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1) My hand partner and part-duration wannabe-Blessed Spirit has been accosting me for months to enroll a song I used to do called “A Ten hundred Pricks of Medium of vision.” David Kern has begged for it. And I ponder there was some protest on the part of Graeme Pitman as well. So, basically, that covers all the readers of this blog. So here: clickie-clickie.

2) Before One-Eighty last darkness, I was chatting with one of our deacons (and male parent of two girls in the youth cluster). He told me that some friends of his from the common possession have a son in One-Eighty. They weren’t assured what church it was. They declared it was the one “that all the unusual just started augmenting.” (Never inner man that our attendance has been slowly dropping over the last few months). At this, Bill (the deacon) related, “Let me ask you something. Is your son accommodating of gothic?” To which they replied, “YEAH!” Bill smiled and related, “He goes to First Presbyterian House of worship.”

I should note that the in one's teens man in question is by no method “of the goths.” He spends almost all of his duration playing Nature of Warcraft and talking about zombies. However, he has many friends that one undrilled in the nuances of minority culture might mark “of the goths.” ( “Drab,” “emo,” and “view” would be a bit more take to one's self…though still deficient.)

I love that Bill proximately assumed that since this brace’s son was “of the goths” he went to First Pres’s minority group…and assumed correctly…and assumed joyfully.

This signals a insinuating transition in the reflecting of our church. Not lengthy ago, an elder was approached by someone in our house of worship. This individual suggested that perhaps we should have some kind of dress digest for One-Eighty. The bear upon was not over the sometimes too-short shorts and other shameless dress of “Stipulation kids” (i.e. house of god kids), but over piercings, skulls, compact jeans and studded belts that designate the dress of our “Common possession kids.” The older respectfully explained to the concerned limb that perhaps that would send the inequitable message. “We don’t default these kids to think that they have to make different themselves in order top please God.” He or she (thankfully I don’t be sure of who it was) reluctantly agreed that a align code would not be solid.

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