I have the official stuffed Death, Daniel, and Morpheus (oh, and Goldie). Still on the lookout for Delirium, but I doubt I'll ever find her.

The Endless as dolls

Delirium is perfect.

pray for me (sacrifice a goat, dance naked, whatever) as I gird my loins to go to the DMV to renew my license.

Vortex - when we met you didn't look 65+ or anywhere near... why do you have to renew in person?

In utterly random news, I am listening to the soundtrack to 1776, a musical I worked crew for umpteen years ago. My brain is in a happy place.

Huh. I guess I always assumed there was some central controlling Board of Directors for Baptist churches, or Presbyterian, or whatever. This does go a long way to explaining how my friend's Methodist church looks, walks, and quacks like a Baptist church without being Baptist, I guess.

Presbyterian and Methodist churches are not (typically, as far as I know) congregationally goverened. The Presbyterians have a Presbetery as a governing body, and the Methodists have Bishops.

There are plenty of non-denominational churches, and their governmental form can vary, but will sometimes be somewhat congregational (it sort of depends how the church got its start).

Churches that belong to a denomination or conference of some sort generally agree in principal with that body, and the association is often voluntary, so they remain affilated and will agree with denominational decisions, but they will also sometimes leave the denominations, or ignore them.

American Protestantism is very American.

In utterly random news, I am listening to the soundtrack to 1776, a musical I worked crew for umpteen years ago. My brain is in a happy place.

EM's family was close with the actor that played Ben Franklin in the movie version. I think he was in the stage version too.

::checks IMDB::

Howard Da Silva.

pray for me (sacrifice a goat, dance naked, whatever)

I will sacrifice a naked dancing goat. The DMV makes me cry.

I have now gotten sucked in to reading Wikipedia about religion, and it appears my parents' early exposure of me to Unitarianism really stuck a lot more than I'd thought.

I think he was in the stage version too.

My show was community theater, circa 1986. The soundtrack I'm listening to is the 1969 Broadway Cast. And according to ibdb.com, Howard Da Silva was part of that cast.

The Unitarians (at least in New England) grew out of the Congregational Church (which was long before the UCC existed). This is, of course, hysterical, because the first congregation churches in this country were the Puritan's churches. My church was founded in the 1640s. The town was founded by the church. Actually to incorporate a town then, you needed to have 11 men. 10 to tithe, one to preach. You built a church and got your town.

Interrupting during a brief break from work to announce:

The Single Cutest Matilda Picture In The History Of EVAR

That is all.