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College students create confessional in a car
Reading-Eagle ^ | McClatchy-Tribune

Posted on 05/23/2009 6:10:29 AM PDT by Alex Murphy

Edited on 05/23/2009 7:00:04 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

CHICAGO - Like the light on a taxi, the hand-painted sign inviting strangers to confess their sins beckoned a small crowd of passers-by splashing through the rain in Chicago's South Loop area last week.

But the brown Ford hatchback with faux stained glass windows was hardly your typical confessional.


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....the brown Ford hatchback with faux stained glass windows was hardly your typical confessional. For starters, it was the confessor in the driver's seat doing the confessing. Not the other way around.

The jalopy had been converted by a group of young artists from Columbia College Chicago's Campus Crusade for Christ. Rather than expecting visitors to fess up, the young crusaders revealed their own iniquities and apologized on behalf of the church for whatever pain it had caused.

1 posted on 05/23/2009 6:10:30 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
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To: Alex Murphy
I read about this idea first in “Blue like Jazz.” There they used a booth, not a car, but confessed their sins to other at the event.
2 posted on 05/23/2009 6:15:19 AM PDT by cotton
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The church hasn’t caused any trouble for over 400 years. It’s rather silly to apologize.


3 posted on 05/23/2009 6:19:50 AM PDT by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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? Art project? Cultural studies? I wonder if this was really sponsored by Campus Crusade for Christ? The story is kind of thin on details.


4 posted on 05/23/2009 6:44:43 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( Don't mess with the mockingbird! /\/\ http://tiny.cc/freepthis)
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.............. apologized on behalf of the church for whatever pain it had caused.


I apologize to the world and confess to the world to all the evil things the democrats have done................


5 posted on 05/23/2009 6:59:51 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple ( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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To: Alex Murphy

Interesting.

Thanks.


6 posted on 05/23/2009 7:05:12 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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Related humor:
As Catholic numbers decline, old church tries new tricks

Related reality:
"Confessional car" designed for tourists' needs

7 posted on 05/23/2009 7:27:39 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (Presbyterians often forget that John Knox had been a Sunday bowler.)
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This reminds me of a conversation I once had with a friend who, as deacon, gave the homily at Mass one Sunday. He had mentioned in the homily that as a deacon he was not able to hear confessions. I told he that he could indeed hear confessions. He just couldn’t give absolution.


8 posted on 05/23/2009 8:39:05 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler ("Mr. President, I support you but not your mission. I'm showing my patriotism through dissent.")
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To: smokingfrog
Art project? Cultural studies? I wonder if this was really sponsored by Campus Crusade for Christ? The story is kind of thin on details.

I am also a little suspicious simply because they are students at Columbia University. The left has successfully infiltrated many churches, and even started some, with the intent to discredit and destroy them and Christianity. If these kids are trying to overcome that and get back to the basics of Christianity I support them, yet, because the left is so devious, I can't rid my mind of the nagging possibilities of deceit.

9 posted on 05/23/2009 11:20:19 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Amen


10 posted on 05/23/2009 4:37:40 PM PDT by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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