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Post by timtoast on Mar 27, 2006 21:46:04 GMT -5
I swear I’m not making this up……
A few weeks ago the young pastor/priest at my wife’s Episcopal church invited us to have dinner at his house with his wife. Once there I noticed his huge CD collection and was shocked to see several Replacements and Westerberg ones on his shelf. I was even more floored to see he had ALL of Chris Mars’ cds as well (including his last, seldom bought “Anonymous Botch”). Turns out he’s a big fan and we proceeded to talk about it all night.
This past Sunday he tipped my wife off that his sermon was actually going to have a Replacements theme to it. I went along and was happily surprised. He started off with the words “Look me in the eye and tell me….that I’m satisfied.” From there he focused on the theme of religious “satisfaction”, but only after he briefed the whole church on the background of that line, mentioning both the Replacements and Paul Westerberg in some detail. He later mentioned the painfully sung lines “I’m so, I’m so…unsatisfied”.
While I’m sure the bizarrely entertaining moment was lost upon the congregation, it tickled me immensely. It fit perfectly with the point he was trying to make. My wife joked that perhaps the choir would even launch into a PW song, but alas, it was not meant to be.
To add one final odd note, about ½ a block away from the church I was listening to XM radio and what do you think starting playing…..none other than “When it Began”.
Maybe next Sunday he’ll use the line “You’ve been swearing to God, now maybe if you asked…” as a follow up.
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Post by headlightbeams on Mar 27, 2006 22:06:56 GMT -5
That's pretty far up the charts of injecting your fandom into your professionalism.
What WAS the point he was trying to make?
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Post by pline on Mar 27, 2006 22:20:10 GMT -5
... A few weeks ago the young pastor/priest at my wife’s Episcopal church ... Is it your's now too  ? Thanks for the story. |
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Post by adamapple on Mar 28, 2006 0:05:23 GMT -5
i can see paul groaning, and yelling , leave my song alone...injecting relgious overtones, aaack, i think i woulda walked out...dont mix my rock n roll with no jesus..
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Post by brianlux on Mar 28, 2006 0:40:02 GMT -5
The cool thing about some Episcopalian churches is that you never know what you'll find there. I went to one once where the minister/pastor/priest-what-have-you used a gong and some Zen effects. Hey,for all I know, he might have even gone home that night and listened to Zen Arcade. As for mixing secular and sacred- think of the number of times self-professed athiest Kurt Vonnegut has been invited to speak at churches. It's all good.
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Post by mdelirious on Mar 28, 2006 20:38:11 GMT -5
We have a local Episcopalian church whose radio commercials often contain such bizarre lines as "My God is 'dog' spelled backward!"
But that's one interesting story, timtoast.
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Post by A Regular on Mar 28, 2006 21:19:03 GMT -5
We get down on our knees
And we don't care who sees
And tell the ones who ask
And to hell with those who laugh
Next Sunday's sermon?
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Post by timtoast on Mar 28, 2006 21:42:44 GMT -5
We get down on our knees And we don't care who sees And tell the ones who ask And to hell with those who laugh Next Sunday's sermon? Another appropriate line.....thanks for pointing it out. Any others, anyone? I knew the priest was cool the first time I attended the church. That sermon mentioned Ozzy Osbourne. A later one included a reference to Slipknot and Dylan came up once as well. |
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Post by bside on Sept 6, 2009 12:03:42 GMT -5
"Jesus rides beside me, never buys any smokes"
I'm actually a middle school youth minister at an Episcopal church. I've wanted to base a sermon on that concept before.
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Post by timtoast on Sept 6, 2009 18:40:17 GMT -5
How very, very odd that this thread resurfaces.
The priest I mentioned when I started this thread recently moved to Austin. He contacted me via email just yesterday to tell me he bought Come Feel Me Tremble at a used CD store and wanted to know the story behind it. (He thought it was a compilation cd)
I guess God does work in mysterious ways....
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Post by wecantgetanybetter on Sept 6, 2009 21:42:31 GMT -5
Huh. I'm kinda surprised he didn't already own CFMT ... but I guess if he thought it was a compilation.
I could do a sermon on "Never Felt Like This Before" if anyone's interested.
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Post by bside on Sept 7, 2009 15:42:01 GMT -5
Speaking of Episcopals and Paul Westerberg, I do some video editing for my church and edited a highlight reel of this years VBS set to "Seen Your Video" by the Replacements. I played it for the congregation and got a pretty big kick of the Replacements being played in our hundred year old sanctuary. I'd like to think it was the first time. Even let it linger on Paul's voice yelling "Phony rock n roll!" after the picture had blacked out.
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Post by FreeRider on Sept 7, 2009 22:24:30 GMT -5
that's pretty funny....the idea of the Mats being played for a congregation.
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Post by wiser's deluxe on Sept 17, 2009 22:22:55 GMT -5
that's a great story timtoast.
this won't top it, but my wife is a substitute teacher and got a long-term gig last spring teaching a kindie class through the end of the school year, including the graduation, which was to have a sea-type theme.
so, she went looking for two songs to go with it, one to march on stage to, and the other to sing along with.
the sing-a-long one was quite obvious, The Beatles' Yellow Submarine.
but my wife was stumped for another sea/fish song until i suggested "All He Wants to Do is Fish."
she was familiar with it -- well, she's my wife and all -- and after two listens through she found it appropriate.
the class loved it and marched into the gym and on stage holding cardboard fish on yardsticks.
i saw the video that a parent gave to my wife. it was absolutely amusing. ... perhaps, we've "baited" a few future 'Mats fans.
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Post by wiser's deluxe on Sept 17, 2009 22:23:12 GMT -5
that's a great story timtoast.
this won't top it, but my wife is a substitute teacher and got a long-term gig last spring teaching a kindie class through the end of the school year, including the graduation, which was to have a sea-type theme.
so, she went looking for two songs to go with it, one to march on stage to, and the other to sing along with.
the sing-a-long one was quite obvious, The Beatles' Yellow Submarine.
but my wife was stumped for another sea/fish song until i suggested "All He Wants to Do is Fish."
she was familiar with it -- well, she's my wife and all -- and after two listens through she found it appropriate.
the class loved it and marched into the gym and on stage holding cardboard fish on yardsticks.
i saw the video that a parent gave to my wife. it was absolutely amusing. ... perhaps, we've "baited" a few future 'Mats fans.
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Post by bigbak on Sept 23, 2009 12:02:52 GMT -5
Had not seen this thread before - brought a smile to my agnostic face.
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