August 2007

This weekend I went to Yorkshire, for Saturday evensong at York Minster, and for Sunday service at Saltaire United Reformed Church in a World Heritage Site.

In unrelated news, my friend Chris Goodall’s calculation “If it’s only greenhouse gas emissions you are worried about, then it may be better to drive than to walk” got picked up by the Times on Saturday, and in turn by Rocketboom on Monday. Chris is the parliamentary candidate for the Green Party of England and Wales in the constituency Oxford West and Abingdon.

South Bend Tribune:

Potential jurors in the murder trial of Randy Lee Reeder were reminded of their responsibilities on Friday.

In order to be fair as jurors, St. Joseph Superior Court Judge John M. Marnocha said, they must be able to set aside what they already may know of this case, which attracted “a lot of local media attention” earlier this year.

Yesterday’s paper:

Randy Lee Reeder, who was reportedly homeless at the time of the killings, was arrested in February after Daniel J. Sharp, 55, confessed to their involvement in the deaths of Michael “Shan” Nolen Jr., Michael Lawson, Brian Talboom and Jason Coates.

Previously:

• Confession in South Bend homeless murders
• Mass for Mike Lawson and three others
• Remembering Mike Lawson

As reported in this morning’s Tribune, the Unity Church of Peace is hosting an interfaith speaker series in August 2007, Sundays at 10am.

• August 5: Imam Mohammed Sirajuddin of the local Islamic Society
• August 12: David Cortright of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, former executive director of the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE)
• August 19: Deborah Dwyer, member of the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of South Bend
• August 26: Rabbi Eric Siroka, spiritual leader of Temple Beth-El in South Bend

More about the Unity Church, including their practice of not complaining for 21 days.