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Converting the Church: Weightier Things - Jon Tyson

Church of the City New York

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'You'r Mine, Friends, Forever Be My Valentine'

In the last few years, it feels like faith's gotten highjacked, and somehow people have got white gloves on, passing out minutia in terms of the need of the hour, while the world is burning. A friend was working in the dean of women's off valentine's day, and she witnessed the bizarre scene of her boss censoring tiny heart shaped candies to be used as decorations for a party. Those were allowed, cuty pie, hot lips, loveyo, straight the trash can. In some sense, he spent the rest of his life trying to break that kind of psychological thinking that deeply impacted his practice of faith in formative years.

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