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Compass - ABC TV Religion | Stories Haven’t read it yet, but delighted to find it through A Dervish’s Du’a’.

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To make it into a trite joke,
Yes.
My co-worker Chris posed the question, it having been raised on a Unitarian Universalist discussion list. Here’s a quick stab at an answer using resources available to me at the office (which boils down to things on the web).
The current condition of the Religious Society of Friends is such [...]

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I’ve always wondered how to play Wink, which is a popular game among Young Friends (high school and college-age) in Philadelphia, and apparently also here in New England. Recently I’ve also come across references to UUs playing Wink. (I’ve also heard of periodic attempts to suppress or moderate Wink.)
And now I know.

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By Cornelia Funke. More flimsy boundaries between the real world and fiction, this time in juvenile literature. This fantasy is set in modern, 21st-century Europe, although there are heavy doses of medieval details and quirks. Translated from the German by Anthea Bell.

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Real Live Preacher has a great post on his blog about attending a denominational meeting. He comes to doubt the virtue of having “millions of people paying thousands of people to manage the doing of good things for Jesus.” He thinks “maybe I’d like to do just ONE good thing for Jesus. You know, just [...]

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By Jasper Fforde. Thursday Next back in action. In addition to the zaniness of the first book, this one includes some wild pairs of agents: Phodder and Canon; Chalk and Cheese; King and Nosmo. There’s the end of the world, wooly mammoth migrations, and a showdown with Goliath Corporation.

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by Diana Gabaldon. I think her very popular book series might be bodice-rippers, but there are no ripped bodices in this one (although there are a couple of discarded or open shirts!). Lord John is a supporting character in her other books, and this novel (first in a series) does spark my interest in her [...]

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By Jasper Fforde. A wonderfully cheeky first novel, set in the 1980s England of an alternate universe. Thursday Next is an agent in SpecOps 27, Literary Detection. Time travel, incredible inventions (but airships instead of airplanes), and a flimsy veil between “reality” and fiction.

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By Christopher Paolini. The first volume of a fantasy series. The author is still in his teens, and it shows a bit, but not in a bad way. It’s a very engaging start to a story about a likeable young man and his dragon.

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I’ve been negligent in posting finished books. I’ve been reading a lot of popular fiction, so it has been a lot over the last couple of weeks. Here they come.

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