I will take comments on this submitted by email only to at KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com.
I will take comments on this submitted by email only to at KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com.
From Irenaeus:
Very engaging. Very artfully and professionally produced.
You can see argument VGR & Co. are setting up here: We are so much more advanced than Grover Cleveland and early mainframe computers that we need to update the doctrine and attitudes left over from even more primitive times.
From UndergroundPewster
I hope the production costs were donated.
I am distressed to see this “Letting the Secrets Out” with the “Too Many Secrets” scrabble words appearing again and again. We all know the unspoken secret to which that refers.
Besides that, when I saw this,
And I always thought the liturgy helped me worship God with proper reverence and awe. –
From JCO:
Not a bad piece, but other than a generic mention of good news and one mention of “The Gospel†– where’s Jesus? I really liked the one posted close by “What if Starbucks Marketed Like a Church? A Parableâ€
From DBAISC:
The video said very little about nothing which is what TEC is all about anyways…very little about nothing
From: The Archer of the Forest.
I sort of liked that video, and I am somewhat curious (though I can render an educated guess) why you cut off comments on it. Granted, there were some provocative pictures flashed up from time to time that I wouldn’t have used if I have been the producer, but it was well put together and posed some relevant questions that I think the Episcopal Church and the Church of England proper (an Established Church tradition) desperately needs to address.
We love to hide our treasure under a bushel basket, as it says in the King James Version, especially when it comes to modern media. We don’t like going door to door to evangelize. I know quite a few Episcopal Churches that don’t have websites, and let’s face it: in today’s society if you don’t have a website, you don’t exist. Many rectors wouldn’t have the foggiest notion how to use facebook. And then there’s the old Episcopal Shield that I think resembles something off a school uniform from a private boarding school.
I think we do have a treasure in the Anglican tradition, which is why I stay in the Episcopal Church. When done right, I’d put our best liturgies up against anybody’s in the business. People stand around and wringing their hands and wonder why the church is shrinking. True, part of it is that we have some internal feuds going on, but if people don’t know about us, then all the good stuff is for naught.
I made the comments submit by email only because with certain subjects a small minority of commenters cannot contain themsleves and go off topic as well as veering off in other unhelpful directions.
New Hampshire is one of these areas.
Kendall
From DL:
Dear Kendall:
Do you or anyone else have any idea how it is that Robert Redford of Utah is the glass-tabled Scrabbler in this TEC-NH video?
From Columcil:
The only question I have for those promoting the New Hampshire Spring Event 2009 is: Where, oh where is the Christ, Jesus? I believe boredom has become a cancer in liberal Protestantism so that the Good News, Jesus himself, must be hidden: Too many secrets.
From OW:
Using the “new media” to reach out to a broken world is a good idea; however, I fear what seems to me to be New Hampshire’s humanistic direction.
They call for a liturgy that honors children, creativity, our senses, and our bodies.
Call me “old fashioned”, but I prefer a liturgy that honors God, not humankind.
From Douglas LeBlanc:
That’s it?
I’d have to say the scariest thing in this video is the promise of still more awkward liturgical dancing, including by bishops.
It looks as though the day will be consumed as much with discussions of communication style as with content. Evangelicals have long embraced new media (such as radio and TV, in their time). God help us if we surrender that new-media curiosity to the theological left.