tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23235649.post9072904965657818670..comments2024-01-27T11:06:22.538-05:00Comments on ADORATE (Worship) : Racism and Dressing Up for ChurchAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11430203597916623529noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23235649.post-76799785689224128702021-04-27T19:20:01.637-04:002021-04-27T19:20:01.637-04:00I think the question is whg they still do, not why...I think the question is whg they still do, not why they ever started. Surely your students knew that everyone used to dress up for church. By why do certain groups continue it? In addition to the group you mentioned, I'll throw in a denonjnation: Church of Christ. Regardless of race they continue a tradition of dressing up for church. But why? Why when everyone else has moved on to shorts and T-shirts?jorgen bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23235649.post-87295705480957918042016-03-25T11:14:23.452-04:002016-03-25T11:14:23.452-04:00Well we just like to look smart.Our everyday cloth...Well we just like to look smart.Our everyday clothes are old and not very tidy.We have always dressed up so dont know about these previous comments.We have to keep our nice clothes from getting messy then they last longer .if you wore your suit to garden it would soon get messsy.Years ago not much money was about so that is another reason.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11768269859611795431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23235649.post-41690229248815499002014-04-08T12:48:03.529-04:002014-04-08T12:48:03.529-04:00I think the answer is simple. The middle-class whi...I think the answer is simple. The middle-class white congregations began dressing down for church. Black and Hispanic congregations do not intermingle with white congregations too much. So when whites began dressing down, blacks and Hispanics did not follow suit. Maybe they will, eventually. Maybe they won't.<br /><br />I will say, though, that it has been my personal observation that blacks who dress up tend to look more and better dressed up than whites who dress up for church. Their clothes look snazzier.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23235649.post-77959531880218085602014-04-06T08:07:15.007-04:002014-04-06T08:07:15.007-04:00I think I grasp your point. Although, when I use ...I think I grasp your point. Although, when I use the term dressing up, my reference point is that people are wearing clothes that are "nicer" than their every day outfits.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23235649.post-18878395719640447472014-04-06T07:30:54.829-04:002014-04-06T07:30:54.829-04:00I see an awful lot of "myopic cultural provin...I see an awful lot of "myopic cultural provincialism" on the part of Americans, both in the U.S. and (perhaps especially) on the part of Americans abroad. Perhaps being half-and-half -- partly American, but not fully so, on the fringes of American culture, but not wholly a part of it -- makes me more sensitive to this than most who are either wholly out or wholly in.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06182476930406524965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23235649.post-4063377106037291802014-04-06T02:08:14.836-04:002014-04-06T02:08:14.836-04:00Great post. I had no idea of my own cultural presu...Great post. I had no idea of my own cultural presuppositions until I married someone from another country and then moved to Texas, which sometimes may as well be another country. But even having those kinds of life experiences, we still need to be taught to think differently or we'll miss it. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10893276725168263335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23235649.post-37501860007650930342014-04-05T23:49:22.233-04:002014-04-05T23:49:22.233-04:00You always know how to make me smile. And, yes, I...You always know how to make me smile. And, yes, I think it is critical to hermeneutics. As I said once, Alexander Campbell looked down past 18 centuries of church history to see the face of Jesus. And, behold, He was a Protestant.<br /><br />Our culture wraps itself so tightly around us we think its distortions are clarity of sight.<br /><br />TomAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11430203597916623529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23235649.post-11145183132107542712014-04-05T21:19:08.562-04:002014-04-05T21:19:08.562-04:00"Myopic cultural provincialism would actually..."Myopic cultural provincialism would actually have been a better description. But, then again, would you have read the post even this far if I stuck those words in the title?"<br /><br />After my pulse rate returned to normal. <br /><br />This is a good report on a good experiment. I suspect your observation in the matter of worship tradition applies to many other areas of American evangelical faith and practice, even to our implicit hermeneutics.<br /><br />Thanks for posting this.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14730535680034794538noreply@blogger.com