The Context Engine: More on the Unity Church thing

[scarlettina]

The more I think about this gig, the more conflicted I am about it. mrdorbin put it very eloquently when he said, "...singing as part of a church choir isn't perfomance, it's ministry (well, that's the sound bite, anyway; it's more complicated than that, because music IS art." It is complicated.

pixxelpuss and ironymaiden got me thinking about context, and how, without

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[twilight2000]

ok -- so in my position (also of a non-evangalizing faith tradition who doesn't like to be evangalized by anyone) -- singing in the Unity Church (a church, as I understand it, of "all faiths" with no specific trad elevated above or denegrated below any other faith) would pose no trouble for me at all. The fact that they accept *all* faiths and I would be singing to *all* people of spirituality would work just fine for me.

It would be a very different thing if I were being asked to stand up and minister to a specific faith of which I was not a part. And worse still if that faith happened to be one of those that denegrated my own.

A 3rd scenario strikes me (for sake of completeness) in that I might be part of a group asked to come present our music in a house of worship not for ministry but because that place also serves the local community as a "performance" house (e.g. Grace Cathedral in San Fran) where people of all faiths might come together to sing for an audience (not likely during morning service). That would work for me as well.

Of course all of this is moot -- it's *you* for whom this has to work -- but I hope there's some stuff to chew on above :>.

[scarlettina]

We were set up for the third sccenario, which is why when I found myself in the first scenario (which was flavored by a specific denomination's approach to same) I was uncomfortable. This has been complex for me (as you may have guessed) and giiven me lots of food for thought.