{"id":601,"date":"2006-01-20T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=601"},"modified":"2006-01-20T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T22:15:00","slug":"601","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=601","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

And you thought our buildings<\/em> were Gothic<\/strong><\/p>\n

Will a Goth eucharist<\/a> bring the Goth kids back into the Gothic buildings?<\/p>\n

The candlelit Goth Eucharist services feature a specially written liturgy and music from bands like Depeche Mode, Joy Division and the Sisters of Mercy.<\/em><\/p>\n

I doubt it, because it’s not about the music. <\/p>\n

When I was in my early teens down at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, someone tried a “folk [music] Mass.” Folk Masses were big in the mid-1960s. Tambourines and guitars in church–whee! I get to bang the tambourine! Cool!<\/p>\n

But I still walked out the door at age 15. Not because I was mad about “adult hypocrisy.” Not because the probably gay curate tried to molest me in the sacristy–to my knowledge, he never tried anything with any of the altar boys.<\/p>\n

But because the Church’s explanation of the universe did not make sense to me. Playing “my music” would not have helped.<\/p>\n

Tags: Episcopal Church<\/a>, Anglicanism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And you thought our buildings were Gothic Will a Goth eucharist bring the Goth kids back into the Gothic buildings? The candlelit Goth Eucharist services feature a specially written liturgy and music from bands like Depeche Mode, Joy Division and the Sisters of Mercy. I doubt it, because it’s not about the music. 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