Is Reformation Day the new Kwanzaa?
If so, then it fits the definition for the Academic Sanctioned Shindig: a holiday with no connection to the folk or folk customs invented and celebrated by academics to make a point and to replace a phenomenally more popular party.
I am all for remembering our fathers in the faith. I am all for reading more Luther and Calvin. (Please remember some Wesley in the mix!) However, “Reformation Day” seems like Arbor Day (the seminal Academic Sanctioned Shindig) as far as a holiday goes unless the Lutherans add some beer, the Wesleyans write some Reformation Day Carols, or the Calvinists set up Servetus Trees or something.
October 31st, 2009 | 8:50 pm | #1
Servetus Trees? You burn me up, dude.
October 31st, 2009 | 8:58 pm | #2
I would have preferred Servetus.
October 31st, 2009 | 9:33 pm | #3
And it all happened one dark Menno night.
October 31st, 2009 | 10:03 pm | #4
O Servetus Tree
Servetus Tree
How Flaming Are Your Branches
You Deny the Trinity
We Deny Your Humanity
O Servetus Tree
Servetus Tree
How Flaming Are Your Branches.
October 31st, 2009 | 10:37 pm | #5
I pity Protestants who don’t know how to celebrate the Reformation.
You should have been at our celebration at our church, complete with Bach’s Cantata 80.
November 1st, 2009 | 1:33 am | #6
Careful – too much mention of Servetus in these troubled theological times and we just might see a new holiday: Servetus Memorial Day, celebrating this brave soul who was persecuted by fundamentalists for championing free thought and, we’re pretty sure because it sure would be convenient, fighting for the rights of women and homosexuals. Oh, and he hated the Pope and Calvinists so he must have been one cool dude.
November 1st, 2009 | 9:27 am | #7
We put a bunch of theses in a bag, put it on the doorstep, light it on fire, ring the doorbell, and run. . .
November 2nd, 2009 | 12:29 pm | #8
McCain’s site is chock-a-block full of beauty. Well done.
I mean the commenter on this thread and not the senior senator from Arizona.
November 2nd, 2009 | 12:36 pm | #9
John, that’s hilarous, yet so wrong… Paul, clever, my man, clever, and hilarous!
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