[Magdalen] My Church

[Marion Thompson]

She.  No, she didn't.  Rather, when it came to a warden's ears that the 
coordinator had meet with the bishop and the warden  then approached the 
bishop, the word was to say nothing at all until Advisory Bd, but that 
clearly was unrealistic because word spread immediately from the 
coordinator's informing the volunteers and anyway the coordinator won't 
be at Advisory Bd this week to tell us.  Something stinky about it all.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 3/16/2015 1:34 PM, Jon Egger wrote:
> Marion, when the bishop found out about this plan, I hope he told the
> parish post haste?
>
> +++
> Grace & peace,
> Rev. Jon Egger
> Deacon Emeritus
> Old Trinity Parish
> Independence, MO
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:24 AM, <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Not the truth that I suspect he might have preferred, unless I misread the
>> snarky tone...
>>
>> There is plenty of precedent in the primitive Church for handing out food
>> and other provisions, and none at all for "music consultancy"; St Paul's
>> recommendation sounds more like a musical pot-luck supper than a
>> professional music ministry.
>>
>> And then, Jesus himself handed out food on more than one occasion but
>> expressed no opinion on how churches should be run, nor on music apart from
>> complaining that people expected him to dance to their tune, and hinting
>> that stones might make better musicians than some hard hearted people.
>>
>> Which is not to say that excellent music is a bad thing, or any of the
>> other multifarious activities that comprise what we think of as "local
>> church". I like good music and have oft bemoaned its absence on this very
>> list...
>>
>> It's just to speculate that a church erring in the "soup kitchen" direction
>> is an acorn falling close to the parent tree.
>>
>> Sally
>> On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 at 16:59 Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> In a message dated 3/16/2015 10:14:45 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>>> jguthrie at pipeline.com writes:
>>>
>>> Some  object, but I think that's more a matter of the food bank being a
>>> "feel  good" endeavor for the participants in the congregation rather
>> than
>>> a "How
>>> can we help as many in Need as we can?"  strategy.>>>>
>>>
>>> Not noted for his quiet diplomacy, TEC music consultant Mason Martens
>>> said on several occasions that it was his opinion that some Manhattan
>>> parishes had real difficulty deciding on whether they were a parish
>>> church or a soup kitchen.
>>>
>>> This is a typical, snarky comment by Martens, but he may have hit
>>> upon a bit of truth.
>>>
>>>
>>> David S.
>>>