[Magdalen] Whoops. We've got the Southern slavers' battle flag in the Nat...

Roger Stokes roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
Wed Jul 1 21:50:41 UTC 2015


On 01/07/2015 22:28, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> Interestingly, Martin was in a class with me at Howard University Divinity school in 1987. I think he was probably working on a doctorate. At the time I didn't know anything about him, but that class must have been a sore trial for him! It was a class on worship, taught by one of the best teachers and preachers I've ever had--Kortright Davis, an Anglican priest from Barbados.
> The class was basically an intro to worship from a Protestant perspective, and I took it because Davis was teaching it. There's see that the two German students were wondering what on earth  were six of us in the class: two of us from VTS, Martin, a German evangelical pastor, a pastor from East Germany, and one other student.
>
> The class began on the day after the Super Bowl, and Davis walked in and started diagramming plays on the Board, explaining that football was a great example of liturgy! I could see by the looks on their faces that the German pastors were wondering what on earth they had gotten themselves into! Martin had one of those inscrutable faces, and I had no idea what he was thinking. I do remember noting that he never smiled.

There is more than grain of truth in that.  A football play seems to be 
about getting people in the right position for the next action, just as 
should happen in good liturgy - though hopefully without anybody getting 
sacked!

The other thing about that group was I wonder how the two Germans got on 
as this before the protests that started the demolition of the Berlin 
Wall and the collapse of the Warsaw Pact.

Roger


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