Pastor's Corner: What is weird?

I once knew a guy who had a bumper sticker on his car that read “Keep Church Weird.”

Now, I lived in Berkeley, California, at the time so maybe the only thing about this that caught my attention was “Church” needing to be singled out.

When everything is weird, is nothing weird?

For some reason, that particular simple message of all the pithy slogans we are inundated with everyday pops into my mind so often.

Maybe never more so than when Ash Wednesday and Lent roll around.

Because when we enter this penitential and preparatory season, we jump right into the hard stuff.

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