Sunday, January 02, 2011. I mostly ignored this blog in 2010. Sometimes it was the elephant in the room. I had a lot on my plate, both because of job searching and then starting a new career, and because of other, very fundamental, changes in my life. And I found myself not writing. Which makes the whole thing funny, when you think about it. Did you hear the crickets chirping? Tuesday, .

The Sermon that got me defrocked. The state of atheist blogging. Evan, at On the way to Ithaca. The blog of a Greek atheist, wrote an article on the state of atheist blogging. Evan says the work took in about four hours. I am grateful for the effort. Thank Evan! A week passe.

Meanwhile, back at the parsonage. Peacebang, bless her soul, wrote recently. About her understanding of the need for the clergy partner to meet a certain dress standard. In her observations she included a number of suggestions for how she thinks congregations ought to deal with errant partners who are just not making the grade on the appearance front. Seriously, folks, i.

Random firings from a cluttered mind high on the Chickasaw Bluffs. I Tremble with Shame in the Face of Their Bravery. If I am correct in this reading, we should not expect an imminent collapse of the regime. These young Iranians are not out in the streets seeking to topple the regime for they lack any military wherewithal to do so, and they are alien to any militant ideology that may push them in that direction.

Saturday, April 21, 2007. Other times so slowly it feels painful to our minds and bodies. What amazes me sometimes is how things change and yet stay the same as the clock ticks away. Too much, in fact to even try and write about in one post. This poem by Barbara Crooker. In love, running out of time.

I have a new post up at my new blog and I invite you to review it at Ugly Pies and Crooked Hats. Is it the life I dreamed of when I was your ages? Not hardly. But that life I dreamed of? It sparkled and shined and had hard edges I would have cut myself on. This life? And I .