tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876613.post110528398970972263..comments2023-11-20T10:17:40.928+00:00Comments on Good in Parts: Change or decay?Kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171138485811816831noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876613.post-1105532757601109172005-01-12T12:25:00.000+00:002005-01-12T12:25:00.000+00:00Well, who cares whether he actually said it or not...Well, who cares whether he actually said it or not? All that indignation felt gooood. And there's so little opportunity for it in the church .... :-Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994175422557894178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876613.post-1105484152852250502005-01-11T22:55:00.000+00:002005-01-11T22:55:00.000+00:00Having had such wonderfully indignant reactions, I...Having had such wonderfully indignant reactions, I'm now of course wondering if Richard Giles actually said what I thought he said...Have had to return the book to its owner, but I was given "Creating Uncommon Worship" for Christmas so will see what his approach is there. But what really did interest me most was the way his words pushed my buttons...even if I did him an injustice, or misinterpreted every word he wrote...the situation is probably alarmingly close to that of people in our congregations at times.Kathrynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09171138485811816831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876613.post-1105481949658442562005-01-11T22:19:00.000+00:002005-01-11T22:19:00.000+00:00Gosh, that sounded a bit rabid. Sorry, it's gettin...Gosh, that sounded a bit rabid. Sorry, it's getting late.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994175422557894178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876613.post-1105481850760755082005-01-11T22:17:00.000+00:002005-01-11T22:17:00.000+00:00This kind of thing really makes me angry. I mean, ...This kind of thing really makes me angry. I mean, the kind of fascism that goes with some of the emergent church: that unless an expression of worship or liturgy is in contemporary idiom, it's not worthy of the Gospel. (Or something.) This is just so outrageously stupid that it wouldn't be worth commenting on, unless there were some quite prominent people seeming to lend credence to it. Yet in all sorts of other areas, old stuff is being 'discovered' as having some value: Benedictine chant for meditation, etc. It looks like another example of the Church throwing out its most precious possessions, just when the rest of the world begins to realise how precious they are. What we need in the Church, is more confidence that we have something of worth, and less lusting after the nakedness of Fraulein Zeitgeist.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994175422557894178noreply@blogger.com