Turns out I’m wrong again. Redeemer NYC is again on the cutting edge, going against the grain by making February Arts Month.Â
You can read more about it here (not to mention the female – ahem – Director of Arts Ministry – double ahem). Just when I was set to watch Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, now I learn I should have rented Pollock.Â
Darn, redeeming culture is so tricky.
Old Life 
Darn, redeeming culture is so tricky.
But only if you’re focused on the wrong things. If Keller and crew would do something about $7 Heineken’s at the U.S. Open in Queens I might be more sympathetic. Beyond that, I am still puzzled over just what’s wrong with NYC. If anyone agrees, I still have plenty of “I love NYC (and wouldn’t change a thing)” tee shirts–I’m having a dickens of a time unloading them with all these New Schoolers writing books.
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Zrim,
Heineken is proof that the Dutch cannot be trusted with cultural renewal.
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What’s wrong with New York? Just look at the line of succession, Jonathan Edwards, Albert Barnes, Harry Emerson Fodick.
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Hmmm, so I guess the premises of transformationalism really are self-defeating. I mean, either, after such a cloud of witnesses as Edwards-Barnes-Fosdick, nothing really took and things still need shaping up, or Keller & Co. think they can do better. Neither option seems to bode well for the good pastor.
Man, tricky is right.
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…and, Jesse, I wouldn’t know about that since I refuse to pay that much for a drink. It’s not hard to believe you, though, since Little GRusalem looks like a heckuva lot like everywhere else.
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You write, “Darn, redeeming . . .”
Darn? Please DG, I thought this was an Old Life website! No more sugar coating. We expect you to curse like a Lutheran, or worse, a Catholic. To paraphrase Menken, “Every Old Life Presbyterian must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.”
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Father T: Good point. But I don’t want to scare away the Neo-Reformed. This is an ecumenical blog.
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DGH
Albert Barnes, as I am sure you know, was in Philly and it was in that presbytery that he got in trouble .
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Gary, Barnes preached his infamous sermon while pastor of First Presbyterian NYC. Only the proto-Old School Presbyterians in Philadelphia had enough sense to question his views.
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