Just when you think church stuff is as goofy as it can get, new heights (or depths) of goofiness pop up. The former New Life Church, in a rural township not far from here, decided it needed a "hipper handle" to attract young customers, compete with other churches and eliminate any appearance of being an "old, stuffy,fuddy duddy" congregation. "New Life" is getting old and lots of churches are using it. So that newly hip church shall henceforth be ... are you ready for this? .the point. That's right. "dot, the point." All lower case. Oh boy, how contemporary can you get. The associate pastor says the new handle is a visual metaphor.
Just around the corner from me is what used to be a Baptist Church. Now it's The Bridge Bible Church. I suppose "bridge" is a twenty-first century updating of what we fuddy duddys called reconciliation. Or that totally archaic word from your great grandpappy's church, "propitiation."
Does the plural of "duddy" become "duddies?" I will ask someone from .the point. I'm sure they have a grammatically and theologically hip answer.
You don't like social action churches, but you kinda sound like one of us Unitarians. We mostly just talk about social action. (sad to say)
ReplyDeleteUnitarian Universalists could use a hipper handle. Maybe Worship at the Well (and by "well" we would mean the coffee urn.)
And no, UUs can't do anything about the bad roads in PA. After all, if we did, then YOUR state would have the worst roads. We wanna be first in somethin'.