Daily Archives: May 4, 2002

All Systems Go!

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Everything should be working on the main journal page. The rest of the site is still under contruction as I apply templates to my older pages and redo some of the content.

Thank you to Leenie for the preeeeeeety picture and for helping me troubleshoot this morning and everyone else who has emailed me to help me or been online with me feeding me code. Y’all are real cool!

To those whom I sent the survey, please answer me post haste. For those who are interested in being a part of the survey, email me.

Papers and Mindgames

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I’ve been working on my “white paper” on contemporary worship for my Worship class (duh!) and I wish my professor would realize that contemporary worship services attract more of the 65-70 crowd in the ELCA. People my age want liturgy and many want all the smells and bells (though in my case, I’d take the bells without the smells) and putting a Vineyard service in an ELCA church is not going to help. I think contemporary worship is wonderful and I recognize and respect what the Vineyard is trying to do. I used to be very much in the mindset that this was perfect worship but now I oscillate between liturgy and contemporary worship.

In my paper, I have to answer such questions as: What is Lutheran worship?Do new people need simplified user-friendly worship? Why is Sunday so important as a ay of worship? Define “traditional”, “contemporary”, and “worshipful atmosphere”. These things could be answered many ways. Lutheran worship can be anything from a chorale Mass to indigenous hymns in an African tribe with African instruments. As for new people needing simplified worship, do any of the converts among my readers want to answer that? Those words could be defined in a number of ways and I don’t think any of my definitions could do them justice.

I had lunch with Bruce (one of my classmates today) and it was good. We talked about classes and next year. I still need to figure out what’s up for next year. I’m still waiting for an answer from God on that…

I’m doing a survey…

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I’m doing a survey of how my generation and seekers prefer to do worship. If I don’t know you and you want to participate, please email me and let me know!

Choral Evensong

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Well… Choral Evensong is over now. I would have stayed at the after-party longer but Debi and Marrianne were headed home and I wasn’t interested in walking home alone.

The service (which was more of a concert) went well other than our Dean of the Chapel basically refusing to cantor part of it (or at least lead a section) so Debi had to take over for him. (I have issues with him but that will be in another entry.) It was Holden Evening Prayer and since I cantor that every week with Debi (who is ten times better than I will ever be), it was easy music. The rest was all anthems and fun stuff. We did Rutter’s “Te Deum” which was great and we had full brass percussion and organ for that. It was a worshipful experience since I really wasn’t thinking about notes or dynamics too frequently tonight. Singing Holden with 200 people does that to you.|*||*|The after-party at Nancy’s house was really fun. She has 5 kitties and this was a Very Good Thing. (I have cat karma and some of my college friends would argue that I am a cat. 🙂 I was a happy Jen.) The food was basically hors d’oeuvres but it was fun conversation. =^..^= I ate with Carla and her husband and we talked about earthquakes and rattlesnakes and my addiction to JigZone.Com. (I am *NOT* addicted. I play it when I’m bored at work which happens frequently because my shift is usually after my Worship class and I’m usually too burned out to think about anything else.)

I know there are some problems with my layout but those aren’t getting fixed until tomorrow (well…since it’s after midnight, later today), so please be patient. If you can point out what is messing up in my code, I will be eternally grateful to you.

C/S