tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post4414442786285289521..comments2024-03-23T18:50:32.902-04:00Comments on Telling Secrets: Bah, humbug!Elizabeth Kaetonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787552280232329081noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-52237113059604956782010-12-20T07:31:30.986-05:002010-12-20T07:31:30.986-05:00Okay, okay, okay, Jonathan and JCF. Sweetness is i...Okay, okay, okay, Jonathan and JCF. Sweetness is in the ear of the beholder.Elizabeth Kaetonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06787552280232329081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-7366872339821397602010-12-20T05:37:42.052-05:002010-12-20T05:37:42.052-05:00Is there anything sweeter than children singing at...<i>Is there anything sweeter than children singing at Christmas?</i><br /><br />A poke in the eye with a sharp stick, maybe?<br /><br />Brussel sprouts for the tenth day in a row?<br /><br />Simon Cowell?<br /><br />Oh, the list is endless, Lisbeth!MadPriesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15120376342802143188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-91724228330439618282010-12-19T22:34:16.975-05:002010-12-19T22:34:16.975-05:00I think that the presence of kids in church is alw...I think that the presence of kids in church is always a blessing and whatever prompts them to engage with the central ideas of our faith is great. The exuberance of the song was fun, as was the interaction between the kids and the adults.<br /><br />But...there are some really nice, easy to sing pieces out there for kids to learn. And kids do grapple with the mysteries when we let them. So I think I would have a small problem with "Happy Birthday, Jesus." Not so much on aesthetic grounds as much as the basic right of kids not to be set up for saccharine displays.<br /><br />After all, in order to do a clever parody, you have to be familiar with the original.Mary-Cauliflowerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17023407956584118667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-3317002033758351752010-12-19T18:02:18.946-05:002010-12-19T18:02:18.946-05:00I'm afraid I'm instinctively a HumBugger, ...I'm afraid I'm instinctively a HumBugger, Elizabeth.<br /><br />Our kids sang "Happy Birthday Jesus" this morning. When the first soloist was EXCRUCIATINGLY off-key, my hand---I swear, it was involuntary---quickly formed a finger-pistol, and <i>I fired it at my own head!</i><br /><br />(Like the pain-threshhold, the aesthetics threshhold is a very personal thing. ;-X)<br /><br />---which is not to say we should be inhospitable, or (perhaps worse) of the "We.Have.Never.Done.It.That.Way.Before" dinosaur herd.<br /><br />There's gotta be another way...JCFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-11384048034040099972010-12-19T16:12:42.693-05:002010-12-19T16:12:42.693-05:00Well said!Well said!marnanelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08335477330828148496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-61785775894005511902010-12-19T14:39:27.595-05:002010-12-19T14:39:27.595-05:00Elizabeth...what's it worth to you for me to c...Elizabeth...what's it worth to you for me to come to RB, have you put me in front of the little clutch of "Tsk tskers," and start singing snippets of Handel's Messiah, using the words you've seen me Facebooking the last couple of weeks that would more correctly be called, "Handel's Canine Messiah?"<br /><br />What do you think they would do when I started singing at the top of my voice of the "Glory of the dogs...shall beeeeee reeeeeveeeeealllll-ed....for the mouth of the dogs.....have bar-ked it!" LOLKirkepiscatoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02651684515435040529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-21060609520956840072010-12-19T14:07:37.576-05:002010-12-19T14:07:37.576-05:00David Anderson must not have done very well in the...David Anderson must not have done very well in the history of the church. Depending on the age of some of these English church buildings this will not be the first time that their naves have seen local produce and wares being sold. And it was not just in the aisles, because until after the Reformation and its over emphasis on the ministry of the word, churches did not have benches or pews and naves were multipurpose as the church ministries strove to feed the whole person.<br /><br />These self righteous pendejos spend an inordinate amount of time judging the faithfulness and the ministry of the gospel of others, I hope for their own sake they can meet their own standard of measure or they set themselves up for a sad day of reckoning.Brother Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06333089314994730330noreply@blogger.com