Bob Longman's Web Page

ver.: 04 July 2005

Welcome! I hope you will find this page to be useful to you in getting at my many Web offerings. I have a radio show, on WUSB 90.1 FM Stony Brook NY, three Sundays out of 4. Check out the program's 1996 and 2001 list for the overall year (this will give you an idea what the program's most like, though it can't catch the whole flavor of the music played only once, the announcements, news and comedy.) Or catch WUSB's web cast, with my program three Sundays out of 4, 12:30-2:30 pm Eastern (New York) time. Here's some recent playlists from my current program. I am a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), which has a nifty official site. You can also find out who I am not.

Look for links to material on:

• my website on the Holy Spirit and Christian Spirituality, Spirithome.com (in its ninth year, and going at the rate of about 2500 visitors per day), 77,000 per month from Feb-May 2005;
• played-lists from the old Morning Star radio show, which ran 1983-1994, very early Sundays. It was way out in front in Christian format music for its day -- in some ways they're still catching up! Check it out and see.
• popular music. Most especially, I want to call your attention to Iona, Tonic Sol-Fa, Little Toby Walker, Brian Houston, Jan Krist, Jason Harrod, Carrie Newcomer, and Brooks Williams.
  Oh, did I say Take 6 ??
• I am also a fan of acappella music. Check out the CASA site for a look at the wide span of singers that "ain't got no band".
• God was on the charts long before Jesus Music came along (though I wonder if He liked it much). Check these out.
• my family tree (of special interest to Bonds, Kirtlands, Woolsons, and Hydes. too);
• a collection of very odd words : Qu-, Tw-, Gn-, Kn-, and others. Check 'em out and try 'em on.
• A proto-Germanic wordlist (my best semi-amateurish stab at it).
• articles on renewing the churches;
• Liturgical texts :
  • worship service for healing,
  • orders of confession 1 and 2, and
  • an order for commissioning lay ministers/ministries;
• charity/non-governmental organization items;
• some useful spiritual links,
• some definitions for spiritual or religious, or Christian words. There's also a set of pages for words about Scripture, especially if you're trying to understand what the Bible's role in Christianity is, or if you've been given the task of writing a statement of faith for a church or church body.
• my Personal Information Page. (If you're looking to find out about me as a background check for my writings, or for a possible job offer, look here.)

If the materials you find here help you or made your day, please pass the word to someone else who might like them. I need help to get the word out.

Also : a note on the Robert Longmans that I am not :

1. I was not the lead live broadcast engineer at the BBC for many years, who was instrumental in their live casts of Parliament sessions.
2. I was not the town smithy in Easington UK in the 1850s.
   Nor am I his probable ancestor who married a woman named Mary, who soon after his death married the son of the Rector of Easington, Thomas Mallory, in the 1650s.
3. I was not the Anglican minister of Placentia NF starting in 1759.
4. I did not live in Tingewick UK in the 1890s.
5. I was not the son (1785 - 1850) of William & Matilda Longman.
6. I did not marry a Jane Hodges in Corton-Denham, Somerset UK, whose son was Charles Longman (b. 1722). (Though I might be related to him.)
7. I am not the president of Central Surveys Inc.
8. I do not head the Australian Electoral Office.
9. I am not Group Technical Director at Plasmon.
10. I am not the Longman who is affiliated with Green Living Now.
11. I am not the antitrust legal counsel at Kasowitz, Benson LLP. That Robert is also an officer of a group that's done some good work with the world's needy women and children, Heartbeats Of the World.
12. I did not serve in the US Navy at sea on the USS Montrose in the Korean War.
    (However, I am the son of a Marine who served on land in battle during that war.)
13. I am not the one who raises show cats in Sussex UK.
14. I am not a staff lawyer for the Washington State legislature.
15. Guitarist Richard Durrant's record label was not named after me or my family.
16. I am not a leader in the Saskatchewan Miniature Horse Association.
17. That sure wasn't me who was a leading character played by Linus Roache in the British TV show Seaforth.
18. I did not publish scandal rags (newspaper/flyers) in New York in the 1900s. (Though I may be related to him.)
19. I was not the 1800s British thief (whose real name, as far as I can tell, was Phineas Henry).
20. So far as I can tell, I am not related to the Longman family that founded a major publishing company in the UK.
21. and, I most certainly, absolutely am not the one who, under the name Bob Longman, wrote the rated multiple "X" so-called 'underground classic' book titled 'The Debutante Whore'. (A few of you out there had the nerve to ask about that.)

My address is rlongmanone @ aol .com, if you want to get in touch with me.