Here’s a preview of a post that’s going to be coming later this year- can’t make it until I have more to post. This year, I have been experimenting by going to churches of different denominations- kind of a smaller scale version of what Suzanne Strempek Shea did for her book Sundays In America. One church I went to, a Vineyard church, had a contemporary Christian band playing during the service, and before the sermon, the pastor had the band play a song by the Decemberists that played into his sermon. It’s a really lovely song, and appropriate for this time of year.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KusWM9AKfZg]