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Monday, June 13, 2011

"Special Needs Boy Removed From Worship: Can the values of entertainment and hospitality coexist?"

"church is entertaining me/
in place of theology../
I'm still looking for Jesus.."
-The Violet Burning, "br0thr part 1"
(1-05 br0thr PT 1 by thevioletburning)
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You may want to click the story...and weep:
"Special Needs Boy Removed From Worship: Can the values of entertainment and hospitality coexist?"  by Skye Jethani



 I saw/felt this coming in the early 90s when visiting a megachurch..the usher greeted us first-timers (im)politely with refusing to let us bring our (non-crying, non-special needs) son into the service, as he might disrupt..

I'm still looking for Jesus/
singing out  on this lonely street. 

1 comment:

  1. Sadly this also works with homelessness. I recall a church to which I took one of my hostel residents some years ago. That led to the humiliation of the young woman who was publicly humiliated for what she was wearing and her inability to put anything in the collection plate. I had a public row with a Steward and never went back there again. Neither did she.

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