Problems at my church
My church, one of the largest in the city, with a great big landmark
building,
has recently lost one of our clergy. This priest was
the only ethnic or sexual minority on the clerical staff of the
church. He was also one of out best liturgists and homileticists
(sermon-giver). We lost a lot of talent in the loss of him.
Now, all of our people are straight, white, liberals. I’m a bit
disappointed, to say the least. What does it say to the minority
people in the pews (for we have lots of gay people, Nigerian people,
hispanic people, and so forth)?
We were recently profiled for our building project
in the Times. Our building project has sort of developed a life
of its own, and sometimes the connection to our ministry is
unclear. Sometimes we seem to forget that the building is a
National Landmark because we have used it to do the work of the church,
rather than the other way around.
I’m not sure that we’re on the right track right now, and it worries me a bit.
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