excitement with the election are now feeling oddly dejected. I suspect the Onion explains all in an article titled “Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job.”African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation’s broken-down... Read more

In my youth there were two Catholic Christians who particularly influenced me. The first of these was Thomas Merton. The second was Dorothy Day. Dorothy was, like her father, a journalist, who during the first world war also trained as a nurse. She had twin passions, radical politics and a spiritual journey that led her from her Episcopalian childhood through a romance with atheism back to Christianity and finally with the birth of her daughter, a fervent embrace of Catholicism.... Read more

Good advice from people I admire… For more go to Avaaz… And, once again, thank you, Danny! Read more

Seems time to revisit an iconic image from the election… Life is good… Read more