Christmas service revisited
 

We had an excellent lesson yesterday, but it was in no way related to Christmas. Christmas service is reserved for Wednesday and Thursday.

Here's the unfortunate part:

The clergy, knowing that this week is their one shot with the several hundred people who will attend church just this one time per year, plan the most cutesy, commercial, watered-down, safe little program for the Christmas service. They do it every year. I hate it.

This will be the only time this year that my husband will attend church, and the service is going to confirm all his stereotypes about American Christianity.

Now if he'd gone yesterday, he'd have heard an intelligent, insightful commentary. But no, he's going on Wednesday, to a service the clergy has tailored just for him, and he'll get an anemic lesson and a healthy dose of McChurch. yuck.

So a word to the pastor would not be received favorably?

So, what? No snakes on Wednesday?

Those are the pentecostals.

Us megachurches, we just have to turn down the amp and hide the fog machine.

Christmas and Easter services have been done this way at every protestant church in the country for at least a generation. I doubt it's going to change anytime soon.

I was mistaken. Apparently the protocol is to turn *up* the amp. It was enough to give even the members of Metallica a headache. The nine-year-old loved it.