[Magdalen] Coffee Anyone?

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Garrison Keiller wrote that on days when it's a hundred degrees and ninety
per cent humidity, Episcopalians will still have their coffee.

Although I got the impression he was a Lutheran, he is apparently an
Episcopalian, so it's legal for him to make fun...

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 Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> the coffee break = liturgy of the table??
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> From: "Cantor03--- via Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 3:47 PM
> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
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> Subject: [Magdalen] Coffee Anyone?
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> Lutheran Stuff:
>>
>> My Cousin Connie, essentially raised as a sister, confided in me that
>> her oldest son (named after me) and his wife have recently  transferred
>> membership from an ELCA parish to a large CLB (Church of the Lutheran
>> Brethren) church in the city.
>>
>> On the one hand I'm concerned because the CLB is quite unlike other
>> Lutheran groups in that it is essentially an evangelical  denomination. It
>> has a free-form liturgy of the type one would expect in a megachurch,
>> and traces its origin to the Pietistic Movement in  Scandinavia.
>>
>> I am not enamored by what we call in the USA "Evangelicals".
>>
>> My cousin visited the church with son and wife recently, and I was curious
>> about her experience.  The church has three services on  Sunday morning.
>> The first, which she attended, was rather straight forward with  hymns,
>> prayers, and a sermon.  The other two she described as  "contemporary"
>> and "Supercontemporary".  The latter is so free-form that Connie's
>> teenagers
>> consider the worship style over the top.
>>
>> The service Connie attended began with the singing of several  hymns
>> accompanied by the piano and played by yet another of my cousins who
>> is the parish ("Bethesda") music director.
>>
>> Then there was some scripture and prayers.
>>
>> AND THEN THEY TOOK A COFFEE BREAK!
>>
>> They returned to the nave proper for the sermon, some additional  hymns,
>> and it was all over.
>>
>> There have been worship liturgies I've attended through the years, where a
>> coffee break during the liturgy might have been very helpful.
>>
>> Maybe the CLB is on to something.
>>
>>
>> David Strang.
>>
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