Easter: one small resurrection
We walked around Lake Lagunita this afternoon, after Easter services and lunch with John, Julie and Grace (as seen on Linda’s blog). This was a small, personal resurrection of sorts: after 17 years of jogging around Lagunita’s path two or three times a week, I returned today for a 30 minute walk after an absence […]
Amazing Grace
Our granddaughter, Grace, was baptized today at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. Our good friend, the Rev. David Perry presided, thanks to rector Rev. Mike Spillane. David and wife Ricki came down from Portland for the event, much to our joy. Picture shows (L to R) Greg Brown, Julie, John and Grace Getze, and Godfather Anthony […]
Golden Gate sunset
This photo was snapped from the 4th floor of the Bay School in the Presidio, where Linda and I attended a function for the Beatitudes Society. Christine Pelosi and Marcus Borg were the featured speakers…
Blogging (well, writing) then and now
Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903) wrote every day for fifty years. He created a ‘bookshelf’ of titles on cultural evolution according to Rodney Stark in his book Discovering God, and was the originator of the Ghost Theory of primitive religion ’spelled out and illustrated in massive detail.’
Spencer’s theory was eventually dismissed as ‘nonsense’ by scholars. […]
Evolution and morality
“The human moral sense turns out to be an organ of considerable complexity, with quirks that reflect its evolutionary history and its neurobiological foundations.” writes Stephen Pinker in the January 13 NYT Magazine. Pinker, one of the leading lights in the controversial field of evolutionary psychology, believes that morality, like some other human behavioral traits, […]
Martini Mass
New York City’s Church of the Ascension has a 6 PM Jazz Mass followed by a cocktail hour (and, yes, they serve Martinis). The combo has come to be known as the Martini Mass, and regularly draws more people than the parish center can hold. Linda was stunned to discover that Church of the Ascension […]
Precious Grace
We went to church early today (8:30), and then to a healing service conducted by our friend, the Rev. Frannie Hall-Kieschnick (who also preached today).
At the healing service, a man none of us knew said that his wife had just died, he was out of work and about to be evicted - his plight put […]
A green New Year, or else!
The Archbishop of Canterbury, theoretically my loftiest spiritual guide, has decreed that “God does not waste,” on YouTube, no less. Does St. Peter have to drag his recycling to the curb?
Time flies
At church this morning, many parishioners and their children took the opportunity to make Advent wreaths during a very nice brunch organized by Trinity’s foodies. As I looked on, it gave me pause to consider how fast time has flown this past year.
The most precise prognosis I’ve received (from UCSF physicians) gives me a 50% […]
Pope Innocent III action figure
Only a friend of David Perry would be unsurprised to receive a Pope Innocent III action figure in the mail. David and I frequently correspond on the subject of Pope Benedict XVI, and somehow David thought injecting Pope Innocent III into the conversation would be a good idea.
Innocent launched the 4th Crusade, and was responsible […]