Apostate Café

Terrific video interview with Michael Bierut; topics range from Kubrick’s favorite font to the various cover designs of Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. There is a link below the video to a companion article from The Atlantic

So I am not a designer by training, and this is where my ignorance and outsider status come into embarrasing play… even though I’d seen interviews with him before, until reading the article I didn’t realize Beruit is one of the editors over at Design Observer, which is a source of all sorts of goodness. He talks about his book (which nobody bought me for Christmas) here.

Nod to Tara Tallman

Through a fortuitous and circuitous chain of events, I have learned that the Church of England has Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England available for download, free of charge, in PDF format. And for those who aren’t all up-ons with their Anglican lectionaries, Common Worship is an update of the Alternate Service Book of 1980, and is a companion of the CoE’s 1662 Book of Common Prayer.

Our home church (hX) has started using the Phos Hilaron (AKA O Respledent Light or Hail Gladdening Light) to start out our time of worship. Each week the light-bearer bringing in a lantern, offers reflection on a passage of scripture, and then we recite the Phos Hilaron in unison. (Reflection, get it? Bwah hah hah.) Anyway, next week it is Sunam’s and my turn to be the bearers of light, so I have been researching the Phos for the last few days.