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[Ann Markle]

As someone from a sacramental tradition, I'm really glad I took liturgy
from a Roman Catholic, not a Pentecostal (do they even have sacraments?).
On the other hand, I guess generic liturgy classes could also be sorted out
by denomination.  And I took a preaching class with a Pentecostal in the
class, and her way of preaching was so foreign, that I couldn't even offer
feedback.  Was she bad?  Or was she just faithful to her tradition?  It
sounded really, really bad to me, but I was in no position to have an
opinion.  On the other hand, a lot of my Yale Div School classes were
nondenominational, and I loved it.

Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 5:37 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Even better is an end to denominational seminaries.  You can certainly have
> classes on the polity stuff you think you ought to want to know, but a lot
> of great learning happens at a seminary that does not happen in a school
> run by one church just for its own kids.
>
> I had lots of friends who were from a fundamentalist background and hence
> we had conversations in our seminary you just could not even have the
> vaguest chance of having at a denominational-centered school.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 6/30/2015 2:11:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > jguthrie at pipeline.com writes:
> >
> >
> > I  think all TEC seminarians should attend a service in as many other
> > denominations as they can during their studies so as to both broaden
> their
> > horizons and to learn "What the competition is up to."  <g>>>>>
> >
> > But most of them have already "been there, done that."
> >
> > I don't know whether statistics have changed, but about the time
> > I came into the Church (1958) a large majority of seminarians
> > were said to be converts from another Christian denomination.
> >
> > I certainly experienced all sorts of worship styles in various
> > denominations before (and since) my confirmation in 1958.
> >
> >
> >
> > David Strang.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>