Wikipedia article on my hometown

I looked up my hometown on Wikipedia this morning:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogersville,_Missouri

Under the heading "Children", this is what someone had to say about the town:

"Rogersville is home to many intelligent and forward-thinking children of all ages. They love Wikipedia. They don't love Rogersville. They feel trapped. They are high."

Funny, but true!
RCB

Religion and Halloween

I took Wesley trick-or-treating last night in our neighborhood. At one house, the woman didn't hand out candy but instead put in a fundamentalist tract entitled "Eternal Life is a Free Gift". It reminded me of an incident that happened several years back when Carrie and I lived in Roanoke, Virginia.

We had gone to the movies to see "The Last Temptation of Christ", which had been stirring up a bunch of controversy there (as I'm sure it did in Memphis). There were churches protesting outside, and as we entered, a man handed Carrie a gospel tract. She promptly said thank you, opened her purse, and handed the man a card with the UU principles on it that she'd picked up at church. The man was absolutely dumbstruck! He had been so accustomed to having the communication of his faith be a one-way conversation that he had no idea of how to respond to someone ready to turn it into a dialogue.

I think I'm going to order a stack of those cards and have them at my door whenever missionaries ring the bell. A little reverse prosletyzing might be good for Jackson....

See you Sunday!
Ross

Music for Sunday Nov. 5

Hey everybody,

We'll have choir practice again this Sunday at 9:45 after a week's hiatus.
For the offertory anthem, we'll sing "Dream a Dream". We'll make another go
at the "Unitarian chant" postlude. For the prelude, I'd like to do #357
from the hymnal, "Bright Morning Stars". I think it's familiar to most of
you, but I'll post MIDI files of the hymn on the website in case you want to
listen to it.

See you Sunday! - Ross