Secrets of the City

So we’re the iPod generation? I’ve been calling us “Generation Y (Not)?”

Speaking of Generation Y: Y are so many posts of late about the generation gaps and zip codes that allegedly separate us? Y.A.W.N.

I have bittersweet feelings toward the i-Pod.

I don’t know if I like it being the representation of our generation. Every idiot with a high speed connection thinks they’re the authority on music now…very annoying.

“hipodsters”

I got married in and occasionally attend HoM. It really does feel like a church for people that hate church. I’m an agnostic and I actually kinda like going there. They let you listen to your iPod during the sermon.

When I do attend church – which I feel I should do more often, but never do anything about – I enjoy the Spirit Garage on Lyndale. Great service, great people, very friendly (but not in that overly brearing creepy religous zealot way). It is very chilled and laid back.

Let’s merge the iTunes essential thread with this one and discuss what we’re listening to at church.

I thought Unitarian churches were the churches for those who hate church?

I go to hate churches, too, sometimes.

“A real Christian has an insatiable desire deep down to find God on a personal level.” Quote from Strib article.

Forgive my pessimism, but I’m guessing this church is like any other church- judgemental and zealous. The quote above provides evidence of my suspision. I’m not a christian, but I do find it interesting how much time adherants to the faith spend defining who is and is not one of them. Is there even such a thing as a “real christian”? If not that, passing guesses about who among them has been “saved” seems another popular passtime among the faithful.

Sorry if I offend any believers- its not my intention.

does it make a different that the church started two years before the first ipod shipped?

The professor quoted in the article is from a school that is not representative of the churches he was referring to. I knew a girl who went to Northwestern, and we couldn’t so much as get caught hugging by her administrators. This sort of ultra-legalistic interpretation of correct personal behavior is very different from the amorphous emergent style of worship. As mikeb and joel_p said, churches like Solomon’s Porch and Spirit Garage are places where even agnostics are comfortable.

Speaking as a faithful Methodist (emergents can have their body praise and ipod sermons–I still need to sing Amazing Grace and eat at potlucks), I agree that judgmentalism is bad, but I don’t see anything wrong with aspiring to a zealous pursuit of God.

I think I just pointed to a swath of differences in Minneapolis Christianity–from the way they do it at Northwestern to the way it’s done at Spirit Garage to the way it’s done at a United Methodist Church. But the tent is big–few would say that any of these aren’t Christian.

lol “make a different” me sure talk pretty

The iPod thing was a Strib moniker, and you know how they feel about getting their facts straight. Maybe they could have called us “The Walkman Generation”.