Advent Day 8: In The Bed of a Pickup
Something to consider from poet John Blase…
Probably wise
to remind ourselves
that first Advent
wasn’t anticipation wrapped
in sherpa slippers -n- hot cocoa.
It was a high stakes… Read More
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Shouting About Beautiful Art
Sundays are for sharing and shouting – that’s the point of these shout-outs – I want to share what I found to be particularly fascinating, beautiful, and shout-worthy online this past week…
1. This Song: Empty Me Out by Liz Vice.
2. This post: The Sanitized Stories We Tell by Sarah Bessey. Here’s my favorite line(s): “I feel like we give out gold stars to people who get over things quickly. And like any former evangelical over-achiever I wanted my gold star.
We want people to heal on a timeline. Yes, yes, that’s terrible but aren’t you over it yet?
It makes me wonder how… Read More
Read. Listen. Watch. I Think You’ll Enjoy.
Each week on Sunday Shout Outs, I like to share the best bits of what I watched or read online recently. There’s no theme or common thread between these posts, but they are all thought-provoking and enjoyable.
This video, “Shake The Dust” by poet Anis Mojgani. His first line prolly had you a little worried…
This post, “Actually, Scratch That” by John Blase. Here’s my favorite part: “The timeline’s different for each of us, but at some point you have to stop fighting your parents or religion or 1950s America or your no-good-son-of-a-bitch-ex-spouse or quite possibly even… Read More
Shareable
Here’s what I read online this week that, my opinion, is shareable…
This wonderfully satirical post, “When Suits Become A Stumbling Block: A Plea To My Brothers In Christ,” by L.P.
This short, beautifully poetic, and… Read More
When Church Jumps The Shark
Sometimes church jumps the shark.
What’s that mean?
From Wikipedia:
“Jumping the shark is an idiom created by Jon Hein that was used to describe the moment in the evolution of a television show when it begins a decline in quality, which is usually a particular scene, episode, or aspect of a show in which the writers use some type of ‘gimmick’ in an attempt to keep viewers’ interest. Its name is taken from a scene from a fifth season episode of the sit-com Happy Days when the character Fonzie jumps over a shark on water-skis.”
Related to church, I want focus on this aspect of jumping the shark…
“Using some type of gimmick in an attempt to keep viewers’ interest.”
I started thinking about this last week when I read a post by John Blase about his attempts to energize the small country church he pastored right after graduating from seminary. Here’s a quote from that post… Read More