I'm in my hometown today for a wedding of an old friend. She's a US Army officer, and her now-husband is a British Army officer. They got married in a beautiful Episcopal church under the moss-strewn oak trees. I'll be honest with you, I found myself thinking at one point during the wedding service, "God bless the Episcopalians, I hope they make it. This is so beautiful."
I can't possibly express how happy I am for my friend Laura and her Neal. Laura really is one of those people everybody loves, and looks up to. I met Neal for the first time today, and he is a prince. A prince, I tell you! It was raining like hell during the reception, but there we were under the tent, having a blast. The jazz band played, the wine and Champagne flowed, and the food was glorious. Saw a lot of old friends, and was reminded again why I love the South, and love being from the South. Actual conversational snippet: "Well, you know that [N.] brought her boyfriend home one night, her brother slept with him, and her Mama ended up marrying him!" True story. We fell out laughing. God, I love the South. Poor Neal, he doesn't know what kind of eccentricity he's done married into...
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Civil religion with aesthetic values -- what's not to like?
Thanks to both Susan and Masha!
Marriage nowadays is so weird. Mainly it seems to be the excuse for a large expensive wedding party, sometimes years after all the things that we used to think marriage was about have already taken place. Things like living together, combining resources, buying houses, having children.
"We're engaged" they say. "The wedding is going to be in summer 2010." Everything we used to think people did when they married, they have already done. So why don't they just go down to the courthouse and get a license and do the deed? Now. No, it is important to have the white dress, the big cake, the disk jockey and the big impersonal pricey venue.
Weird, I say.
"When the going gets really tough, everybody becomes an Episcopalian."
Tell that to Thomas More.
On the strength of 2 Timothy 4:3-4, I expect TEC to be around for some time to come.
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