A lot of what he said will stick with me, but when he talked about discernment at General Assembly, he said you get to see the Holy Spirit in action, as the votes come in. That is the most mystical thing I've heard about an electronic voting system
Got to spend time with Rev Dr Derrick McQueen at St James PC Harlem. This is him and William Lloyd Imes (above)
I have not seen First Jamaica's session minutes from the 50s -- possibly they had a racist seating policy. Many such cases pcusa.org/news-storyte...
Baptized at First Jamaica -- although my shop has seen their registers and never found a baptismal entry for Donald lol -- Trump was more influenced by Norman Vincent Peale at Marble Collegiate PC, and the bogus power of positive thinking
Man there is enough actual racism inside mainline Protestantism that you don't need to make things up
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Further lol at Bristol hiring an intelligence firm to report to senior staff on... the students occupying the senior staff building
Just walk downstairs, you know, ask them about their day, are they hungry, things like that
Lol at Horus Global employees getting paid 8000 total pounds sterling over two years, to read posts online
You just love to see it
thebristolcable.org/2026/04/univ...
A group known as the Bristol Leftist Collective ran a campaign in early 2025 calling for Bristol’s students to boycott the app, which was developed by Ex Libris Group, an Israeli company headquartered in al-Maliha, Jerusalem.
On this April 20, we remember the guests from Chicago's Submarine Church, who spoke from the dais, and smoked from the dais on.soundcloud.com/xqj5hvVnSqOI...
That the Assembly and its moderator William Laws welcomed the Submarine Church was like a blinding light for Rev JT Douglas of St James PC Greensboro NC, who afaik did not have much constitutionally in common with the hippies pcusa.org/news-storyte...
On this April 20, we remember the guests from Chicago's Submarine Church, who spoke from the dais, and smoked from the dais on.soundcloud.com/xqj5hvVnSqOI...
Yes I did an Awful Coaching post for a college game in India 65 years ago
I'll find it again, but there was a 2017 compilation of studies that showed wide variation within manufacturers!
And an age ago LoC had a study that showed wide longevity variation within batches made on the same day
Ball handler has drawn the whole team, and that last defender is too close to the baseline to my eye, but he's already picked up his dribble! And his guys are ball-watching! Cut! Cut through the lane!
I don't really believe this, the range of failure of CDs and DVDs is so wide (six months to infinity), but I am willing to learn more
Big Cloud has played us for fools, long term storage was never meant to be on the Internet
Hoop! at Baring Union Christian College (Batala, Punjab) 1960s, from RG 500 box 14 folder 27
300-year archival gold CD? Heavens, I haven't seen one of those in 20 years
Thanks for this, my mission knowledge is very American-centered
Do you know is it the CMS that runs the American cemetery in Jerusalem still?
That's fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
To return the favour: this was my report on a meeting I attended in DC during my study leave in 2012- a snapshot of the PC(USA) divestment debate peterstudyleave.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/s...
(Unfortunately all the documents I used in this post got stripped out during a migration) but here's some of my own writing on 200 years of Presbyterian wishes toward Palestine pcusa.org/news-storyte...
There is lingering frustration that the Assembly action on divestment was never carried out, for sure
Coons is Presbyterian. The Confessions he espouses do not support arming Israel
Scrapbook, latest date 1962, with (by the smell) cellulose acetate sleeves that have now curled the contents
Decaying acetate sleeve and damaged but legible text block
I hate the plastic economy
Second in my series of pieces on ecumenical mission in the mid-century, on the Presbyterian Church in Iran pcusa.org/news-storyte...
AUB content with its understanding of liberal democratic principles, equality among the faculty,
And Hank Morgenthau Sr like the Kool-Aid Man: "great evidences of American idealism functioning in this remote and backward land, spreading civilization among people long submerged in ignorance"
You might be surprised how few images of the American University of Beirut the shop has. Here is AUB's West Hall, in an October 1921 newsletter
At one point I skimmed enough texts to write that Esselstyn, while stationed at Mashhad from 1911 to 1918, traveled with another Bible-man, Mirza Ali, as far as Russian Transcaspia and Afghanistan