An Unreasonable Enthusiast
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Showing posts tagged worship
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Blessed are the uncool
“I want a church that includes fussy kids, old liturgy, bad sound, weird congregants, and…brace yourself…painfully amateur “special music” now and then.
Why?
Well, for one thing, when the gospel story is accompanied by a fog machine and light show, I always get this creeped-out feeling like someone’s trying to sell me something. It’s as though we’re all compensating for the fact that Christianity’s not good enough to stand on its own so we’re adding snacks.
But more importantly, I want to be part of an un-cool church because I want to be part of a community that shares the reputation of Jesus, and like it or not, Jesus’ favorite people in the world were not cool.”
Likes
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Into the woods
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The Walters Art Museum, W.182, detail of f. 56v. Prayer book, Dutch; Flemish...
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SCALE, the evening performance. In a room under the Union bar (note disruption partway through).
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Gay acceptance
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What an insanely horrible use of resources.
May God have...
