HAS THE CHURCH GONE MAD?

My church here in Saskatoon wasn't having a Good Friday service because they were doing a musical and were doing several performances throughout the weekend. I felt like a heathen not going to church on Good Friday so I went to the church across the street from where I live yesterday. It's a pretty big church. They have one of those big choirs with the robes and a super enthusiastic pentacostal preacher. I had a really hard time looking past one small detail. The pews were hot pink. Not just pink or bright pink, they were the very definition of hot pink. Somewhere between highlighter pink and magenta. I had a hard time seeing the pastor because I was being blinded by the pews. It was especially bad when we stood to sing because there were not butts sitting to cover up the colour. What was the designer thinking I wonder? The rest of the church was a regular grey and blue kind of theme. If I was putting in pews like that I would have thrown in some shag carpet and lava lamps.


I went to the Easter production at my church tonight. It was pretty good. The dude (and I mean that in every sense of the word for reasons I will explain shortly) playing Jesus did a realy good job. He was in our Christmas play too and he is a really gifted actor. There was something about him that just didn't fit though. He was from California. And like a stereotypic Californian (hense the "dude") he had blond hair. I have never seen a blond Jesus before. It was a little strange for me. He did do a fantastic job though. Playing Jesus can't be easy.

Sidenote: I am listening to Casting crowns second album for the first time. They write great lyrics! I just heard a line that epescially stuck out to me from the song "While you were sleeping."

"United States of America,
Looks like another silent night,
As we're sung to sleep by philosophies,
That save the trees and kill the children"

Sad but true.