ECUMENICAL SOMETHING OR OTHER

I botched this one, it was a really obscure theology stub that came up a couple of weeks ago, and it was so unmemorable that I can't even find it now. It's got to be still in the browser history on my wife's computer, but I don't care to go back to it now.

But to summarize, it was about a certain group of people -- theologians and heads of different American Catholic and a few Protestant church leaders, who together agreed on a standard for what scripture would be part of the church program at a given year. This standard wasn't adopted by all churches, but it's a very common standard among catholic churches, and at least used as a guidline by many protestant churches. It's sort of a recipe book of 1 part old testament, a psalm or letter, then alternate years reading from one of the 4 main gospels, and one or two other things and that would be the whole service.

This was necessary to revise after the 2nd vatican council in the 60s, a reshuffling of what they were going to preach was required and that's what this council, over a period of years in the 70s, accomplished.

ARBOR LAKE: a well off characterless new suburb of Calgary

Calgary is in the midst of an economic boom, it being the capital city of the resource rich Canadian provice of Alberta. It may get cold, but there's skiing and that kind of thing. But all the folks moving in need a place to live, and Arbor Lake, on the northwestern outskirts of the city (bounded by highways with names that sound far more quaint than they are, Nose Hill Drive and Stony Trail), was founded in 1991 for this purpose. The median income was over $70,000 in 2000, not bad at all. A full quarter are immigrants -- from England, Poland, France and a few other places (Americans are #7 on the list I think).

To counter the bordom of suburban life some Arbor Lake young men (maybe a woman in there too somewhere) started an artistic /social collective, the Arbor Lake Sghool. While none of the works that I came across seemed at all thought provoking, it seems like a good idea. One thing that is certainly original is the word 'sgool', google it and you'll find the link at the top, the rest is random gibberish.