Thanksgiving in Gaylord
Thursday November 27, 2008
Categories: essay
For years, it was always the same. Around 8:45 in the morning, we'd pile in the station wagon and head over to church, greeted there by a couple high school students dressed as pilgrims and playing snare drums. Inside, our...
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Tony Jones is the author of many books, including The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier and The Sacred Way: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life. He is a leader in the emergent church movement and a renowned expert on postmodern theology and the American church landscape.
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Lutefisk, herring, davenport, spritz. Check, check, check, check.
Thank you, Tony.
Nice one Tony ... dang, so young to be so good at nostalgia.
Tony, you picked a heckuva time -- in the middle of your same-sex blogalogue -- to share reflections on GAYLORD, Minnesota. More fuel to the fire, my friend, fuel to the fire ;-)
To foreign Californian ears, this has strong hints of Keillor. Fun to read.
Thank you Tony! Everyone has always claimed that the word breezeway was some family invention. Thank you for proving them wrong!!
Wow, you stirred up a mass of memories. Beautifully written. FYI - I remember watching the annual coverage of Colonial's pilgrims on the 10 p.m. news. As a little kid, I thought that had to be the coolest church ever. To this day, I love pickled herring. We joke that it's "Swedish sushi."
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