captainsblog | God is Still Speaking. And boy is She pissed.

There's a United Church of Christ building a bit over a mile west of here on Sheridan Drive, which for years has featured this message on its street sign and, until recently, on a banner on the building itself:

It sends a message that I've always agreed with: that the notion of the Bible being both truth and literal fact is only as good as the morals and precepts of the dead white celibate males who voted on the Table of Contents back in the fourth century A.D.- when the sun still revolved around the earth, the earth itself was barely 4,000 years old, and church politics had more to do with "ins" and "outs" of the resulting canon than eternal Christian principles did.

I like the idea that my God hasn't put away the pen, or the prophets, or the need to adapt the message to the masses. It saddened me, therefore, to drive by the Eggertsville UCC in recent days and see that the building has been abandoned. A KEEP OUT fence now surrounds it, and a "for lease" sign graces its once consecrated ground. Clerk records show that the congregation sold it to a well-known local developer for half a million bucks. The one article I can find about it says the church is moving to a new location, but there's nothing on the church's somewhat-dormant site or at any level of the Congregational Church hierarchy to confirm that.

Meanwhile, the sign still sits outside the KEEP OUT fence, still saying that worship and church school are carried out at 10 on Sunday mornings; and the GOD IS STILL SPEAKING logo is still on its corner. The message is a bit confusing right now, but somehow I still hear Him. Her. Them. Whatever.

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For even more fun with church signs, be sure to check out the latest from liddle_oldman and his church's ongoing battles with vandals and Proper Bostonians over its display of a gay-pride flag on its building. It's good to hear God Still Speaking there, as well:)