Wednesday, July 22, 2015
What is Missed?
Anne Helen Petersen writes about "Missing Church, Not Religion". It's a book review, but I found it remarkable. A pull quote is hard, you need to read this thing whole. Please do so. After you have done that a few time you need to ask yourself some questions.
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- How could a person bifurcate church and religion in this fashion?
- Does that say something about how we "do" church?
- Or, does it say something about who we are in the church?
- She misses the "smells and bells," not so much the praise chorus and good times. What endures?
- Is the problem the smells and bells or is it how WE stripped them of meaning?
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