And when it comes to food, when we have all our great church dinners, make just enough food to go around, One of the worst causes of methane in the air is when we take a lot of food
from church suppers and throw it away and put it into landfills.
Not exact matches
Yet some of the most substantive theology being written by Baptist scholars today comes
from a little - known circle of mostly younger moderates who have shown a surprising interest in quite traditional themes such as the deeper meaning of baptism and the Lord's
Supper, the covenantal disciplines of congregational life, and the positive role of creeds and confessions in the life of the
church.
But aside
from special occasions — midweek services during Lent,
church suppers (to this day I avoid
church basements because they invariably bring to mind those tedious, endless
suppers)-- that was all.
Luther's patron and protector, Frederick, was really keen on relics: the Wittenberg
church had more than 19,000 of them, displayed along the nine aisles, including vials of milk
from the virgin Mary, straw
from Jesus» manger, bread
from the last
supper, a branch of the burning bush
from which God spoke to Moses (thankfully no longer alight) and a strand of Jesus» beard.
I could have written «So
from Scripture, we can see how at it's essence our of Lord's
Supper that is typically practiced in the average
church today is the same as the
church has celebrated it since it's very beginning» and then used the rest of that paragraph word for word the same.
We remark the curious fact that just as, thirty years ago, the
churches had about succeeded in excising Bach and Palestina
from the ken of the new generation at the moment college and high school choirs were finding them — and
church schools, afraid of the recondite reaches of the doctrine of the Lord's
Supper, beheld their children at school singing «0 Magnum Mysterium» and «Ave, Corpus Verum» — so, too, the preaching fashion, having become in large part the holy branch office of the local psychiatric clinic, is now confronted with «J.B.,» «The Fall,» «Christmas Oratoria,» and the considerable theological imagery in «Four Quartets.»
It has always been assumed that, under the Free Exercise Clause, these laws did not prohibit
churches from providing sacramental wine to minors participating in the celebration of the Lord's
Supper.
This is how most of my friends, including members of The Lasting
Supper, experienced their departure
from church.
Our absolutely unbelievably amazing online community, The Lasting
Supper, is entirely made up of escape artists: people who've escaped or are in the process of escaping
from unhealthy
churches, relationships, jobs and other unhappy situations.
The
church's witness to the reign of God is crucial but also provisional, for the mystery of God is beyond all domestication, as evidenced in Barth's radical rethinking of baptism and the Lord's
Supper as witness to something
from on high rather than as the established «sacraments» of Christendom.
(Our online community, The Lasting
Supper, is entirely made up of escape artists: people who've escaped or are in the process of escaping
from unhealthy
churches, relationships, jobs, and other unhappy situations.
It made me think of
church suppers from another era.
Whether it's a dinner party, brunch,
church supper, or team dinner, our favorite dishes go
from freezer to table with ease.
The venue is but a short distance
from the
Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie where Leonardo painted The Last
Supper.
However we have a special harvest thanksgiving service and
supper in our
church when it is beautifully decorated with fruit, veg and flowers, so in my blog post I shared some images
from there as well as my home decor.