tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post1449017058090099376..comments2024-03-27T08:46:54.369-04:00Comments on BabyBlueOnline: "Get rid of the virgin" and other ways to save your churchAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17490745238430648958noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-75047788482474906872007-10-13T10:44:00.000-04:002007-10-13T10:44:00.000-04:00You know, I like that George Harrison song, but I ...You know, I like that George Harrison song, but I would have thought that since it was about a Hindu deity that would keep it out of a Christian service. I mean Fr Jake said he couldnt think of anything like this...but he was talking about Buddahists<BR/>http://frjakestopstheworld.blogspot.com/2007/10/those-crazy-americans.htmlUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04987638071169525988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-4146736935117648772007-10-12T23:18:00.000-04:002007-10-12T23:18:00.000-04:00BB: "And this is written by a progressive - progre...BB: "And this is written by a progressive - progressing to what I'm not sure"<BR/><BR/>I so agree, and with many of the above comments. Being welcoming doesn't mean dumbing down -- when it comes to liturgy it means being accessible (i.e., clearly written bulletins and parishioners <I>who offer to assist</I>) and offering to God (and humankind) something that you're not going to get at your local nondenomegawhatsitsnamechurchkinda church.<BR/><BR/>Blessings, and thanks for the post -- as a good reminder of what I do <I>not</I> want in my church!Padre Waynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14464349177761679190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-19253838147474056112007-10-12T21:42:00.000-04:002007-10-12T21:42:00.000-04:00ummm...I know you don't title the music, but that'...ummm...<BR/><BR/>I know you don't title the music, but that's not Neil Young singing the last song -- that's Scott MacKenzie.<BR/><BR/>Here's Neil Young:<BR/><BR/>the tie-dye sails<BR/>Are the screamin' sheets<BR/>And the dusty trail<BR/>Leads to blood<BR/>in the streets<BR/>And the wooden ships<BR/>Are a hippie dream<BR/>Capsized in excess<BR/>If you know what I mean.<BR/><BR/>* * *<BR/><BR/>Another flower child<BR/>goes to seed<BR/>In an ether-filled<BR/>room of meat-hooks<BR/>It's so uglyVáclav Patrik Šulikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17776897108406930562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-41648944677660323942007-10-12T16:27:00.000-04:002007-10-12T16:27:00.000-04:00This person would be ready to take jewelry and mel...This person would be ready to take jewelry and melt it down to make an idol, if that seemed to be a good idea to get people in and out.<BR/><BR/>What a maroon! I am pretty "low church," but I do not want elements of worship to be so simple and so optional as to remove all the joy and mystery.Hiramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00845924600039905182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-45972200767431518672007-10-12T14:17:00.000-04:002007-10-12T14:17:00.000-04:00Karen, I agree with you about the Gloria. Our cong...Karen, <BR/><BR/>I agree with you about the Gloria. Our congregation really belts it out. I love it. <BR/><BR/>I especially love it when it comes back, after Lent, at the Easter Vigil service. We go from darkness and silence, to light, bells, and The Gloria! Its always much louder than usual, totally off key, and everyone has the biggest smiles on their faces as we laugh at ourselves and for joy that "Truly He is Risen" That is the moment when it starts to feel real. I think its the most beautiful bad singing of the year.peggy38https://www.blogger.com/profile/09658452777430041513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-30968133525498565232007-10-12T08:32:00.000-04:002007-10-12T08:32:00.000-04:00Not sure if we'll modify our two hour service ... ...Not sure if we'll modify our two hour service ... but my pastor took some of these suggestions to heart proposing:<BR/><BR/>"<I>I'm also thinking that there ought to be some moment during communion hymns when all of us smokers can raise flaming lighters and sway to the music...</I>"Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00261766465382455822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-15249830687253399372007-10-12T03:49:00.000-04:002007-10-12T03:49:00.000-04:00Amazing. Either that is incredible satire that ha...Amazing. Either that is incredible satire that has fooled us all . . . or the writer is incredibly clueless.<BR/><BR/>Most people who would bother to visit an Anglican church would FLEE from such a service.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-88158180247144766782007-10-11T23:54:00.000-04:002007-10-11T23:54:00.000-04:00If I didn't know better, I'd swear you're channeli...If I didn't know better, I'd swear you're channeling Chris Johnson.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-21835992767133187672007-10-11T19:40:00.000-04:002007-10-11T19:40:00.000-04:00There's an EXCELLENT discussion of this piece at D...There's an EXCELLENT discussion of this piece at Derek Olsen's blog Haligeworc.<BR/>http://haligweorc.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/liturgy-at-the-cafe/<BR/><BR/>And even the discussion at Episcopal Cafe is surprisingly good. It's encouraging to see that some progressives are standing up for the importance of liturgy to help us worship God, not to be pleasing visitors.<BR/><BR/>Of course we should be welcoming. It's just that destroying the Liturgy isn't the way to do it!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07776057299013988717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-15324676108691408242007-10-11T18:34:00.000-04:002007-10-11T18:34:00.000-04:00Oh my. There's just so much wrong packed in that o...Oh my. There's just so much wrong packed in that one post.mousestalkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07640977915382623244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-19066705962979125222007-10-11T18:27:00.000-04:002007-10-11T18:27:00.000-04:00Sounds like McChurch.Can I have fries with that?Se...Sounds like McChurch.<BR/><BR/>Can I have fries with that?<BR/><BR/><BR/>SelahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-55416078048646105552007-10-11T15:50:00.000-04:002007-10-11T15:50:00.000-04:00"I cringe whenever I see someone mucking about wit...<I>"I cringe whenever I see someone mucking about with the Liturgy,"</I> Said the Catbird through his gritted beak...<BR/><BR/>Would it not be easier to just toss up a Unitarian sign on the door, or would they sue TEC over defamation of character?Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03516444685469895837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-71376006887424537542007-10-11T15:47:00.000-04:002007-10-11T15:47:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03516444685469895837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-15438280313144516592007-10-11T14:29:00.000-04:002007-10-11T14:29:00.000-04:00And get caught up in all that "atonement theory" [...And get caught up in all that "atonement theory" [expletive deleted] or that "abstract plan of salvation"?? - I mean, totally yucky poo poo.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17490745238430648958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-82454830592970813672007-10-11T14:01:00.000-04:002007-10-11T14:01:00.000-04:00I still get chills every time we sing the Gloria a...I still get chills every time we sing the Gloria at Truro, it is such a majestic arrangement and the congregation just belts it out. It is what I FIRST think of when I think of worship at Truro.<BR/><BR/>This is just utterly sad. Make God and church into your own image.<BR/><BR/>I'm not a "liturgical purist" but there's a reason I'm still an Anglican. I've lost count of all the services I've attended at Baptist and Vineyard and Assemblies of God and non-denom. Mega churches, etc. (sometimes for years at a time when there was no possible Episcopal/Anglican option). And I've been blessed by all. But in the liturgy I'm reminded of God's transcendence and majesty and otherness in a more powerful way than any other church I've attended. The sense of mystery and holiness is tangible in good liturgical worship, it connects us to the "cloud of witnesses" -- there's a timelessness and a reminder that it's not about us, but about God.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07776057299013988717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-35062143271820250242007-10-11T13:36:00.000-04:002007-10-11T13:36:00.000-04:00Elegant! Descriptive, Accurate, Leveling. Krishna...<I>Elegant! Descriptive, Accurate, Leveling. Krishna Krishna!</I><BR/><BR/>bbAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17490745238430648958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-2243680222935028022007-10-11T12:45:00.000-04:002007-10-11T12:45:00.000-04:00I am dying to find out what the moronic moderates ...I am dying to find out what the moronic moderates are going to do about this kind of thing, now that there are no conservatives left to scream bloody murder.<BR/><BR/>--Nasty, Brutish and ShortAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com