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Sunday Dec 19, 2010
Merry Christmas 2010
Sunday Dec 19, 2010
Sunday Dec 19, 2010
I'll be taking the week off for the holidays, avoiding for at least one year saying anything inappropriate about Christmas. What will I be doing instead? Worship, of course! I'll decide before Friday whether I'm attending one service or two this year. It isn't an easy decision for me. While I don't regard Christmas anywhere near as highly as Easter or Pentecost from a "holy day" perspective, most Christmas Eve services are truly beautiful. I never attend out of a sense of duty. For some, that rule might stop them from attending any Christmas Eve service ... if a sense of obligation is the only reason to go. No, I'm expectantly considering whether to worship twice -- different services, of course. Like the fellowship that is unique to a particular community of faith coming together to sing, listen to music, and tell an old, old story ... I also will spend as much time as I can this Christmas Eve with the community at Simply Syndicated. This year's live broadcast online of Richard & Allison's Super Happy Fun Time is the 3rd annual. In the best possible way, those years have flown by. The first year, I listened with both tears of joy and genuine sadness as the show brought together a worldwide audience to mourn with those who had just lost loved ones but also laugh heartily and knowingly -- the way friends do when they get together. Last year, I joined in both by using the chatroom (something I have avoided on every other website) and by calling in. Yes, Richard & Allison's SHaFT is a live online call-in show. This year ... who knows? I anticipate irreverent conversation, a genuine but quite secular approach to the holiday, and a very open community. This show makes new friends feel like very old allies while welcoming strangers in a better way than most/all other online forums. You are most welcome to join in: Simply Syndicated Radio The Christmas Eve show will start before 7 p.m. EST, because that is midnight on Christmas morning in England. Sometime, likely to be shortly after 6 p.m. EST, Richard and Allison will start broadcasting live from the heart of England. When I'm not raising a candle and singing "Silent Night" in an otherwise dark sanctuary, that's where I'll be. How does this holiday gameplan reflect the spirit of Inappropriate Conversations? Perfectly, in some ways. I might be the only person following along in the first two chapters of Matthew and Luke who will be tuning into SHaFT and earnestly wondering what I've missed. I also may be the only person in the chatroom for the show who eagerly allows the sometimes outrageous humour [U.K. spelling shout-out!] on the internet to lie comfortably between two sincere moments of praise and reverence for Christmas. If that dichotomy makes no sense to you, then please keep listening to Inappropriate Conversations. It's what this show is all about. Happy holidays, however you may observe them!
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