Posted on 05/15/2024 6:03:20 PM PDT by Morgana
A 600-year-old church in southern Germany drew some 1,200 people to a Taylor Swift-themed worship service on Sunday, local media reported.
Heidelberg’s famous Church of the Holy Spirit, originally Catholic and now Protestant, hosted a liturgical service bearing the title “Anti-Hero — Taylor Swift Church Service,” in an effort to attract younger people, Deutsche Welle (DW) reported.
“The Church of the Holy Spirit has always been a place of encounter and exchange,” said Heidelberg Pastor Christof Ellsiepen. “That’s why a pop-music religious service fits so perfectly. With it, we are giving space to the questions and issues that occupy the younger generation.”
For his part, parish pastor Vincenzo Petracca underscored Swift’s attachment to Christianity in everyday life, highlighting her treatment of women’s rights, racism, and gender equality.
As if to back up the latter, Sunday’s service featured a rainbow banner hung behind the musicians, proclaiming that the church welcomes “all sizes, all colours, all cultures, all sexes, all beliefs, all religions, all ages, all types, all people.”
Sunday’s congregation, which skewed younger and more female than usual, was treated to a live performance of six Swift songs by Tine Weichmann — a singer originally from Hamburg and now a professor of church music in Heidelberg — and her band.
In what was described as one of the most “emotionally stirring” moments of the service, Weichmann and her band performed, “Soon You’ll Get Better,” a song Swift wrote for her mother, who had been diagnosed with cancer.
“Holy orange bottles, each night I pray to you,” read the lyrics. “Desperate people find faith, so now I pray to Jesus, too.”
Swift’s Christianity or lack thereof has been the topic of heated debate among U.S. Christians.
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So Catholic to Protestant to now full blown Heathen.
Sadly.
Soft core porn is cool in German churches. Who knew?
I guess it is, in fact, the end times.
when pews mean...farting in church
Couldn’t they at least go homegrown and have a Rammstein-Themed service?
They have been having these kind of church services here in America and I’ve been posting about them. Down right nuts if you ask me. I’d get up and walk out and can’t understand why people stay for that nonsense.
Tailor Who?
Exactly.
2 TIMOTHY 4:3
KJV
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
Ishtar worship is back.........
Taylor Slut Worship Week finally fills church
If she featured at one of our services, I’d be looking for a new church.
And I would not attend that particular service.
“Protestant” in Germany means the EKD, an amalgam of all the non-Catholic mainstream denominations, the German equivalent of the United Church of Canada or the NKK in Japan. Which means heretic liberal, of course.
Isn’t that what is meant by seeker sensitive?
when pews mean...farting in church
+++++++++++
We used to say: “He who farts in church must sit in his own pew.” I remember that phrase from childhood and it stuck with me.
Ich Verstehe nicht!
(I don’t get it!)
What next? Cardi-B unveils the Tabernacle during High Mass.
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