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Comment on How Does God Work? by Francis Mostafavi

Francis Mostafavi — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:54:25 +0000

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Comment on Communion by Felica Pulkkinen

Felica Pulkkinen — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:01:21 +0000

I was reading something else about this on another blog. Interesting. Your linear perspective on it is diametrically opposed to what I read to begin with. I am still mulling over the various points of view, but I’m inclined to a great extent toward yours. And no matter, that’s what is so good about advanced democracy and the marketplace of ideas on-line.

Comment on Is “Religion” Useful? Is it Best? by Judith

Judith — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:58:02 +0000

This is from a few months ago, but I saw a link to it today…as if in rebuttal to the previous argument. Goes back to the idea of community that Anne and dvd commented on under the Spark post.
http://www.wondercafe.ca/features/why-i-go-church-most-time

Comment on Communion by Rosemary

Rosemary — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:38:33 +0000

Yeah, I was thinking of the foot-washing. My mind was boggled when I heard about that, but I’m also someone who doesn’t like having her feet touched and I once quietly snuck out of a meeting when they mentioned we were about to wash each other’s feet.

I wonder if you’d like the communal way we usually do it at our church, Rosemary. We all go up to the front and stand around the altar, so we’re standing in a sort of circle around the priest and the eucharist items. Then we go into line and take the eucharist. I am not always sure I like that we drink from the same cup, but it’s a neat communal thing, too. (Or sometimes two cups when more people are there.)

Comment on Communion by Judith

Judith — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:08:27 +0000

I’m not sure what you’re hoping for here, Rosemary, possibly my upbringing as a “foot-washing” Baptist? (Although I never knew that term as a descriptor until much later in life.) My church had communion only once a year. (Memorial Day weekend if I remember correctly. I wonder if it had any connection to that holiday? Never thought of that before.) It was held after the church service and was only open to members. Because of the foot-washing component, we lined up in chairs across from each other, men and women separate. I don’t remember being terribly moved by the spiritual significance of it because, as a teenager, there were much more important concerns like who you were sitting across from (a friend or an old lady?) and the pre-communion preparations like removing pantyhose. In later Baptist church experiences I got that message that Anne got–examine yourself and refrain if you need to. No instructions on what that actually meant. Communion is not central to my spiritual life and practice, but I like the communal (as in community) aspect of it. I told Anne in a previous conversation how much I loved communion time at one of my previous churches. There were four stations, but no rules about when and where to go, so people just got up and went whenever and wherever with some musical interlude. I always thought it looked like beautiful chaos. We had a friend at that church who later died of MS. I particularly remember another friend bringing the elements to him in his wheelchair–my most poingnant communion memory.

Comment on Christ Follower–Not Christian, Can it Be? by PUT ME IN A BOX » Blog Archive » Is “Religion” Useful? Is it Best?

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:36:09 +0000

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Comment on What do you think? by Anne

Anne — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:20:37 +0000

What a great article. Thanks for the link Sarah.

Comment on What do you think? by Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:30:28 +0000

Here is a very modern answer to that question: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129528196

Comment on Spark by DVD

DVD — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:04:37 +0000

wow, couldn’t agree more with Anne.