[Magdalen] Please Pray - Shooting in Charleston, SC church

[Grace Cangialosi]

You're absolutely right, Jim, and I apologize. I was speaking out of experiences my friends have related and the times I thought I might be walked out on--including last Sunday.

The one time someone walked out on me--and said he wasn't coming back--was right before the service on Advent 4, when he looked in the bulletin and saw there were no Christmas hymns! He had been to a Lutheran service with his wife earlier in the morning, and they didn't have any, either!  He made good on his promise, though, only came back once for a funeral.

But again, Jim, you're right: one size doesn't fit all...
Grace

> On Jun 21, 2015, at 10:23 PM, "Jim Guthrie" <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:
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> From: Grace Cangialosi
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>> Well, it's my contention that if people walk out on a sermon, the preacher is probably doing something right.
>> Like...preaching the Gospel.
> 
> Would you say my preacher was doing something right when he was denouncing all teachers in public schools as anarchists and subversives when my great grandfather walked out (with his family, including a public school teacher). Or maybe when my paternal grandfather walked out on the RC Archbishop of NY when he came to ask for the third $10 brick to build the third new parish that the family would be obligated to move to (after doing the same twice before?).
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> I'm not sure the glib "one size fits all" answer is the right one, Grace.
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> Cheers,
> Jim
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