Sundry.

I had a job interview yesterday (which went quite well, I thought) with a Episcopal church to be their administrator. I mention this primarily to relay this question I was asked: "So, Matthew, I see that you're a film critic. What did you think of The Passion of the Christ?" (They seemed pleased enough with my not-completely-positive answer, or at least with my defense of it.)

This is the third interview I've had at a church during my on-and-off searching for a different job, and it's always a little odd for me to not know where the congregation I'm interviewing with falls in the fundamentalist-to-Unitarian spectrum. (There are conservative churches in liberal denominations and, although more rarely, vice-versa.) In this case, though, I had a pretty good idea that this congregation was conservative-to-moderate (as I am), just because no ultraliberal church (and certainly some Episcopal churches are) would have this on their marquee: "BE AN ORGAN DONOR -- GIVE YOUR HEART TO JESUS." (That's one of the better of those pithy one-liners, I must admit.)

Also, one of the interviewers mentioned offhandedly that some of other candidates they'd interviewed didn't know what a liturgical year was. Um.

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Weather permitting, this is what we are doing tonight.

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And you thought Richmonders couldn't handle an inch of snow.

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Ed, thank you for your offer of scanning in 300-odd pages, but I have a better solution. I hope. We'll see.

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I am looking for a text that is (a) religious (specifically Christian; not specifically from the Bible), (b) not copyrighted (e.g. the NRSV would be a no-go), (c) could be set to music (without necessarily being poemic), and (d) has not been set to music two million times prior.