Comment 30399

By Jonathan Dalton (registered) | Posted April 23, 2009 at 09:22:27

I have to comment on Capitalists remark. I grew up in the church and had to witness first hand the exodus of inner city churches to the suburbs. It is a product of churchgoers like everyone else becoming disconnected from their neighbourhoods, living life on a larger geographic scale and becoming ambivalent to where their church is located. In any given city people will find the church that most closely matches their values but location is rarely a factor. People cross the city, even driving to other cities to get to the church that suits their fancy. This has destroyed the community aspect of church as its members are scattered across the city and rarely see eachother more than once a week.

What sets Living Hope apart from most suburban churches is the fact that most of its members actually live in the general area. In this sense they are closer to fulfilling the traditional role of the church as a neighbourhood institution than many of the old mainline churches occupying grandiose buildings in the downtown. Of course I think the location is awful, but there is much less of a suburban attitude there than most other places.

This is aside from the obvious, that for someone who works at a church, it's their job, and nobody is going to publicly criticise the place they work. Would you call me a hypocrite for working at a manufacturing plant on Appleby Line?

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