Tuesday, April 29, 2014

A Colleague Tilts At Windmills

CNN: If the Rev. John DeBonville could preach a sermon to lift the souls of churchgoers across America, his message would be simple: 

Stop dressing so tacky for church.

Yeah, good luck with that, John.

Fortunately, this is a problem I don't have with my congregation; they always look spiffy.

Many years ago, in West Hartford Center, with a popular coffee chain just around the corner from the church, I did used to have some folks who would bring cups in with them for services.  Asking people not to bring them in the church was a request that went unheeded.  I actually went so far as to have the ushers hand out those clip-on cup holders for cars rather than deal with spilled coffee on the pews, prayer books, hymnals, and other parishioners.